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Morocco reimposes Tangiers lockdown after virus spike
Jul 13, 2020
RABAT — Morocco on Monday announced a return to lockdown measures in the northern port city of Tangiers to smother a new outbreak of the nov ...
UN restarts cross-border aid to Syria but shuts access point
Jul 12, 2020
UNITED NATIONS, United States — The UN Security Council on Saturday passed a resolution to restart cross-border humanitarian aid to Syria, b ...
'Pro-Haftar forces will maintain blockade of Libya's oil production'
Jul 12, 2020
TRIPOLI — A blockade of Libya's oil production will continue, forces loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar have warned, despite the country's Na ...
In crisis-hit Lebanon, will French-language schools survive?
Jul 12, 2020
 ZAHLE, Lebanon — Inside the French-language school she has run for years in east Lebanon, Sister Colette Moughabghab welcomed parents ...
Ten million face acute food shortages in Yemen — UN
Jul 11, 2020
GENEVA — Nearly 10 million people are facing acute food shortages in Yemen and urgent action is needed to avert a famine, the UN's World Foo ...
New Tunisia protests over unemployment
Jul 11, 2020
TUNIS — Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated in the south of the country on Saturday against unemployment and the death of a young man they sa ...
Erdogan rebuffs criticism over Hagia Sophia conversion to mosque
Jul 11, 2020
ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday rejected worldwide condemnation over Turkey's decision to convert the Byzantine-era mo ...
We face famine or virus: Syria’s displaced alarmed at aid impasse
Jul 11, 2020
MAARET MISRIN, Syria — After surviving months of bombardment, Nasr Sultan now fears his 10 children may starve or catch coronavirus as a div ...
Russia, China veto UN extension of cross-border aid in Syria
Jul 08, 2020
UNITED NATIONS, United States — Russia and China on Tuesday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have extended authorisation f ...
Hizbollah-linked tycoon back in Lebanon after US release
Jul 08, 2020
BEIRUT — A Lebanese businessman jailed in the United States over allegations of funding Shiite movement Hizbollah arrived back in Beirut on ...
Syria’s Assad says losing battles does not mean war is lost
May 06, 2015
Sudan says anti-air defences engaged target, deny attack
May 06, 2015
Palestinian officials visit Syria over Yarmouk camp
May 05, 2015
US’ Kerry talks diplomatic ties on surprise visit to Somalia
May 05, 2015
US wants a UN team to lay blame for Syria gas attacks — diplomats
May 05, 2015
Iran’s allies, not atoms, preoccupy Israeli generals
May 05, 2015
Indonesia to stop sending domestic workers to Mideast — reports
May 05, 2015
Iran’s Rouhani denounces boasting over arms deals
May 05, 2015
Suicide bomber blows himself up during Damascus attack
May 04, 2015
Danish bus ads on Israeli settlements brought to a halt
May 04, 2015
Hamas security headquarters in Gaza bombed after threat
May 04, 2015
Iraqi forces plead for help as Daesh closes in on refinery
May 04, 2015
Qatar hopes to end ‘kafala’ system in 2015 — minister
May 04, 2015
Kerry in Kenya calls for unity to defeat terrorism
May 04, 2015
Afghan talks agree on reopening Taliban political office
May 04, 2015
Clashes as Ethiopian Israelis protest 'police brutality'
May 03, 2015
Region threatened as Gulf leaders hold summit
May 03, 2015
Daesh claims Iraqi car bomb attack that killed 19
May 03, 2015
Egypt jails 14 policemen, doctor for torture deaths
May 03, 2015
Egypt extends for 3 months military mandate in Gulf, Red Sea, Strait of Mandab
May 03, 2015
Egypt charges 40 over allegedly being Daesh members
May 03, 2015
Tunisia says Jewish pilgrims safe, after Israel warning
May 03, 2015

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