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Concern deepens in Turkey over US sanctions for Russia missile system
Jun 02, 2019
ANKARA — The looming threat of US sanctions and a wider rupture with Western allies over Turkey's purchase of Russian air defences is r ...
UN chief calls on Sudan to resume talks on power transfer
Jun 02, 2019
UNITED NATIONS, United States — UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday called on Sudan's military rulers and protest groups to ...
War-torn Libya’s electricians battle to keep the lights on
May 31, 2019
TRIPOLI — Precariously perched 50 metres up an electricity pylon providing power to Libya's capital, Mohamad Dahman attempts to fix dam ...
Suspects back in Morocco court over Scandinavian hiker murders
May 31, 2019
SALE, Morocco — The trial in Morocco of two dozen men over the murders of two Scandinavian hikers resumed on Thursday after p ...
Sudanese in suits and ties rally against Bashir’s economic blunders
May 31, 2019
KHARTOUM — In unprecedented scenes in Khartoum, hundreds of workers in suits and ties alongside their neatly dressed women colleagues have g ...
Iran 'almost certainly' behind ship attacks off UAE — Bolton
May 30, 2019
ABU DHABI — US National Security Advisor John Bolton said Wednesday that Iran was almost certainly behind oil tanker attacks that sent Gulf ...
Lebanese bubble with anger over hookah tax
May 30, 2019
BEIRUT — Flipping the hot coals on his green hookah in a crowded Beirut cafe, Abbas Nasreddine says Lebanon’s new austerity budget has ...
Iran’s Rouhani suggests US talks possible if sanctions lifted
May 30, 2019
LONDON — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani signalled on Wednesday that talks with the United States might be possible if Washington lift ...
Top militant suspect transferred to Egypt from eastern Libya — state TV
May 30, 2019
CAIRO/BENGHAZI — Top Egyptian militant suspect Hisham Ashmawy was transferred to Egypt from eastern Libya in a military aircr ...
Sudan's opposition observes first day of strike, military says communication not suspended
May 29, 2019
KHARTOUM — Sudan's alliance of opposition and protest groups held a general strike on Tuesday as tensions mounted with the country's militar ...
Iraq shelling kills four; US pushes ‘political’ steps
Jan 23, 2014
Lebanon army kills ‘Al Qaeda-linked jihadist’
Jan 23, 2014
Egypt ‘surprised’ by exclusion from US-Africa summit
Jan 23, 2014
South Sudan accuses rebels of massacring 127 hospital patients
Jan 23, 2014
Israel says it cracks Palestinian Al Qaeda cell in Jerusalem
Jan 23, 2014
Algerian forces flood desert city to calm violence
Jan 23, 2014
Bahrain deadlocked talks saved from brink, some hope for progress
Jan 23, 2014
UAE convicts 30 Emiratis, Egyptians over Brotherhood ties
Jan 21, 2014
Yemeni president’s term extended
Jan 21, 2014
Key players at Syrian peace talks
Jan 21, 2014
Iraq says it intends to make 3 new provinces
Jan 21, 2014
Geneva II offers ‘best chance for political solution’ in Syria — Oxfam
Jan 21, 2014
Iraq presses Al Qaeda offensive; UN warns on displaced
Jan 21, 2014
Syria photos prove ‘industrial-scale’ killings by regime — report
Jan 21, 2014
Al-Nusra Front in Lebanon' claims Beirut bombing
Jan 21, 2014
One dead as sectarian unrest grips south Algeria town
Jan 20, 2014
South Sudan says retakes oil state capital Malakal, rebels deny
Jan 20, 2014
Rocket hits outskirts of Israel’s Eilat resort — security
Jan 20, 2014
Al Qaeda gunmen tighten Fallujah grip as Iraq bombing wave kills 21
Jan 20, 2014
Briton arrested for overseas ‘terrorism’ at London airport
Jan 20, 2014
Former PM Saad Hariri to return to Lebanon for 2014 election
Jan 20, 2014
Seven killed in clashes in Lebanon’s Tripoli
Jan 20, 2014

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