Tunisia on Sunday extradited Moammar Gadhafi’s former prime minister to Libya, the government announced, despite protests from his lawyers and rights groups that he faces execution.
Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, who fled to neighboring Tunisia last September shortly after rebel fighters took the capital Tripoli, "was extradited this morning," a spokesman for Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali told Agence France Presse.
Full StorySearch and rescue teams have located the wreckage of the Turkish military jet shot down by Syria, CNN-Turk television reported on Sunday without citing a source.
The wreckage has been found at a depth of 1,300 meters, it said, without giving its precise location. The Turkish foreign ministry said it could not confirm the report.
Full StoryTurkish warplanes have carried out strikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq, the army said on Sunday.
The general staff said on its website the air strikes had hit "nine targets belonging to the separatist terrorist organization" referring to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), on June 22-24.
Full StoryNATO said it will hold an emergency meeting after Ankara on Sunday accused Syria of downing a Turkish jet in international airspace, raising fears that tensions could soar in the tinderbox region.
While admitting that a Turkish F-4 phantom jet briefly strayed into Syrian territory on Friday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said it was clearly out of it when it was shot down.
Full StoryThe release of a legal team held in Libya since a visit to slain leader Moammar Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam more than two weeks ago appears some way off despite "constructive" talks, Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said Sunday.
Four International Criminal Court (ICC) staff, including Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor and her Lebanese interpreter Helene Assaf, have been held in Zintan since June 7 after travelling there to help prepare Seif al-Islam's defense.
Full StoryViolence in Syria killed at least 63 people on Sunday, nearly half of them troops who died in clashes with rebels, as the bloodshed reached new heights, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
At least 16 soldiers were killed in the northern Aleppo province, while one died in an attack on his vehicle in neighboring Idlib province and the rest died in fighting elsewhere in Idlib and in the provinces of Damascus and Deir Ezzor in the east.
Full StoryIran has urged Ankara and Damascus to show "restraint" over Syria's shooting down of a Turkish fighter jet, Iranian state media reported on Sunday.
Tehran "asks both sides to show calm and restraint, and hopes that with tact and tolerance and dialogue this issue will be evaluated and through a peaceful resolution, tranquility and stability will be preserved in the region," Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying.
Full StoryThe Philippines said Sunday that at least 14 immigration officers were under investigation for alleged involvement in the human trafficking of poor Filipinos to violence-torn Syria.
Immigration commissioner Ricardo David said his office was cooperating with a probe being carried out by a special government task force on trafficking, which could lead to criminal charges or the firing of officers.
Full StoryDemonstrators battled police in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night in protest at what they said was excessive police use of force at a rally the previous night.
An Agence France Presse photographer saw several scuffles between police and protestors on Saturday and at least one demonstrator had a bloody face.
Full StoryU.N. leader Ban Ki-moon on Saturday raised his "deep concern" about the impact of Syria's shooting down of a Turkish fighter jet with Turkey's foreign minister, a spokesman said.
Ban expressed "his deep concern about the downed Turkish military jet and particularly about the potential serious implications of this incident for the region" in telephone talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.
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