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'Cold will kill us' — Yemen's fleeing families face desert winter
Nov 30, 2021
MARIB, Yemen — Forced to flee fighting in Yemen's brutal war, Ali Yehya Hayba and his family find themselves crammed into a desert tent with dozens of others, fearing the onset of winter.Hayba, his wife and their seven children escaped to Al Sumya camp east of Marib city, the government's last northern stronghold, after clashes escalated nearby.The ...
Syria Kurds protest recruitment of teenage girls for combat
Nov 29, 2021
QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurdish protesters in northeastern Syria demonstrated outside UN of ...
Algerians vote in local polls to seal post-Bouteflika 'change'
Nov 28, 2021
ALGIERS — Algerians voted Saturday in local elections seen as key in President Abdelm ...
Sudan PM sacks police chiefs after post-coup violence
Nov 28, 2021
KHARTOUM — Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok said Saturday he has replaced Sudan's police chiefs after more than 40 people were killed in a cra ...
Egypt unveils Pharaonic ‘Rams Road’ at Karnak Temple
Nov 27, 2021
LUXOR, Egypt — Egypt unveiled on Thursday a road lined with hundreds of ram-headed sphinx statues dating back more than 3,000 years, in a gr ...
Sudan PM calls for halt to post-coup sackings
Nov 25, 2021
KHARTOUM — Sudan's newly reinstated Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Wednesday ordered a halt to sackings and a review of all appointments m ...
UN urges Yemen warring parties to 'de-escalate violence'
Nov 25, 2021
DUBAI — The United Nations on Wednesday urged Yemen's warring sides to "de-escalate violence", a day after one of its agencies warned the co ...
98 candidates register for Libya's presidential poll
Nov 24, 2021
TRIPOLI — Libya's electoral commission said Tuesday that 98 candidates, including two women, had registered to run in a presidential electio ...
Sudan frees several civilian leaders detained since coup
Nov 22, 2021
KHARTOUM — Sudanese authorities have released several civilian leaders detained since last month's military coup, one of the former captives ...
On the scrap heap: Syria’s ‘horrific’ child labour
Nov 22, 2021
AL BAB, Syria — Syria’s decade-long conflict forced 15-year-old Mohammad Makhzoum out of the classroom and into a scrapyard, where the orpha ...
Robot waiters take Iraq’s Mosulites back to the future
Nov 22, 2021
MOSUL, Iraq — From the rubble of Iraq’s war-ravaged city of Mosul arises the sight of androids gliding back and forth in a restaurant to ser ...
Sudan PM to return to gov’t after coup — mediators
Nov 21, 2021
KHARTOUM — Sudan's top military leader and the prime minister he ousted almost a month ago have reached a deal for the premier's return to g ...
Egypt makes Gaza comeback with post-war reconstruction
Nov 21, 2021
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — Posters of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi beam out over a site in the war-battered Gaza Strip ...
Iran nuclear talks to resume, Tehran 'determined' to salvage deal
Nov 30, 2021
Libyan presidential hopefuls petition against PM's candidacy
Nov 29, 2021
Five Iraqi Kurdish fighters killed in attack blamed on Daesh
Nov 29, 2021
Hamas warns over Israel president's visit to Hebron flashpoint
Nov 28, 2021
Israel, Morocco sign security deal as minister visits
Nov 25, 2021
IAEA seeks 'common ground' with Iran ahead of nuclear talks
Nov 24, 2021
Iran says hopes for 'constructive' visit by IAEA chief
Nov 22, 2021
Saied tells Blinken Tunisia readying to exit ‘exceptional situation’
Nov 21, 2021
10 Iran military personnel on trial over downed Ukraine jet
Nov 21, 2021
Iraq gets 1.2 million doses of Pfizer COVID vaccine
Nov 20, 2021
Somalia faces 'rapidly worsening' drought-- UN
Nov 20, 2021
Iran 'absolutely serious' about nuclear talks — Raisi
Nov 16, 2021
Al Jazeera TV chief in Sudan held, after six killed in protests
Nov 14, 2021
Three Iraqis killed in Syria's Al Hol camp — monitor
Nov 13, 2021
World powers urge Libya to hold 'free' and 'credible' elections from December 24
Nov 12, 2021
Lebanon minister in Gulf row says could resign
Nov 12, 2021
Kuwait to limit visas for Lebanese over Gulf row
Nov 10, 2021
Saudi-led coalition says 60 Houthis killed near Yemen’s Marib
Nov 10, 2021
US doesn't need Israeli permission to open consulate — Palestinians
Nov 10, 2021
Arab League urges 'detente' between Lebanon, Gulf states
Nov 08, 2021
Saudi-led coalition says 115 Yemeni rebels killed
Nov 08, 2021
Saudi-led coalition says 138 insurgents killed near Yemen's Marib
Nov 07, 2021

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