Wednesday, 19 June 2013 07:58
A loud explosion has hit a military site in the Syrian port city of Latakia, both state media and opposition sources said.
Middle East

A loud explosion has hit a military site in the Syrian port city of Latakia, both state media and opposition sources said.

Egypt’s tourism minister has resigned a day after President Mohamed Morsi appointed a new governor to Luxor province from an Islamist party linked to a massacre of holidaymakers in the temple city.

Several people have been killed and wounded in Yemen's northern Saada town when a suicide bomber riding a motorbike blew himself up in a busy market, a defence ministry statement said.

Two people have reportedly been killed in armed clashes between supporters of a pro-Hezbollah group and followers of a Sunni cleric in south Lebanon, local media has said.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that his government will send representatives to Qatar soon to discuss peace with the Taliban, a day after it was reported that the group was set to open its political office in Doha.

Two suicide bombers have blown themselves up in and around a Shia mosque in the Iraqi capital, killing 13 people and wounding 32, police said.

Taliban will open a political office in the Gulf state of Qatar on Tuesday, MWC News has learned.

Four more people have died from the MERS virus in Saudi Arabia, bringing the death toll from the SARS-like virus in the kingdom to 32, the health ministry has said.

Violence continues in Syria's civil war, as Syrian state television and residents report that an explosion has shaken a Damascus neighbourhood that is home to several embassies and a military airport.

A car bomb has struck near the Syrian northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 60 members of President Bashar al-Assad's troops, activists have said.
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