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Egypt's new president Mohammed Morsi - Reuters - June 16, 2012
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood blames Sinai attack on Mossad

The Muslim Brotherhood said on its website that Sunday's attack in Sinai on an Egyptian army outpost was an Israeli attempt to thwart President Morsi; Israel's Foreign Ministry denies the claims.

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Free Syrian Army - Youtube - 5.8.2012
WATCH: Syria rebels release video showing kidnapped 'Iranian mercenaries'

Iranian media reports attack on bus filled with pilgrims in Syria; Free Syrian Army takes responsibility for attack, says those taken included IRG officers.

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Laila Hassan, director of Assiwar, the Feminist Arab Movement in Support of Victims of Sexual Abuse.
Financial woes push Israel's only shelter for Arab sex abuse victims to the brink

The Haifa Crisis Center is under threat after the Social Affairs Ministry refused to confirm its annual budget allocation to the center.

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  • Israel's only facility for Arab victims of sexual abuse faces closure
Syria rebels - Reuters - 3.8.2012
Free Syrian Army kidnapped Iranian pilgrims near Damascus, report says

Iranian semi-official Fars news agency quotes Syrian official as identifying the assailants in the reported attack on a bus near Damascus as being members of the main opposition faction.

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Members of the Free Syrian Army chant slogans against Syrian President Bashar Assad in Azzaz, Aleppo
Report: Syria rebels control 60% of Aleppo in wake of fierce clashes

Rebel leader tells Al-Arabiya news network that thousands of Iranian soldiers have arrived in Syria over the last several days in order to assist the regime.

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Bashar Assad
Assad: Syria's fate hinges on the battle with rebels

In a written statement, Syrian President Bashar Assad tells his soldiers: 'You are the trustees of the people's values.'

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Russian Mi-24 helicopter gunships.
Report: Syrian rebels acquired surface-to-air missiles

NBC News reported rebels obtained some two dozen missiles, delivered through Turkey; rebel army denies report.

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  • Syrian rebel commander says Aleppo to be liberated 'within days'
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Lebanese women's dilemma: A wrinkle-free face or boycotting Israel

Israeli products are reaching Lebanon via indirect routes, bearing the brand names of American and European firms, and even firms from Dubai.

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A Free Syrian Army member in Aleppo
Syria rebels say world must intervene to stop Aleppo massacre

Some 200,000 people have fled Aleppo in the last two days of battles between the Assad regime and rebel forces, according to United Nations estimates.

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Syria Aleppo - AP - 27.7.2012
Russia defends Assad's Aleppo offensive amid reports of artillery, aerial attacks

Sergey Lavrov says beleaguered Syrian president can't be expected to hand over country to rebel hands; rights group says Assad forces using heavy arms in Syria's second largest city.

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Members of the Free Syrian Army chant slogans against Syrian President Bashar Assad in Azzaz, Aleppo
Fighting continues in Aleppo as more Syrian diplomats defect

Activists claim Syrian forces indiscriminately using airborne attacks and heavy artillery in Syria’s second largest city.

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  • Russia defends Assad's Aleppo offensive amid reports of artillery, aerial attacks
Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser July 14, 2006 (AP)
Hezbollah releases video of abduction of two Israeli soldiers that led to Second Lebanon War

Video released by the Beirut-based Al Mayadeen television shows Hezbollah operatives penetrating the Israel-Lebanon border and taking over the jeep of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.

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A screenshot taken from a YouTube video showing an IDF lieutenant head-butting a Palestinian.
WATCH: IDF officer head-butts Palestinian youth in the face in Hebron

Human rights NGO B'Tselem reported the incident to army authorities; IDF in response: film does not show the commander being violently assaulted.

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Palestinians wave green Islamic flags that represent Hamas
Hamas pressure behind Egypt's move to ease Gaza blockade

Even as some officials initially denied any easing, Cairo's airport officials said seven Gazans were allowed into Egypt by dawn Monday without the usual restrictions.

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An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube on July 22, 2012.
WATCH: Syrian rebels release video of witness in murder of ex-Lebanese president Hariri

Witness, Hussam Hussam, is a Lebanese citizen captured during takeover of intelligence headquarters in Damascus; says he has groundbreaking intelligence on the murder.

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Syrian officials.
Assad nowhere to be seen as fighting continues in Damascus

Report: Rebel army forms special unit trained to secure Syria's chemical weapon sites.

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Israeli victims of the Bulgaria suicide attack.
Israel names five victims of Bulgaria terror attack

The bodies of Maor Harush and Elior Price from Acre, Itzik Kolangi and Amir Menashe from Petah Tikva and Kochava Shriki from Rishon Letzion were returned to Israel early Friday morning.

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Omar Suleiman sits during an interview with Reuters at his office in Cairo on April 14, 2012.
Omar Suleiman, the spy chief who mediated between Israel and Hamas

Mubarak's former right-hand man, who died Thursday, was one of the main mediators in the Gilad Shalit deal and often worked to calm violent clashes between Israel and Hamas.

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The archaeological dig at the base of the wall in Acre where remnants of an ancient port were found.
2,000-year old port discovered in Acre

Archaeologists believe warships docked there in the 2nd century B.C.E.

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Car bomb in Damascus, July 13, 2012.
Damascus fighting heaviest since Syrian conflict began, activists say

WATCH: Gunfire heard Sunday in several neighborhoods of the capital, protesters blocked roads to protest government offensives in those districts.

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Report: Syria ambassador in Baghdad defects, joins rebel forces

For the first time, member of Syria's diplomatic corps defects in protest of Assad regime; thus far only army generals, and defense officials have defected.

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Eden Natan Zada's parents holding up his picture in 2005.
State opposes new probe in Shfaram shooting

Despite admitting Jewish attacker's motive was never investigated.

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Palestinian prisoners at the Megido Prison.
Justice Ministry urges early release for Israeli Arabs convicted of terror

Among those proposed for release is Karim Yunis, who, with his cousin, Maher Yunis, was convicted of involvement in the 1980 murder of a 20-year-old soldier, Avraham Blumberg.

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Bedouin children of the Jahalin tribe near the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, June 16, 2012.
European Parliament condemns Israel's policy toward Bedouin population

Human rights groups hail resolution as unprecedented; European Parliament calls on Israel to withdraw government-approved plan to regulate Bedouin communities in Negev.

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Syria's besieged Assad finds unlikely allies: Israel and an opposition leader

Israel's alleged attack on a munitions convoy bound for Lebanon may have inadvertently thrown the Syrian president a lifeline, just as rebel Syrian groups seek a nonviolent solution to the civil war.

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