Twin suicide bombings killed at least 47 people in Iraq on Sunday, Iraqi police told Al Jazeera. The bombings were the deadliest in a series of attacks across the country that were aimed at the Sunni Sahwa militia, also known as Awakening Councils, that work with government forces to fight al-Qaida in Iraq.

At least 59 people have been killed and more than 130 injured in a train collision in eastern India, according to hospital officials.

The suicide rate among US soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan has escalated to a record high, with an average of one suicide per day in June.According to US Army statistics, a total of 32 soldiers took their own lives last month, making it the worst month on record for Army suicides.Twenty-one were on active […]

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq: Guests leapt desperately to their deaths from upper-floor windows as a fire tore through a hotel in northern Iraq, killing 30 people, 14 of them foreigners, police and medics said on Friday.

A Libyan aid ship originally bound for the Gaza Strip has been diverted to a port in Egypt after the Israeli navy warned the vessel against trying to break an Israeli blockade on the Palestinian coastal territory.

JERUSALEM – Israel will never say sorry for defending itself, a senior government official said on Monday after Turkey demanded an apology for a deadly commando raid on an aid convoy to Gaza.

BRUSSELS, (PIC)– The Brussels-based European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza said that there has been a large turnout for Freedom Flotilla 2, in terms of activists requesting to participate, and in terms of the number of ships.

GAZA, (PIC)– Relief aid and medicines from the Aman Palestine Institute in Malaysia with an estimated worth of $100,000US arrived in Gaza on Sunday morning via the Egyptian Rafah crossing. The relief aid was accompanied by a delegation including 12 Malaysian notable personalities, consisting of representatives of Malaysian NGOs and television journalists, who were not […]

The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), during the closing session of its General Assembly, announced its resolution to purchase a relief ship that will sail in its name.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– “Israel won’t apologize to Turkey over the Gaza aid flotilla clashes and the possibility of giving compensation to those injured in the incident is not up for discussion,” Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday.