Al Jazeera on MSN

Iraq’s elections and Muqtada al-Sadr’s endgame of power

The Shia leader withdrew from the political process three years ago to position his bloc for a powerful return.
The New Arab

Egypt and Israel prepare Rafah opening as UN calls for Gaza aid

Israel’s military aid agency COGAT said on Thursday that preparations are ongoing with Egypt to open the major Rafah border ...

My hell at the hands of Hamas torturers: I was stripped, hung upside down, whipped, forced to squat for 24 hours and told I'd be made to watch my mother and sister ra…

Natour, a Gazan lawyer and co-founder of the anti-Hamas protest movement 'We Want to Live', has been arrested 20 times and ...
TASS Russian News Agency

Death toll in Gaza over ceasefire period up to 51 — TV

DOHA, October 19. /TASS/. More than 50 people have died in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israel’s operation after the ceasefire came in force, the Al Jazeera television channel reported, citing medics ...
The New Arab

Israel strikes southern Gaza, accuses Hamas of violating ceasefire

Hamas has rejected accusations by the US that the group was planning ’an imminent ceasefire violation’ in Gaza as it handed ...