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Saudi-Led Airstrikes on Yemen Rebel-Run Prison Kill over 100

Yemen was reeling Monday from the deadliest attack so far this year after multiple airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition hit a detention center run by the country's rebels the previous day, killing over 100 people and wounding dozens.

By midday, rescue and search teams retrieved 86 bodies but continued to search for more in the rubble of a building complex in southwestern Dhamar province that the Iran-backed rebel Houthis were using as a detention center, Yemen's Red Crescent said.

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Saudi-Led Coalition Says Launched Air Strikes against Huthi Target

The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen said on Sunday that it launched air strikes against a Huthi military target south of the capital Sanaa, in an attack the rebels alleged killed dozens of people.

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Russia Accuses U.S. of Risking Idlib Truce with Strike on Jihadists

Russia accused the United States Sunday of having "compromised" a fragile ceasefire in the Syrian province of Idlib by launching a missile strike against jihadist leaders there.

The Americans hit the region "without advance notice to Russia or Turkey," which both have troops on the ground in Idlib, the Russian military said. It described the attack as "indiscriminate."

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Tunisia Reveals Final Candidates for Presidential Poll

Tunisia's electoral commission has announced a final list of 26 presidential candidates to stand in a September 15 poll to elect a successor to late leader Beji Caid Essebsi.

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Netanyahu Renews Pledge to Annex West Bank Settlements

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday renewed his pledge to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as he sought to shore up right-wing support ahead of a September 17 election.

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40 Dead as U.S. Strikes Meeting of 'al-Qaida Leaders' in Syria

U.S. forces attacked jihadist leaders in northwestern Syria on Saturday, the Pentagon said, in what a battlefield monitor called a missile strike that left at least 40 dead.

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Air Strikes Stop in Syria's Idlib after Truce Announced

Air strikes on Syria's northwestern Idlib region stopped on Saturday after a Russian-backed ceasefire went into effect following four months of deadly bombardment, a war monitor said. 

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Netanyahu Tells Macron 'Wrong Time' for Talks with Iran

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday to avoid any rapprochement with Iran, amid European efforts to rescue the embattled 2015 nuclear deal, his office said.

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UAE Air Raids Raise Tensions with Yemen Govt.

The United Arab Emirates has confirmed it launched air strikes on Yemen's interim capital Aden, after furious accusations from the internationally recognized government which has lost control of the city to UAE-backed separatists.

In the face of charges it targeted Yemeni government troops, Abu Dhabi said it acted in self-defense against "terrorist militias" threatening the Saudi-led military coalition against Huthi rebels in which the UAE is a key partner.

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IS Claims Yemen Attack against Separatists in Aden

The Islamic State group on Friday claimed an attack that killed three separatists in the southern Yemeni city of Aden.

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