with Israeli troops near Ramallah , West Bank . Recent days have seen a series of stabbing attacks in Israel and the West Bank that have wounded several Israelis AP 5/10 Women cry during the funeral of Palestinian teenager Ahmad Sharaka , 13 , who was shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes at a checkpoint near Ramallah , at the family house in the Palestinian West Bank refugee camp of Jalazoun , Ramallah AP
Since 1994 , mountainous Nagorno - Karabakh – officially part of Azerbaijan – has been under the control of local ethnic Armenian forces and the Armenian military . Armenian forces also occupy several areas outside Nagorno - Karabakh proper . The sides are separated by a demilitarised buffer zone , but small clashesconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlehave broken out frequently . Each side blamed the other for Saturday ’s escalation . In a statement , Azerbaijan ’s defence ministry said that 12 of its soldiers “ became shahids ” – Muslim martyrs – and that one of its helicopters had been shot down .
23/74 Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces arrest a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al - Sarkhi at his home after clashes with his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala , 50 miles ( 80 kilometers ) south of Baghdad 24/74 Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces arrest a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al - Sarkhi after clashes with his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala , 50 miles ( 80 kilometers ) south of Baghdad 25/74 Iraq crisis A vehicle burns in front of a home of a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al - Sarkhi after clashesconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlewith his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala , 50 miles ( 80 kilometers ) south of Baghdad 26/74 Iraqi refugees An Iraqi woman holds her exhausted son as over 1000 Iraqis who have fled fighting in and around the city of Mosul and Tal Afar wait at a Kurdish checkpoint in the hopes of entering a temporary displacement camp in Khazair 27/74 Iraqi refugees Displaced Iraqi women hold pots as they queue to receive food during the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan , at an encampment for displaced Iraqis who fled from Mosul and other towns , in the Khazer area outside Irbil , north Iraq
The attack is believed to have been carried out by ISIS or one of its affiliates . January 20 , 2016 - ISIS claims responsibility for an attack in Arish in Sinai , which kills five police officers . ISIS said that a bomb targeted a patrol and was followed by clashesconflict.attack.nabetween ISIS militants and police officers . The attack is believed to have been carried out by ISIS or one of its affiliates . January 21 , 2016 - Suspected ISIS militants launched an attack on oil terminal in the Libyan port of Ras Lanuf , causing at least one storage tank to explode and a pipeline to catch fire , according to the Libyan news agency and an engineer .
In its report , Anadolu Agency , which cited unnamed government officials , did not say how many tanks had entered Syria . Turkeys ' private NTV television says as many as 20 tanks had crossed into Syria . It said clashesconflict.attack.nawere taking place at the border . _ _ _ 11 a.m.
According to numbers cited in the report , 149 Palestinians were killed in 2015 by Israeli security forces , but only 77 were in the course of attacking Israelis . “ There were numerous reports of the ISF ( Israel security forces ) killing Palestinians during riots , demonstrations , at checkpoints , and during routine operations ; in some cases they did not pose a threat to life , ” the report read . The numbers clash with Israeli accounts that some two - thirds of Palestinians killed during a wave of violence beginning in October were in the midst of attempting or carrying out attacks and the rest died in clashesconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlewith security forces . The report comes months after Secretary of State John Kerry was asked by Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy and nine other US lawmakers to probe instances of what they said were possible extrajudicial killings by Israeli forces . Leahy and his fellow signatories asked Kerry in February to look into claims of “ gross violations of human rights ” by Israel and Egypt , citing examples of alleged extrajudicial killings by both countries and saying it could affect aid to the countries .
" People engaging in such violent acts have no place in football , " it said in a statement . Marseille 's emergency services said 31 people were injured in Saturday 's disorder , including one middle - aged man who was knocked unconscious , and one England supporter who suffered a heart attack . Broken glass and debris littered some roads and alleys near the waterfront , the focal point of clashesconflict.attack.nabetween English , Russian and French fans . The clouds of tear gas produced images of unrest all too similar , though on a much smaller scale , to those in the city 18 years ago when violence flared for two days and nights around England 's World Cup game against Tunisia . While the tournament is being played under a state of emergency after militant Islamists attacked Paris in November , French police will be under pressure to snuff out the fan violence .
Hillary Clinton 's support for violent regime change in Syria has thrown the country into one of the bloodiest civil wars anyone has ever seen , while giving ISIS a launching pad for terrorism against the West . [ The Arab uprisings of 2011 included peaceful demonstrations in Syria . But President Bashar Assad 's security forces began attacking protesters , and the clashesconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlerapidly escalated into a civil war . President Obama was extremely wary of direct U.S. involvement , and his administration was criticized for not taking stronger action in the first few years . U.S. forces began bombing the Islamic State in Syria in 2014 , well after Clinton left her post as secretary of state .
Last week IS - linked media said that five Russian special forces were killed near Palmyra , publishing pictures from their cellphones and a video showing a bloodied corpse . However Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov at the time denied that Russian officers were participating in the advance on Palmyra , saying that " the advance is carried out by contingents of the Syrian army " . Syrian troops on Thursday entered the ancient city of Palmyra , which had been controlled by IS since last May , and clashesconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlewere ongoing in the city . Backed by Russian warplanes and allied militia on the ground , the Syrian army advanced into Palmyra after launching a desert offensive early this month , said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights . The defence ministry in Moscow said Russian aircraft carried out 146 strikes on " terrorist targets " in the Palmyra area between Wednesday and last Sunday .
Hassan Haj Ali , along with other U.S.-backed commanders , said they 're clashing with Kurdish fighters -- and the Kurdish group also receives American support . CBS News " Our American friends said they 'd put pressure on the Kurds to stop the clashesconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle, " he told us , " but there 's no sign that 's happened . " The glimmer of good news from Syria is that aid convoys carrying food and medicine made it to areas besieged by fighting on Wednesday . One of those towns is Madaya , where there have been reports of people starving to death .
Some fans walked through the city bare - chested and with blood dripping from head wounds . French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said one British citizen was ' ' seriously injured ' ' in the clashes . ' ' Once again , as over the last 30 years , an international football competition has been the scene of clashesconflict.attack.nabetween violent people claiming to be supporters of their national team , ' ' Cazeneuve said in a statement . Amid the broken beer bottles and gray clouds of tear gas that filled the air during the afternoon , families and tourists walked around the picturesque port , sometimes forced to skirt around lines of riot police leaning on their shields . Groups of people watched the chaos from the rear decks of two gleaming white yachts .
A Turkish soldier standing guard is seen from the Syrian town of Khirbet Al - Joz at the Turkish - Syrian border , in Latakia countryside , where internally displaced Syrian people are waiting to get permission to cross into Turkey , February 7 , 2016 . REUTERS / Ammar Abdullah Buildings which were damaged during the security operations and clashesconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlebetween Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants , are pictured in Sur district of Diyarbakir , Turkey February 11 , 2016 . REUTERS / Sertac Kayar ISTANBUL Turkey does not intend to stop shelling Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in response to cross - border fire , President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday , adding the United State should decide whether it wants to back Turkey or the Kurdish insurgents .
Since it declared a caliphate the group has increasingly been delivering services such as healthcare , and distributing aid and free fuel 14/74 Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces detain men suspected of being militants of the Isis group in Diyala province 15/74 Iraq crisis Mourners carry the coffin of a Shi'ite volunteer from the brigades of peace , who joined the Iraqi army and was killed during clashesconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlewith militants of the Isis group in Samarra , during his funeral in Najaf 16/74 Iraqi refugees An Iraqi Shiite Turkmen family fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Tal Afar , west of Mosul , arrives at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Arbil , in Iraq 's Kurdistan region 17/74 Isis leader Abu Bakr al - Baghdadi A photograph made from a video by the jihadist affiliated group Furqan Media via their twitter account allegedly showing Isis leader Abu Bakr al - Baghdadi delivering a sermon during Friday prayers at a mosque in Mosul .
That 's the main problem . " Fearing reprisals from his boss , Yevgeny declined to give his surname , as did other workers who spoke to Reuters . Armyansk , a sleepy Crimean town near the newly - established border with Ukraine , is not far from where Russia says it fought armed clashesconflict.attack.nawith Ukrainian infiltrators last week . Kiev says the clashes never took place and Moscow fabricated the incident as a possible pretext for new military action against Ukraine . The alleged plot has dominated headlines in Crimea , distracting attention away from the region 's own problems .
5/10 Women cry during the funeral of Palestinian teenager Ahmad Sharaka , 13 , who was shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes at a checkpoint near Ramallah , at the family house in the Palestinian West Bank refugee camp of Jalazoun , Ramallah AP 6/10 A wounded Palestinian boy and his father hold hands at a hospital after their house was brought down by an Israeli air strike in Gaza Reuters 7/10 Palestinians look on after a protester is shot by Israelis soldiers during clashesconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattleat the Howara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus EPA 8/10 A lawyer wearing his official robes kicks a tear gas canister back toward Israeli soldiers during a demonstration by scores of Palestinian lawyers called for by the Palestinian Bar Association in solidarity with protesters at the Al - Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem 's Old City , near Ramallah , West Bank AP 9/10 Undercover Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian in Ramallah Reuters
At least 17 soldiers were reportedly killed , and 30 were injured . Hide Caption 23 of 68 Photos : The ISIS terror threat Syrians wait near the Turkish border during clashesconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlebetween ISIS and Kurdish armed groups in Kobani , Syria , on Thursday , June 25 . The photo was taken in Sanliurfa , Turkey . ISIS militants disguised as Kurdish security forces infiltrated Kobani on Thursday and killed " many civilians , " said a spokesman for the Kurds in Kobani .
It appeared a group of English fans were targeted as they drank in the bar 's terrace area and the group were then seen hurling objects and chairs at rival fans as hooliganism reared its ugly head . It is not known if the offenders were Russian supporters or locals . The flare - attack was one of the most shocking sights of the clashesconflict.attack.na, which has seen property damaged and a fan dumped into the sea by a French gang . The violence has echoed the brutal scenes from the France 1998 World Cup , during the infamous ' Battle of Marseille ' , where English fans clashed with local hooligans after England 's victory against Tunisia . A cafe is engulfed in flames as English fans were targeted while drinking on the terrace of cafe on the streets of Marseille last night
But together , the city functions as one , in harmony . ” The harmony did not last . There is a hint , in the demolition of some of the sculptures that adorn the temples and monuments , of periodic regime change in the ruling class of Teotihuacán ; and , in the depiction of shield- and spear - toting warriors , of clashesconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlewith other local city - states . Perhaps , as several archaeologists suggested to me , civil war swept through Teotihuacán , culminating in a fire that seems to have damaged vast sections of the interior of the city around A.D. 550 . Perhaps the fire was caused by a visiting army .
“ We saw the Russians fly down , but they were met with Israeli and Jordanian F-16s , both together in Israeli and Jordanian airspace . The Russians were shocked and understood they can not mess with us , ” the Hashemite king was quoted saying . Israel and Russia set up a hotline in October , two months before the reported incident , to prevent clashesconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlebetween the two air forces after Russia deployed military aircraft to Syria in a bid to help prop up the flagging forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad . The January incident precipitated cooperation by Jordan and Israel to keep the Russians in check . Abdullah said IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot contacted him and asked him to speak to the Russians , and the king met Mossad chief Yossi Cohen in Amman .