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Israel Exchanges Fire With Syria Along Border
Tensions flare in the Golan Heights. Syria says it destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed into its territory from the border region Tuesday. But Israel claims the vehicle was hit on its side of the Golan ceasefire line, prompting Israeli forces to return fire into Syria. The defence minister said Israel was not intervening in Syria's civil war.
Reuters
05/21/2013
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Iraq Killing Surge Fuels Sectarian Fears
Residents of Kirkuk gaze at damage done by three roadside bombs at a livestock market early Tuesday. At least six were killed and another 10 were injured in this attack. Six others were killed in a separate assault also on Tuesday. They are the latest string of attacks that have rocked Iraq over the past 24 hours. More than 70 people were killed in bombings targeting Shi'ite Muslims across the country Monday.
Reuters
05/21/2013
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Car Bombs Target Shi'ites in Iraq, Killing More Than 70
A wave of attacks across Iraq targeting Shiite muslims has left more than 60 people dead on Monday. This footage obtained by Reuters out of Basra shows the aftermath of two car bomb attacks that killed more than a dozen people. No one is claiming responsibility so far. More than 200 people have been killed in attacks over the past week, mainly in Baghdad raising fears of a return to all-out sectarian civil conflict.
Reuters
05/20/2013
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Wave of Attacks Kills Scores in Iraq
A wave of attacks killed at least 86 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 230 and extending some of the worst sectarian violence the country has seen. (May 20)
Associated Press
05/20/2013
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Video Purports to Show Egyptian Hostages Making Plea For Their Lives
Egyptian hostages plea for their lives. Last week seven members of Egypt's security forces were kidnapped by militants in Sinai Now they beg for the president to rescue them. They say they can't take the torture anymore. They call on the government to release political detainees from Sinai so they can be freed. Reuters cannot independently confirm the content of the video, which was obtained from a social media website.
Reuters
05/20/2013
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Five Dead in Israel Bank Shootout
A gunman killed four people execution-style in an Israeli bank on Monday before shooting himself dead, Israeli media reports said, identifying him as a former paramilitary border policeman in debt to the bank. Police initially described the incident as a robbery but later said the assailant shot his victims, in a branch of Bank Hapoalim in the southern city of Beersheba, without demanding any money. He apparently knew them. Three of the dead were reported to have been bank employees.
Reuters
05/20/2013
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Thirty Hezbollah Fighters Killed in Syria - Activists
Smoke rises from what is said to be the Syrian town of Qusair after ferocious battles between rebels and Hezbollah fighters backing President Bashar al-Assad. In another video obtained from a social media website, unidentified rebel groups fire anti-aircraft guns, apparently on the town's outskirts. Reuters cannot independently verify the content of these videos. Syrian activists say rebels pushed back the attacking government forces, killing about 30 Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian troops.
Reuters
05/20/2013
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Iraq Bomb Blasts Leave More Than 30 Dead
Washing the blood off the streets - the clear-up begins after another deadly day of violence in Iraq. Here in Basra, a predominantly Shi'ite oil hub in the south, at least 11 people were killed when two car bombs exploded. One was detonated near a busy market and restaurants while the other went off in a bus terminal.
Reuters
05/20/2013
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Egyptian Police Protest at Gaza Border
Chanting anti-government slogans, Egyptian police and army soldiers hold a sit-in at the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip. The men are enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula on Thursday. They've blocked the border crossing since Friday to pressure Cairo to help free the men. Police also blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel on Sunday.
Reuters
05/20/2013
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Deadly Blasts Hits Iraq's Basra
Two car bombs exploded in the predominantly Shi'ite southern oil hub of Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, killing at least 11 people early on Monday (May 20), police and medics said. The first bomb struck the Hananiya neighborhood, near a busy market and restaurants, and the second was detonated inside a bus terminal in Saad Square. The blasts come amid an upsurge of violence in Iraq.
Reuters
05/20/2013
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Egyptian Police, Army Hold Sit-in
Egyptian police and army soldiers enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula held a sit-in at the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip on Sunday (May 19). Police have been blocking the Rafah crossing since Friday (May 17) in a bid to pressure the Cairo government to help free the men, security sources said. Police also blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel on Sunday.
Reuters
05/20/2013
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Protester Killed in Clashes
One demonstrator is dead and several others injured in violent clashes in the Tunisian capital Tunis over the weekend. Protesters supporting the hardline Islamist Ansar al-Sharia group fought with police after the government banned the group from demonstrating. Police fired tear gas and shots into the air to disperse the some 500 protesters who threw stones and rocks at police forces.
Reuters
05/20/2013
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