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Rare calm in Syria’s Idlib after ceasefire deal
Mar 08, 2020
 IDLIB, Syria — Syria’s war-ravaged northwest woke up to relative calm on Friday, its skies free of warplanes for the first day in mont ...
'Star of the East' Umm Kulthum returns to light up Cairo
Mar 08, 2020
CAIRO — Revered Arab singer Umm Kulthum returned to light up the stage once more on Friday, almost five decades after her death, in the form ...
Turkey to stop migrants from risky Aegean sea crossings
Mar 08, 2020
PAZARKULE, Turkey — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered the Turkish coastguard to stop migrants from making risky Aegean sea crossings, a ...
War-torn Yemen at a 'critical juncture' — UN
Mar 08, 2020
DUBAI — Yemen is at a crossroads, the United Nations' envoy to the war-torn country said Saturday, as tens of thousands of people fled the n ...
Suicide attackers hit outside US embassy in Tunis
Mar 08, 2020
TUNIS — Suicide attackers struck outside the US embassy in the Tunisian capital on Friday, killing a police officer, wounding six other peop ...
Putin, Erdogan look to defuse Syria crisis at Moscow talks
Mar 05, 2020
MOSCOW — The leaders of Russia and Turkey met in Moscow on Thursday after a surge in fighting in Syria raised fears of their armies clashing ...
Yemen cafes shut, women harassed as Houthis impose morals campaign
Mar 05, 2020
DUBAI — The Houthi rebels arrived without warning, heavily armed and in a furious mood, as they barged into Ophelia, the only cafe for women ...
Sudan crackdown may have killed up to 241 last June — rights group
Mar 05, 2020
KHARTOUM — Sudanese security forces deliberately killed scores of people, possibly as many as 241, in a crackdown on a pro-democracy protest ...
290 million students out of school as global virus battle intensifies
Mar 05, 2020
ROME — Almost 300 million students worldwide faced weeks at home with Italy and India the latest to shut schools over the deadly new coronav ...
Unions criticise Norwegian fund over UN settlement blacklist
Mar 05, 2020
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Two international trade unions have used a UN list of companies working in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestin ...
Suicide bomber kills 26 in attack on anti-IS fighters in Iraq
Dec 24, 2014
Qatar and Egypt officials discuss reconciliation — sources
Dec 24, 2014
Iran warns West to keep expectations realistic on nuclear compromise
Dec 24, 2014
Israel approves 380 new East Jerusalem settler housing units
Dec 24, 2014
As US troops return to Iraq, more private contractors follow
Dec 24, 2014
First outdoor art show in conservative Saudi Arabia
Dec 24, 2014
Economy dominates in-tray of new Tunisia president
Dec 24, 2014
Egypt satirist who mocked army fined millions
Dec 23, 2014
Hundreds of civilians killed in Libya fighting as crisis deepens — UN
Dec 23, 2014
Sixty journalists killed in 2014, Mideast deadliest area — watchdog
Dec 23, 2014
Algeria kills jihadist chief behind Frenchman’s murder
Dec 23, 2014
Syria approves medicine deliveries to Aleppo — WHO
Dec 22, 2014
Kurdish fighters face stiff resistance from IS
Dec 22, 2014
Libya fighting spreads to third oil port; 11 killed in Benghazi
Dec 22, 2014
Israel charges 8 Palestinians over Facebook incitement
Dec 22, 2014
Germany plans trauma centre for IS rape victims — minister
Dec 22, 2014
IS arrests ‘extremists’ accused of plot against group
Dec 22, 2014
Brutal French driver attack ‘not a terrorist act’
Dec 22, 2014
Al Jazeera suspends Egypt channel as Doha, Cairo mull closer ties
Dec 22, 2014
Qatar gives ‘full support’ to Sisi’s Egypt
Dec 21, 2014
Egyptian jailed for 10 years for spying for Israel
Dec 21, 2014
Rival Libya government urges foreigners to return to Tripoli
Dec 21, 2014

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