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Ukrainian soldiers stand on their tanks at a checkpoint near the eastern Ukrainian city of Debalcevo, in Ukraine, August 3, 2014. (EPA/ROMAN PILIPEY)

Ukraine’s army on outskirts of rebel stronghold

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 3, 2014 | World

Donetsk, AP—Fighting raged Sunday on the western outskirts of Donetsk as the advancing Ukrainian army tried to seize control of the city, a rebel stronghold. In danger of being encircled, the separatists renewed their calls for Russia to send troops to their aid. To...

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Members of the Ukrainian State Emergency Service search for bodies in a field near the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 near the village of Hrabove, in Donetsk, on July 26, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/ BULENT KILIC)

UN rights chief: Flight 17 possible war crime

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 28, 2014 | World

Geneva, AP—The downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 may be a war crime, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Monday. Pillay, the UN’s top human rights official, called for a thorough investigation into the violation of international law...

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A woman takes a photograph of wreckage at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 near the village of Hrabove, Donetsk, on July 26, 2014. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin)

Fighting intensifies near MH17 crash site

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 27, 2014 | World

Donetsk, AP—Ukrainian armed forces mounted a major onslaught against pro-Russian separatist fighters on Sunday, in an attempt to gain control over the area where a Malaysia Airlines plane was downed earlier this month. Reports of the intensifying unrest prompted a...

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A Ukrainian policeman watches as a train carrying the remains of the victims of Malaysia Airlines MH17 arrives in the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine on July 22, 2014. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)

Bodies, black boxes handed over from Ukraine crash site

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 22, 2014 | World

Donetsk, Reuters—A train carrying the remains of some of the nearly 300 victims of the Malaysia Airlines plane downed over Ukraine was heading for Ukrainian government territory on Tuesday as a separatist leader handed over the plane’s black boxes to Malaysian...

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Flowers and soft toys on the ground at the main crash site of the Boeing 777 Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which crashed over the eastern Ukraine region, near Grabovo, some 100 km east of Donetsk, Ukraine, 20 July 2014. (EPA/IGOR KOVALENKO)

Ukraine workers find more bodies at crash site

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 21, 2014 | World

Hrabove, Ukraine, AP—Rescuers retrieved more bodies on Monday in the sprawling fields of east Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed, killing all 298 people aboard. The chaotic rescue effort, which was marred by an outage in the refrigerated train that...