Somalia truck bombing toll over 300 as funerals continue

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Turkish doctors transport a critically wounded man on a stretcher to a waiting Turkish air ambulance to airlift injured patients for treatment in Turkey, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, Oct,16, 2017. The death toll from Saturday’s truck bombing in Somalia’s capital now exceeds 300, the director of an ambulance service said Monday, as the country reeled from the deadliest single attack. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

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Turkey hunts for answers, mourns dead after blasts kill 38

Caskets of a bomb victim during a memorial in Istanbul, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, for police officers killed outside the Besiktas football club stadium Vodafone Arena late Saturday. Family members, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ministers and colleagues attended the memorial as Turkey declared a national day of mourning Sunday after twin blasts in Istanbul killed dozens of people and wounded many others near a soccer stadium. Turkish authorities have banned distribution of images relating to the Istanbul explosions within Turkey. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

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Bombing at Egypt’s main Coptic Christian cathedral kills 25

A worker cleans the scene inside St. Mark Cathedral in central Cairo, following a bombing, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016. The blast at Egypt’s main Coptic Christian cathedral killed dozens of people and wounded many others on Sunday, according to Egyptian state television, making it one of the deadliest attacks carried out against the religious minority in recent memory. (Omar El-Hady via AP)

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Fresh wave of airstrikes hit Syria’s Aleppo

Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian military’s General Staff speaks at a briefing at the Russian Defense Ministry’s headquarters in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. Rudskoi said that Russian warplanes in Syria haven’t targeted populated areas and only struck militants’s facilities near Aleppo. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

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Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of bombing its embassy in Yemen

© AFP / Fayez Nureldine | A picture taken on November 16, 2015 shows a Saudi F-15 fighter jet landing at the Khamis Mushayt military airbase, as the Saudi army conducts operations over Yemen.

Saudi jets “deliberately” struck Iran’s embassy in Yemen in an air raid that wounded staff, Tehran’s foreign ministry said Thursday, as tensions between the two regional powers mounted

“This deliberate action by Saudi Arabia is a violation of all international conventions that protect diplomatic missions,” foreign ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari was quoted as saying by state television.

“The Saudi government is responsible for the damage caused and for the situation of members of staff who were injured,” Ansari added, without specifying when the alleged strike took place.

(AFP)

 

Israeli jets carry out strikes north of Damascus — reports

Illustrative photo of an IAF F-15 fighter jet flying over Israel during the 'Blue Flag' exercise at Ovda Airfield near Eilat on October 21, 2015. (Israeli Air Force)

Illustrative photo of an IAF F-15 fighter jet flying over Israel during the ‘Blue Flag’ exercise at Ovda Airfield near Eilat on October 21, 2015. (Israeli Air Force)

Raids said to target four trucks loaded with ballistic missiles; no immediate reports of casualties

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Report: IAF hits Syria arms convoy headed for Hezbollah

An Israeli fighter jet takes off during a training sortie in February 2010. (photo credit: Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

An Israeli fighter jet takes off during a training sortie in February 2010. (photo credit: Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Israel declines to comment on claims in Lebanese media of attack over Kalamoun Mountains region

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Several killed as rebels barrage Damascus with rockets

A still from a video purporting to show smoke in Damascus after multiple rocket strikes on February 5, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

A still from a video purporting to show smoke in Damascus after multiple rocket strikes on February 5, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

Army of Islam leader vows to rain down mortars on Syrian capital as revenge for government airstrikes on rebel areas

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Maliki confirms Syrian planes have bombed Isis positions in Iraq

group of five men watch the iraqi prime minister on television in a baghdad cafe

Watching Nouri al-Maliki’s speech on television at a cafe in Baghdad. The PM said he had not requested the air strikes. Photograph: Karim Kadim/AP

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