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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 200 people were injured in the airstrikes on a marketplace in Douma.

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The internationally recognised Libyan government based in the country's east asked for the meeting, urging Arab countries to "adopt measures to confront" Daesh.

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Abadi approved "decisions of the investigative commission on the withdrawal of the Anbar Operations Command and units attached to it from the city of Ramadi.

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Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian hints at September 22 for negotiations

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12 people beheaded were local gunmen who had been battling Daesh while 22 other residents, who were wounded in the fight, were executed in a hospital, which was burnt by the militants.

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Sheikh Ahmad Al Assir was detained at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport as he was trying to flee the country in disguise and using a forged passport.

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A leaked video showed scores of prisoners with their faces covered chatting "Allahu Akbar" with footage of a ward that had furniture and equipment ransacked.

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The Cairo criminal court sentenced Mursi to death in June over a mass jail break during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak.

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