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40 killed in deadliest Israeli strikes on Syria since 2018 — monitor
Jan 13, 2021
BEIRUT — Israeli raids targeting arms depots and military positions in eastern Syria killed at least nine Syrian soldiers and 31 allied figh ...
Amid Nile dam tensions, Egypt recalls Aswan 50 years on
Jan 13, 2021
ASWAN, Egypt — Half a century since Egypt’s ground-breaking Aswan dam was inaugurated with much fanfare, harnessing the Nile for hydropower ...
Ethiopia claims Sudan pressing further into disputed border zone
Jan 13, 2021
ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia on Tuesday claimed Sudanese forces were pushing further into a contested border region that has been the site of dead ...
Pompeo alleges Iran 'new home base' of Al Qaeda
Jan 13, 2021
WASHINGTON  — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo alleged Tuesday that arch-enemy Iran has become a new "home base" for Al-Qaeda worse th ...
The cronies of Tunisia’s Ben Ali: Where are they now?
Jan 12, 2021
TUNIS — Ten years since an uprising toppled Tunisian president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali, his in-laws, who ran a mafia-like empire that once p ...
What next if the US labels Yemen rebels ‘terrorists’?
Jan 12, 2021
DUBAI— Washington plans to designate Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi rebels as "terrorists", but experts warn outgoing President Donald Trump's ...
Erdogan pledges to put EU ties ‘back on track’
Jan 12, 2021
ANKARA — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he wanted to improve relations with the European Union and was hoping for th ...
Yemen's Houthis defiant as US brands rebels 'terrorists'
Jan 11, 2021
SANAA — Yemen's Houthis were defiant Monday after the United States said it will designate the Iran-backed rebels as terrorists, a last-ditc ...
First Qatar to Saudi Arabia flight lands after thaw
Jan 11, 2021
RIYADH — Qatar-Saudi flights resumed on Monday as the neighbours normalise ties under a landmark agreement that ended a bitter three-year ri ...
Lebanon tightens COVID-19 restrictions as infections skyrocket
Jan 11, 2021
BEIRUT — Lebanon on Monday tightened novel coronavirus measures by imposing a 24-hour curfew for an 11-day period and introducing new travel ...
Four years on, some in Europe support talking to Assad
Feb 19, 2015
A trench in Iraq exacerbates Sunni fears of sectarian partition
Feb 18, 2015
Tunisia militants kill four police in checkpoint attack
Feb 18, 2015
Egypt embarks on ambitious anti-terror campaign
Feb 18, 2015
Intervention against Daesh in Libya fraught with risks
Feb 18, 2015
Cyberattacks on Israel traced to Gaza — researchers
Feb 18, 2015
Kurdish forces repulse Daesh attack south of Erbil
Feb 18, 2015
Syria regime forces launch new Aleppo offensive
Feb 17, 2015
Qatar’s emir in Saudi Arabia for talks with new king
Feb 17, 2015
More than 350 million adults have type 2 diabetes — report
Feb 17, 2015
Libyan plane returns to Tripoli after Egypt closes airspace
Feb 17, 2015
World Food Programme to maintain Yemen operations
Feb 17, 2015
Military chiefs in Saudi Arabia for anti-Daesh talks
Feb 17, 2015
Kurdish militants demand progress from Turkey or say peace talks may end
Feb 17, 2015
Bahrain launches criminal investigation against main opposition group
Feb 17, 2015
Chad begins US-backed military exercise as warm-up for Boko Haram
Feb 16, 2015
Syrian insurgent group says it will not meet ‘biased’ UN envoy
Feb 16, 2015
Iran denies that Khamenei replied to Obama letter on Daesh
Feb 16, 2015
Daesh expansion in chaotic Libya prompts intervention calls
Feb 16, 2015
US brigade of 4,000 soldiers headed to Kuwait
Feb 15, 2015
Daesh says it has beheaded Egyptian Copts in Libya — video
Feb 15, 2015
Japan to give $15m to fight terror in Mideast, Africa — report
Feb 15, 2015

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