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Egypt court releases blogger on bail
Blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, imprisoned for violating Egypt's controversial protest law, was ordered released by a Cairo court—but still faces charges.
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Egypt prepares mass executions; US prepares aid
As an Egyptian court sentences 529 to death in an attack on police, US Congress mulls lifting restrictions that hold up a $1.5 billion aid package to the regime.
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Lebanon, Golan Heights at stake in Syria conflict
A suicide blast hit Lebanon's Bekaa Valley after Hezbollah fighters took a Syrian border town. Meanwhile, a Syrian opposition figure broaches selling the Golan for Israeli military aid.
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Amnesty accuses Syria government of war crimes
Amnesty International accused Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's forces of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity on Palestinian refugees at the Yarmouk camp.
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Syria: ISIS destroy Sufi shrine, impose jizya tax
Qaeda-aligned insurgent group ISIS destroyed a Sufi Muslim shrine in Syrian Kurdistan and announced a "jizya" tax on non-Muslims in their zones of control.
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UK: ex-Gitmo detainee in Syria terror bust
British counter-terrorism forces arrested Moazzam Begg in his hometown of Birmingham, along with three other individuals on terrorism offenses related to the war in Syria.
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Yemen: autonomy or separatism?
A presidential panel in Yemen released a plan to transform the country into a "federal state of six regions"—rejected by southern separatists as insufficient.
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Turkey: street clashes over cyber freedom
Riot police in Istanbul used water cannons against demonstrators in the latest protest against a bill that would increase government control over the Internet.
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Egypt: jihad against feloul?
With Field Marshal al-Sisi consolidating his rule in alliance with Mubarak-era "left-overs," a Qaedist insurgency is rapidly spreading from the Sinai to the rest of Egypt.
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HRW: Syria regime responsible for demolitions
Human Rights Watch reports that Syrian authorities deliberately demolished residential neighborhoods with explosives and bulldozers in Damascus and Hama over the last year.
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Syria: NATO intervention —against al-Qaeda?
A Turkish military incursion against Qaedist rebels in Syria comes amid claims that al-Qaeda affiliates have seized the country's oilfields and are planning attacks on the West.
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Egypt: Islamist jailed for anti-judiciary comments
A Cairo court sentenced Islamist leader and former presidential hopeful Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail to a year in prison for comments allegedly made at another trial.