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Egypt: Morsi supporters get life in prison

Eight supporters of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi were sentenced to life in prison for "illegal protests" against the death sentences of 14 Muslim Brotherhood leaders.

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Yemen war fuels dope-for-guns trade

Both sides in Yemen's bitter Sunni-Shi'ite divide—equally intolerant of hashish-smokers and khat-chewers—are turning to the dope trade to fund their arsenals.

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PKK announces deal with Turkish state

Turkey and the Kurdish rebel movement announced a landmark political deal that calls for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down arms and join the civil political process.

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Syria rebel gets five years for war crimes

A Swedish court sentenced Syrian refugee Mouhannad Droub to five years in prison after convicting him of abusing a captured member of dictator Bashar Assad's forces.

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Bahrain court convicts 11 of attack on police

A Bahraini court found 11 Shi'ities guilty  of a attack carried out last year and sentenced three to death. The others received life in prison and will be stripped of their citizenship.

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Turkish troops in Kobani incursion

Turkish forces crossed into Syria, officially to relocate an Ottoman historic site that had been threatened by ISIS—but also to intimidate the autonomist Kurds in control of the region?

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ISIS and the neocons: fearful symmetry?

The map that ISIS has drawn up of its proposed "caliphate" has internal borders closely mirroring the new borders that neocons seek to impose on the Middle East.

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Rights groups call for release of Syria activists

A coalition of international rights groups called for the release of three Syrian journalists who have been held without trial for three years under the country's Anti-Terrorism Law.

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Kurdish forces drive ISIS back from Kobani

Kurdish forces continue to drive ISIS back from Kobani, and have retaken more than 100 villages from the jihadists since pushing the last of them out of the urban center.