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Palestinian refugee camp clash kills 1 in north Lebanon

A Palestinian from Syria was killed and another man wounded in an armed clash in the Beddawi refugee camp in the north Lebanon city of Tripoli overnight, the state-run National News Agency reported Friday. The man was identified as Abu Yasser, a refugee who came to Lebanon after fleeing the...

Blasts kill six, injure 21 in Baghdad, Diyala

At least six people were killed and 21 others were injured in several separate explosions in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and the eastern province of Diyala late Friday, security sources said. One person was killed and two others were injured when a bomb placed in a vehicle carrying a Sunni...

Wikileaks publishes over 60,000 Saudi diplomatic cables

 WikiLeaks is in the process of publishing more than 500,000 Saudi diplomatic documents to the Internet, the transparency website said Friday, a move that echoes its famous release of US State Department cables in 2010, AP reported.  WikiLeaks said in a statement that it has already...

Islamic State says shot down Iraqi fighter plane

Islamic State said on Thursday it had shot down an Iraqi fighter plane north of the city of Ramadi in Anbar Province. It was not immediately possible to confirm the claim made on one of Islamic State's Twitter accounts. A member of an anti-Islamic State Sunni force called Sahwa (Awakening) said...