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#Egypt police arrest one after small blast near Cairo military hospital
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A limited explosion occurred late Wednesday inside a car near a Cairo military hospital, Egypt’s interior ministry said, hours before the first anniversary of deposed president Mohammed Mursi’s military ouster. Police arrested one of two men who were in the car while the second managed to escape, interior ministry spokesman Hani Abdel Latif told AFP, adding that the cause of the blast was still unknown and there were no casualties. A security official however told AFP that a small bomb had exploded under the car near an Air Force hospital in a northern Cairo neighborhood. read more

#Israel launches 12 overnight air raids on #gaza_strip, injuring two
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Israeli air raids hit the Gaza Strip 12 times overnight, wounding two people after rockets fired from the Gaza Strip on Saturday hit an industrial zone in in southern Occupied #Palestine, setting a building on fire but without causing casualties, police said. The strikes late on Saturday and early on Sunday targeted sites across the coastal enclave, slightly wounding two people and damaging property in Gaza City, an interior ministry spokesman in Gaza said. read more

Iraqi helicopters attack jihadi convoy across Syrian border
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Iraqi army helicopters attacked a jihadi convoy inside eastern #syria on Sunday as it tried to approach the border, killing at least eight people, an interior ministry spokesman said. “The army struck eight tanker trucks in Wadi Suwab inside Syrian territory as they were trying to enter Iraqi territory to provide the Islamic State of #Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) with fuel,” Brigadier General Saad Maan said. It was the first time Iraq’s military has said it carried out an attack in Syria, and Maan said “there was no coordination with the Syrian regime” over the strike. read more

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#Gaza Strip frees seven prisoners in effort to heal #Hamas-Fatah rift
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Gaza’s Hamas government freed seven imprisoned #Fatah members Wednesday, as part of efforts to mend relations between the Islamist movement and its West Bank-based Palestinian rival, officials said. “The release of these condemned men comes as part of the prime minister’s decisions to strengthen national reconciliation,” Hamas interior ministry spokesman Islam Shahwan told reporters. “More positive steps will follow,” he added, without elaborating. read more

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