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Syrian army 'laying mines on Lebanese border' - Aljazeera.net
The official, who refused to be named, said on Thursday that the troops began planting the mines at dawn in an area facing two Lebanese villages - Knaysseh and Al-Hnayder - in an apparent bid to stem weapons smuggling along the porous border. ...
Oakland protesters reconvene for 'round two' - Aljazeera.net
An activist, who asked not to be named, told Al Jazeera police told her earlier on Wednesday that they were preparing for "round two" of street battles. After a "general assembly" process, in which decisions are made by consensus, the group announced ...
Tunisian newcomer spends big on campaign - Aljazeera.net
Sources within the party, who spoke on condition of anonymity for their own protection, told Al Jazeera that when the party was created in June, its leaders initially focused on recruiting young people at the forefront of the continuing protests ...
Two weeks in Bahrain's military courts - Aljazeera.net
One lawyer, who represents dozens of the convicted and who asked not to be named, told Al Jazeera the total numbers of how many have stood in front of military courts are not clear - but he estimates at least 600. Well over 1000 people have been ...
NATO paves way for fresh NTC push into Sirte - Aljazeera.net
"NATO has dropped a lot of bombs today," said one NTC fighter, who declined to give his name. "You can see the planes up above. They struck along here," he said, gesturing with his hand across the area south of the city centre. ...
Obama targets wealthy with 'Buffett Tax' - Aljazeera.net
A White House official, who declined to be named because the plan has not been officially announced, said the new rate is part of Obama's proposal for long-term deficit reduction that he will announce on Monday. Obama is going to call it the "Buffett ...
Renewed violence rocks Yemen - Aljazeera.net
Two of his fighters were wounded in the shelling, the source said. Elsewhere in Yemen, a 14-year-old boy was killed on Thursday and five other people were wounded during an exchange of fire that followed two blasts near a police station in the port ...
Al-Qaeda suspected over '9/11 bomb plot' - Aljazeera.net
Government officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said on Friday that at least two of the suspects are believed to be US citizens, the Associated Press news agency reported. Their primary mission was to explode a car bomb in either New York ...
End of summer brings bigger backlogs at Rafah - Aljazeera.net
The man, who asked not to be identified, said he paid the money to a middleman in Gaza. "They give the opportunities to people with good connections with Hamas, otherwise it's delay, delay, delay," Jamal Karam said. "If people have money, ...
Expats join Syrian revolution from afar - Aljazeera.net
He, like many others involved in supporting the movement in Syria, did not wish to be identified out of concern that he or those he remains in contact with in Syria will be targeted by the government. Activists he's been in touch with in Hama and Idlib ...
Large Libyan convoy 'arrives in Niger' - Aljazeera.net
The convoy contained between 200 and 250 military vehicles and included officers from Libya's southern army battalions, and likely crossed from Libya into Algeria before entering Niger, the sources said. The French military source said he had been told ...
Mexico's drugs war goes to school - Aljazeera.net
"To see the sorrow and the situation with the parents and students is the hardest part," said a teacher in Juarez, who did not want to be identified for fear of reprisal, during an interview in January. "I just want it to end," she told Al Jazeera. ...
Nakba Day during the Arab Spring - Aljazeera.net
The journalist, who asked to remain anonymous out of concern for his safety, also added that the government does have legitimate support from Palestinian refugees inside the country. Palestinian refugees are the result of attacks by Zionist militias ...
Dozen killed in Iraq violence - Aljazeera.net
And in the main northern city of Mosul, an Iraqi soldier was killed by a bomb blast at an army checkpoint, said a military officer who did not want to be identified. Thursday's violence comes after Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq threatened a campaign ...
Blasts mar Pakistan's 65th independence day - Aljazeera.net
Soldiers had just finished raising the Pakistani flag and were gathering for speeches on Sunday, when the rockets hit the base in Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal area, intelligence officials, who asked not to be identified, ...
Syrian army 'enters western coastal city' - Aljazeera.net
A Latakia resident confirmed the military's presence in al-Ramel to Al Jazeera, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. "There are tanks entering into Latakia, the area of south Ramel [and] heavy gunfire in all neighbourhoods. ...
London regroups after 'worst riots in years' - Aljazeera.net
"We know we have been victimised by this government, we know we are being neglected by the government," said a middle-aged man who declined to give his name. "How can you make one million [people] unemployed and expect us to sit down? ...
Mubarak trial to be aired on Egyptian TV - Aljazeera.net
A source close to Mubarak, who has been in hospital since April when he was first questioned, said on Thursday that the former president's lawyer would tell the court he was too sick to attend the trial. A cabinet statement said Interior Minister ...
'Bodies on the streets' in Syrian crackdown - Aljazeera.net
The resident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of government reprisals, said the neighbourhood had been subjected to heavy machine-gun fire since 4am. Activists said some of those being arrested had played leading roles in protests ...
Gunboats and gurkhas in the American Imperium - Aljazeera.net
After each drone strike, the Pakistani military rushes out an official who 'on the condition of anonymity' announces that all the dead were 'militants'. The press dutifully reports the numbers without asking why the claim should be trusted when the ...
Middle East Yemeni government 'shells Taiz' - Aljazeera.net
Meanwhile, a government official said on Sunday that some 54000 Yemenis had fled the southern province of Abyan since fighters took over its capital last month. He told a visiting UN delegation that the refugees had fled to neighbouring Aden, ...
Is the inter-Korean conflict going cyber? - Aljazeera.net
"There lies a big challenge in distinguishing between regular increase in traffic to the targeted website with the flooding of DDoS requests aimed at crashing the target's server," the engineer told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity due to ...
The Stream: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood - Aljazeera.net
One of the Brotherhood's younger members - who asked to remain anonymous due to what he called "extreme political sensitivities" within the group - said that the leaders of the Brotherhood are not concerned with a unified Egypt or a particularly ...
Explosions reported in Yemeni capital - Aljazeera.net
Elsewhere in Yemen, at least 20 people were killed in the southern city of Taiz after soldiers opened fire indiscriminately on a protest camp, a source said. A tenuous truce was reported on Sunday, but unrest erupted when security forces tried to storm ...
Yemen soldiers killed in 'al-Qaeda-held town' - Aljazeera.net
Elsewhere in the troubled country swept by anti-government protests, at least 20 people were killed in the southern city of Taiz after soldiers opened fire indscriminately on a protest camp, a source said. They did not give further details on the ...