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Syria arrests terrorists responsible for Homs massacre
The Syrian army has reportedly arrested a number of terrorists responsible for the massacre of civilians in the restive city of Homs, Press TV reports.
At least 15 civilians, among them a woman with her four children, were killed after armed gangs stormed the Karm al-Louz neighborhood of Homs on Tuesday. This was the second civilian massacre in Homs in recent days.
At least 45 people, including women and children, were tortured and killed in Karm el-Zaytoun on Sunday night.
Syria’s Information Minister Adnan Mahmoud has said that terrorist groups carried out the massacre in the Karm el-Zaytoun neighborhood to tarnish the image of the Syrian government.
Meanwhile, Syrian troops have pulled out the bodies of several army soldiers from the sewage system in the Ashireh neighborhood of Homs, who were killed by terrorist groups earlier.
Heavy clashes have also been reported in the southern city of Dara'a.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March and many people, including security forces, have lost their lives in the violence.
The West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of killing the protesters. But Damascus blames ''outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups'' for the unrest, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad
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Three prominent members of main Syrian opposition group have broken away, accusing the group of serving the interests of foreign countries.
According to a Syrian National Council (SNC) official, Haitham al-Maleh, Kamal al-Labwani and rights activist Catherine al-Telli left the main opposition bloc due to their "disagreements" with the SNC.
Al-Labwani, however, said that they resigned because they did not want to be "accomplices to the massacre of the Syrian people.'' He also accused head of SNC Burhan Ghalioun of running the organization autocratically.
The SNC is "linked to foreign agendas which aim to prolong the battle while waiting ... for the country to be dragged into a civil war," said al-Labwani, adding that "There is no council, it's an illusion."
He also said that many more will quit the council in the coming days.
Al-Maleh said he was quitting over lack of cooperation in the council and al-Telli cited the SNC's "inefficiency" on "certain personalities and political trends" as the reason for her resignation.
"There is no transparency and there is no respect for other opinions. They aren't given the work the attention that it needs to fulfill the ambitions of the Syrian people," al-Maleh said.
Meanwhile UN-Arab League's envoy Kofi Annan has said he received a response from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to his proposals aimed at ending months of unrest in the Arab nation. Damascus had previously said no political solution would be found while terrorist groups remained active in the country.
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Twenty US soldiers involved in Kandahar killings
An Afghan committee says that up to 20 US soldiers have been involved in the Sunday killing of at least 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar Province.
The committee or fact-finding mission has been set up by the Afghan Parliament to investigate the killing of at least 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar’s Panjwayi district.
According to the head of the mission, after probing the circumstances and speaking to witnesses and locals, it was concluded that the crime could not have been committed by a single soldier.
Seyed Ishaq Gilani also said that local religious and tribal elders said there was more than one soldier involved.
This is while the US military insists that only one soldier was involved in the massacre.
On Sunday, a US soldier opened fire on Afghan civilians inside their homes, killing at least 16 and injuring several others in the town of Panjwaii.
Kandahar tribal leaders called on the Afghan government and the international community to carry out an investigation into the crime and put the perpetrators of the heinous act on trial in an Afghan court.
Afghan lawmakers have also called for a public trial of the US troops involved in the massacre.
Meanwhile, the Afghan Taliban have vowed revenge against the US forces
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Somalia: Suicide bomber targets presidential palace
At least five people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the heart of the Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, officials have said.
A bomber blew himself up at the gates of the presidential palace, which correspondents say is one of the city's most closely guarded areas.
The Islamist militants al-Shabab said they carried out the bombing.
Since being pushed out of Mogadishu in August, the group has staged a number of deadly attacks in the city.
The bomber was wearing a jacket packed with explosives, Paddy Ankunda, the spokesperson for the African Union force in Somalia (Amisom), told the BBC.
At least seven other people were injured by the blast - although al-Shabab, which recently joined al-Qaeda, says it killed 17 people, and wounded 30 others, AFP news agency reports.
Mogadishu is mostly under the control of Amisom, working alongside Somali government soldiers.
The presidential palace is a heavily fortified compound where the most senior government officials, including the president, have their offices.
Correspondents say this latest attack could be a setback to attempts to fully secure the city.
Al-Shabab is under attack on several fronts, with troops from Kenya and Ethiopia also gaining ground recently.
But the group still controls much of southern and central Somalia.
Kenyan soldiers fighting al-Shabab in southern Somalia are being integrated into the AU force - boosting Amisom numbers to 17,731 from its current level of 12,000.
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Press voices scepticism over Gaza truce
Israeli, Palestinian and Middle Eastern papers have expressed doubt over whether the ceasefire reached between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza can last for long.
Most commentators feel that the truce - mediated by Egypt after four days of Israeli air strikes and rocket fire from Gaza that left at least 25 Palestinians dead and dozens of Israelis injured - is unlikely to bring more than a temporary lull in the cycle of violence.
Several commentators also point wearily to the entrenched nature of the conflict in the region.
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Roni Shaked in Yediot Aharonot
When will the next round of violence erupt? This is only a matter of time. A ceasefire, like all the tahdiahs [calm agreements] in recent years that did not hold, is a respite between rounds of violence. After the current round, it is also clear that Israel cannot show restraint vis-a-vis new terror plots that will be planned in Gaza. Also, [Islamic] Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees cannot show restraint for long. They will exploit this respite to renew their stock of rockets and prepare for the next round.
Yoav Limor in Yisrael Hayom
The five recent days fighting in Gaza changed nothing fundamentally… One can say with certainty that the next round will regrettably come very soon.
Yaakov Katz in Jerusalem Post
Israel and Islamic Jihad reached a tenuous ceasefire on Tuesday, which both sides know will likely not last longer than a few months... What we are facing are short rounds of violence like in April, August, October, and now this week, followed by a period of quiet. Another round, another period of quiet.
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Fayiz Abu Shammalah in Gaza-based Hamas-run Filastin
We thank Egypt for not leaving the Palestinians in Gaza to face the Israeli aggression alone. So, it intervened and used all its power to stop the aggression... But no thanks are due to Egypt as a mediator between the flesh of the Arab Palestinians and the spears of the Zionist enemy... How can a loving mother be happy to mediate when the teeth of the Zionist wolf are making its child bleed?
Editorial in Jerusalem-based pro-Fatah Al-Quds
If it is true that the reason for the raids [on Gaza] was to test the so-called Iron Dome [anti-rocket] system, then this was treating Palestinian and Israeli lives as if they counted for nothing... In any case, the aggression on Gaza was unjustified and the world should have stopped it on the first day.
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Editorial in UAE's Al-Bayan
The mediation is not new as Egypt has always led the way in attempts to reach calm. These are not new because they always follow attacks by the Occupation [Israel] on the Palestinian people. If we look at the fate of previous understandings, Israel is certain to violate the present agreement. In fact, the signs of this violation appeared [on 13 March], hours after a truce was announced...
Editorial in Qatar's Al-Rayah
The lesson the Palestinian resistance groups should learn is that the Egyptian-sponsored truce, which managed to stop the aggression and the assassinations, is temporary. The resistance groups should prepare for another round, which might be tougher and bloodier, with an [Israeli government] that does not care about any ethical or humanitarian values... The Palestinian people will not rely on this truce. They do not trust the Israeli occupation and they have a bitter experience of it.
Editorial in Jordan's Al-Dustour
From our follow-up and reading of the Zionist aggression record, we can definitely assert that the ceasefire between the enemy [Israel] and the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, which was sponsored by sisterly Egypt, is temporary and will not last long... The first sign of going back on this agreement is the words of [Israeli] General Amos Gilad, when he announced that the agreement does not include the assassinations of Palestinian leaders. This is a flagrant move which confirms the devious intent of the Zionist enemy, and confirms that it will continue its blatant aggression.
Ali Totmaj in Iran's Hemayat
They [Gaza residents] are fighting against several enemies: the Zionist regime, compromising Arab countries that support the Zionists with their silence... and the Western countries. The Western countries apparently condemn the Zionists' attacks but do not take any practical steps [to help the people of Gaza], and instead provide weapons to the Zionists.
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