DAMASCUS -- Syrian shelling on rebel-held areas east of the capital Damascus killed 28 people on Sunday, a monitor group reported.
The shelling targeted areas in the eastern countryside of Damascus, mainly the rebel stronghold of Douma, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Syria-Shelling-Death)
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BAGHDAD -- An air strike by U.S.-led coalition aircraft targeting a position of the terrorist Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Sunday killed 12 IS militants, a security source said.
The international warplanes bombarded a suspected car bomb making factory in the IS-held town of Heet, some 160 km west of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, destroying the target and leaving at least 12 IS militants killed, the source told Xinhua, citing intelligence report. (Iraq-IS-Airstrikes)
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KHARTOUM -- At least 17 people were killed and around 30 others injured in bloody tribal clashes in Sudan's South Darfur State, Sudan Tribune reported Sunday.
"Violent clashes broke out between Rizeigat and Miseria tribes in South Darfur state which resulted in the killing of at least 17 people and injuring of around 30 others, some of them in serious conditions," the report said. (Sudan-Tribe-Clashes)
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JERUSALEM -- Israel has agreed to release six Egyptian prisoners after Cairo set free last week an Israeli convicted of espionage, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting that all of the prisoners were serving terms in Israeli jails for criminal offenses, and none of them was suspected of carrying out attacks against Israel. Three of them have finished their sentences, and the other three will be released before the end of their prison terms. (Israel-Release-Egyptian prisoners) Enditem
Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, Dec. 13
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DAMASCUS -- Syrian shelling on rebel-held areas east of the capital Damascus killed 28 people on Sunday, a monitor group reported.
The shelling targeted areas in the eastern countryside of Damascus, mainly the rebel stronghold of Douma, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Syria-Shelling-Death)
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BAGHDAD -- An air strike by U.S.-led coalition aircraft targeting a position of the terrorist Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Sunday killed 12 IS militants, a security source said.
The international warplanes bombarded a suspected car bomb making factory in the IS-held town of Heet, some 160 km west of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, destroying the target and leaving at least 12 IS militants killed, the source told Xinhua, citing intelligence report. (Iraq-IS-Airstrikes)
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KHARTOUM -- At least 17 people were killed and around 30 others injured in bloody tribal clashes in Sudan's South Darfur State, Sudan Tribune reported Sunday.
"Violent clashes broke out between Rizeigat and Miseria tribes in South Darfur state which resulted in the killing of at least 17 people and injuring of around 30 others, some of them in serious conditions," the report said. (Sudan-Tribe-Clashes)
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JERUSALEM -- Israel has agreed to release six Egyptian prisoners after Cairo set free last week an Israeli convicted of espionage, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting that all of the prisoners were serving terms in Israeli jails for criminal offenses, and none of them was suspected of carrying out attacks against Israel. Three of them have finished their sentences, and the other three will be released before the end of their prison terms. (Israel-Release-Egyptian prisoners) Enditem
