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News in Brief - Mon, June, 15, 2015 - 4:30GMT

Monday, 15 June 2015 7:19 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 15 June 2015 7:19 AM ]

Syrians fleeing the war pass through border fences to enter Turkish territory illegally, near the Turkish border crossing at Akcakale in Sanliurfa province on June 14, 2015. (AFP)

The Syrian army has repelled an attack by foreign-backed militants on the Tha'alah airport near the southern city of Suwayda. The army is bombing the militants and targeting them with all kinds of weapons to stop them from advancing.
A video has emerged showing brutal Israeli crackdown in the occupied territories. The footage shows a group of Israeli forces mercilessly beating a Palestinian man before arresting him in the West Bank. The man is carried away by the troops while bleeding.
The euro falls after Greece and its international creditors fail to reach a deal on bailout loans worth 7-point-2 billion euros. The threat of a Greek exit from the eurozone has dragged the currency down by point-four percent against the dollar.
In Iraq, at least 10 people have been killed as a car bomb hit a market in the capital Baghdad. Authorities say at least 20 others were wounded in the attack in the Qahira neighborhood. Several cars and shops were burnt. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.
In Yemen, Ansarullah fighters and their allied armed forces take control of the city of Hazm, the capital of Jawf province. The liberation of the city followed fierce clashes between Ansarullah and al-Qaeda-linked militants in the region. The Ansarullah gain comes despite intensifying Saudi bombardments.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized an upcoming UN report on Tel Aviv’s deadly war on Gaza, calling it a waste of time. The UN commission is due to publish its findings this month. More than 22-hundred Palestinians, most of them civilian, were killed during Israel’s two-month war.
Palestinians have rejected the findings of an Israeli report on last year’s deadly war on Gaza. They say Israel is trying to clear itself from the crimes it committed during the 50-day war. The Israeli report claims Palestinian resistance movement Hamas committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war.

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