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February 16, 2015 - 09:47 AM DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain has deployed war planes to Jordan, the state news agency BNA said on Sunday, becoming the second Gulf Arab country to send warplanes to help in the fight against Islamist militants in Syria and Iraq. CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian jets bombed Islamic State targets in Libya on Monday, a day after the group there released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians, drawing Cairo directly into the conflict across its border. Egypt said the dawn strike hit militant camps, training sites and weapons storage areas in neighbouring Libya, where civil conflict has plunged the country into near anarchy and created havens for armed factions. PARIS (AP) — Despite desecrated Jewish graves in France and a deadly attack at a synagogue in Denmark, European leaders on Monday rejected calls from Israel's leader for a mass migration of the continent's Jews to Israel, urging unity instead. Hundreds of Jewish tombstones were found vandalized in eastern France on Sunday, hours after a Danish Jew guarding a synagogue in Copenhagen was shot to death. So far over 9,000 Jews have returned to Israel. Israeli officials say Syrian rebels are urging them to launch airstrikes against foreign Hezbollah militants and Iranian Shi'ite fighters backing President Bashar al-Assad's forces along the Jordanian and Israeli borders in southern Syria, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Assad's commanders turned to the Lebanon-based radicals and Iranian fighters in a bid to thwart Syrian rebels from ramping up attacks near Damascus, said a representative from the UK-based pro-opposition monitoring group, which gets information from a network of informants on the ground inside Syria. The group also says Syrian government forces have recently made "significant progress" both in the border regions near Jordan and in parts of the Golan Heights not already under Israeli control. Activists say aerial support was an important factor in t... |