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The conflict in Syria has displaced more than two-thirds of Palestinian refugees living in the country, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees said on Wednesday. "We have registered approximately 530,000 Palestinian refugees. We believe that almost all of them, certainly maybe 70-80 percent, are displaced from their normal...

Iraqis look at the remains of a car bomb that detonated in the Kamaliya area of eastern Baghdad on 20 May 2013. (Photo: AFP - Ali al-Saadi) Iraq's prime minister has ordered a shake-up of his military command after a week-long spike of militant attacks that has killed nearly 300 people, by far the highest toll since...

A man shows an empty bullet shell that he found outside a police station that was attacked and fired by gunmen to avenge the death of a colleague in an overnight incident on 15 May 2013 in the Libyan eastern city of Benghazi. (Photo: AFP - Abdullah Doma) A man shows an empty bullet shell that he found outside ...