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An armed man looks at charred debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove in eastern Ukraine, on July 20, 2014.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Rebels to give MH17 black boxes to aviation group

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 20, 2014 | World

Torez, Ukraine, AP—Rebels have recovered the black boxes from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and will hand them over to the International Civil Aviation Organization, a rebel leader said Sunday. Alexander Borodai also said the bodies recovered from the crash site...

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People inspect the damages at the site of a reported barrel-bomb attack by Syrian government forces in the northern city of Aleppo on July 20, 2014. (AFP Photo/AMC/Zein Al-Rifai)

More than 700 killed in Syria as ISIS tightens grip on east

by Paula Astih | Jul 20, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—More than 700 people were killed in Syria over the course of Thursday and Friday, in what activists say were the bloodiest 48 hours of fighting in the conflict to date. The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), Rami Abdul...

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Smoke billows from the site of clashes on the road leading to the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli, on July 20, 2014.
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Three killed as Libyan militias fight over airport

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 20, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, AP—Rival Libyan militias battled for control the capital’s international airport Sunday, fighting that killed at least three people, a security official said. The week-long fight over the airport is being waged by a powerful militia from the western city...

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Tunisian military band members perform during a symbolic funeral for soldiers killed by terrorists in the Chaambi Mountains earlier in the week, at the independence martyrs’ quarter in the Sejoumi cemetery in the capital Tunis on July 18, 2014. (AFP Photo/Fethi Belaid)

Tunisia arrests 63 terror suspects, tightens security around militant hideouts

by Monji Saidani | Jul 20, 2014 | Middle East

Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat—Tunisian security forces have arrested 63 terror suspects in the wake of last week’s terrorist attack which left over a dozen army soldiers dead, an official spokesman said on Saturday. In a statement, the Ministry of Interior said it had...

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A Palestinian man carries a boy, who medics said was wounded during heavy Israeli shelling at the Shejaia district, at a hospital in Gaza on July 20, 2014. (Reuters/Suhaib Salem)

At least 40 dead in Israeli attack on Gaza district: hospital

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 20, 2014 | Middle East

Gaza, Reuters—At least 40 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in a Gaza neighborhood, where bodies were strewn in the street and thousands fled toward a hospital packed with wounded, witnesses and health officials said. The mass casualties in the...