Two policemen and two suspected gunmen have been killed in the Saudi town of Buraida, north of the capital Riyadh, in a security operation linked to an earlier shooting in the east of the country.
Six people were also arrested on Tuesday in several other raids across the country, hours after five people were killed and nine others injured late on Monday in the Eastern Province.
An interior ministry spokesman said security forces raided several places in the cities of Riyadh, al-Ahsa, al-Khobar and throughout the Eastern Province, and apprehended those suspected of being involved in the shooting.
Referring to Monday's attack in the town of al-Dawla in the city of al-Ahsa, Major General Mansour Al-Turki said: "As a group of citizens was leaving a building ... three masked men opened fire at them with machine guns and pistols."
Deadly security raid in Saudi after shooting - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
Tuesday, 4 November 2014
Monday, 3 November 2014
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"Abandoning Aleppo would condemn 300,000 men, women and children to a terrible choice: the murderous siege of the regime's bombs or the barbarity of the Islamic State terrorists," Fabius wrote.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/middle-east-updates/1.624475
Sunday, 2 November 2014
Bangladesh party chief to hang for war crimes
Court upholds death penalty for Mohammad Kamaruzzaman for atrocities committed during war of independence from Pakistan.
Bangladesh party chief to hang for war crimes - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English
Dozens killed in Pakistan-India border blast - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English
The Indian government requested the flag-lowering ceremony, which attracts spectators of people on both sides of the border, be suspended for at least three days.
Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder, reporting from Islamabad, said that eight members of the same family had been killed in the explosion.
"The ceremony normally has a very festive atmosphere and it seems that there were larger crowds than normal because it was a Sunday. We have been told the death toll is likely to rise," he added.
Dozens killed in Pakistan-India border blast - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English
When the bomber saw that there was very strict checking at the security checkpoint, he decided to detonate his explosives as he began to pass through it. |
"The ceremony normally has a very festive atmosphere and it seems that there were larger crowds than normal because it was a Sunday. We have been told the death toll is likely to rise," he added.
Dozens killed in Pakistan-India border blast - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English
ISIL 'kills scores' in Iraqi province
Women and children were said to be among those executed over the past 10 days in western Iraq's Anbar province which has been largely overrun by ISIL.
Accounts varied as to the number and timings of the executions in Anbar, but all sources spoke of more than 200 people murdered in recent days.
Police Colonel Shaaban al-Obaidi told the AFP news agency that more than 200 people were killed, while Faleh al-Essawi, deputy head of Anbar provincial council, put the toll at 258.
Canada joins campaign
News of the killings came as Canada conducted air strikes on ISIL positions in Iraq for the first time on Sunday.
"Today's strike demonstrates our government's firm resolve to tackle the threat of terrorism and to stand with our allies against ISIL's atrocities against innocent women, children and men," Canadian Defence Minister Rob Nicholson said in a statement.
ISIL 'kills scores' in Iraqi province - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
Accounts varied as to the number and timings of the executions in Anbar, but all sources spoke of more than 200 people murdered in recent days.
Police Colonel Shaaban al-Obaidi told the AFP news agency that more than 200 people were killed, while Faleh al-Essawi, deputy head of Anbar provincial council, put the toll at 258.
Canada joins campaign
News of the killings came as Canada conducted air strikes on ISIL positions in Iraq for the first time on Sunday.
"Today's strike demonstrates our government's firm resolve to tackle the threat of terrorism and to stand with our allies against ISIL's atrocities against innocent women, children and men," Canadian Defence Minister Rob Nicholson said in a statement.
ISIL 'kills scores' in Iraqi province - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
Algeria turns 'deaf ear' to border dispute
The border between Morocco and Algeria, which runs for about 1,600km, is one of the longest closed frontiers in the world. Algeria shut its land border with Morocco in 1994 after Rabat imposed visa regulations on Algerian visitors in the wake of a terrorist attack on the Atlas Asni Hotel in Marrakech. At the time,Morocco suspected Algiers was behind the bombing.
"Rabat expected Algiers to slap visa requirements on Moroccans, but the kingdom could not imagine that Algeria would also retaliate by closing the border crossings," Abdelaziz Rahabi, who served as the Algerian ambassador in Spain at the time, told Al Jazeera. "Algeria reacted firmly as the country was going through a rough patch. Actually, 1994 was one of the bloodiest years of the black decade [when a civil war raged between the government and armed groups]."
Since then, checkpoints, on both sides of the border, have been closed and controls tightened. The two countries marked the 20th anniversary of the closure of their common border this year by building a barbed-wire fence, starting from the beach, under the pretext of fighting both terrorism and trafficking. "It is expected to separate the entire frontier," a young guard, posted in Marsa Ben M'hdi beach, told Al Jazeera in an interview last month. So far, the fence stretches about 40km along the border.
Algeria turns 'deaf ear' to border dispute - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
"Rabat expected Algiers to slap visa requirements on Moroccans, but the kingdom could not imagine that Algeria would also retaliate by closing the border crossings," Abdelaziz Rahabi, who served as the Algerian ambassador in Spain at the time, told Al Jazeera. "Algeria reacted firmly as the country was going through a rough patch. Actually, 1994 was one of the bloodiest years of the black decade [when a civil war raged between the government and armed groups]."
Since then, checkpoints, on both sides of the border, have been closed and controls tightened. The two countries marked the 20th anniversary of the closure of their common border this year by building a barbed-wire fence, starting from the beach, under the pretext of fighting both terrorism and trafficking. "It is expected to separate the entire frontier," a young guard, posted in Marsa Ben M'hdi beach, told Al Jazeera in an interview last month. So far, the fence stretches about 40km along the border.
Algeria turns 'deaf ear' to border dispute - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
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