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Hospital struggles with Mosul's injured and its dead

The hospital in Qayara sometimes receives so many dead bodies that they do not fit in the refrigerator unit and have to be left in the corridors. Inside the mortuary, the dead are simply put on the floor because there are no containers, sometimes piled one on top of the other in a gruesome...

Motorcycle bomb wounds 16 outside Egypt police center

A booby-trapped motorcycle exploded outside an Egyptian police training center on Saturday, wounding 16 people, the interior ministry said. The apparent attack in the Nile Delta city of Tanta wounded 13 policemen and three civilian passersby, the ministry said in a statement. Extremists...

FSA fighters take new ground from ISIS in Syrian desert

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army units pressed new gains against ISIS in a desert area east of Damascus, taking two bastions and strategic hilltops, commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Younes al-Salameh, spokesman for Jaish Osoud al-Sharqiya, or the Army of East Lions, mostly tribesmen, said they...

UK police arrest 12 at London protest, block clashes

British police have arrested 12 people and are taking steps to prevent clashes between far-right groups and anti-fascist demonstrators in London. London's Metropolitan Police imposed conditions on the march and rally Saturday by Britain First and the English Defense League, which is...

Syrians flee Raqqa 'hell' as US-backed assault nears

 In a muddy camp in northern Syria, civilians who fled Raqqa said fear of an expected U.S.-backed assault on the ISIS bastion was reaching a fever pitch. This week, hundreds of civilians escaped Raqqa and headed north to the camp in Ain Issa, in territory controlled by the Syrian...

Russian Foreign Ministry takes poke fun at hacker scandal

Need some election interference? The Russian Foreign Ministry is ready to help – or so it says on April Fools' Day. On Saturday, the ministry posted on its Facebook page an audio file of the purported new automated telephone switchboard message for Russian embassies. "To arrange a call...

'Impeccable' Messi, Pique miss Granada trip

Barcelona boss Luis Enrique claimed Lionel Messi's behavior toward referees is "impeccable" despite the Argentine racking up suspensions for club and country. Messi is banned for the first time in five seasons for Sunday's La Liga trip to Granada just days after being slapped with a...

Paris Pompidou Center museum shut by security guard strike

The Pompidou Center modern art museum – one of the biggest tourist draws in the French capital – will remain closed this weekend because of a week-long strike by security guards, its management said. Around 100 guards walked out on Monday over a new law which forces them to become civil...

Tunisians irked by slow progress on civil liberties

Tunisian activists say they are frustrated by the slow progress on reforms to improve civil liberties six years after an uprising calling for more freedoms in the North African country. The 2011 revolution that toppled longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ushered in a new era of freedom...

British role in European security 'unconditional'

Britain's contribution to European security is "unconditional", Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told a French newspaper, denying the government had made a veiled threat to reduce cooperation if there was no post-Brexit trade deal. Prime Minister Theresa May said in a letter to the European...

3 killed during raid on Bangladesh militant den

Three people including a woman were killed when Bangladesh security forces stormed an Islamist militant hideout Saturday, police said, as the Muslim-majority nation fights to contain a wave of extremist attacks. The incident was the latest battle against militants in recent days, which have...

Iran rejects US terror claim by Mattis, blames Saudi

 Iran rejected an allegation by U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis that it was "the primary exporter of terrorism" and said on Saturday that the main source was U.S. ally Saudi Arabia. "Some countries led by America are determined to ignore the main source of Takfiri-Wahhabi terrorism...

Evacuations of opposition fighters resume in Syria's Homs

Syrian state TV says scores of opposition fighters and their families have left the central city of Homs after being evacuated from the last rebel-held neighborhood. The TV says 350 people boarded 22 buses that later moved toward the country's north in the third evacuation from al-Waer...