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Israel strike targets Iran weapons in Syria port — monitor
Dec 07, 2021
BEIRUT — An Israeli air strike hit a shipment of Iranian weapons in the Syrian port of Latakia on Tuesday, in the first such attack on the key facility, a war monitor said.The Israeli raid “directly targeted an Iranian weapons shipment in the container yard”, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Syrian state media reported the strike on the ...
From art shows to theatre, Baghdad sees cultural revival
Dec 07, 2021
BAGHDAD — Art exhibitions, book fairs on the Tigris and Godot in Baghdad — after deca ...
Sudan police fire tear gas as thousands protest
Dec 06, 2021
KHARTOUM — Sudanese police fired tear gas on Monday as thousands of protesters rallie ...
Iraqi fishermen caught in net of water frontiers
Dec 06, 2021
AL FAW, Iraq — On the banks of the Shatt Al Arab waterway, Iraqi fishermen live in constant fear of arrest by Iranian and Kuwaiti forces for ...
Incomplete Saddam-era marquee mosque lays bare Iraq divisions
Dec 05, 2021
BAGHDAD — It was meant to compete with the Taj Mahal in grandeur, but former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s monumental Al Rahman Mosque pro ...
Top Sudan general sees ‘positive’ signs coup sanctions will be lifted
Dec 05, 2021
KHARTOUM — Sudan’s top general Abdel Fattah Al Burhan said on Saturday there are “positive indicators” that measures taken against his count ...
In Iraq, little people football team dreams big
Dec 04, 2021
BAGHDAD — Twice a week, a small football pitch in Iraq offers the 25-member national squad of little people a chance to fulfil dreams and ta ...
Libya on bumpy road to uncertain elections
Dec 01, 2021
TRIPOLI — Libya is less than a month from elections seen as crucial to ending its long-running civil war, but deep political divisions could ...
Pentagon orders new probe into Syria air strike investigated by NYT
Dec 01, 2021
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon launched a fresh probe Monday into a 2019 air strike that killed civilians in Syria, two weeks after a New York Ti ...
Sudan security forces fire tear gas at demos against post-coup deal
Dec 01, 2021
KHARTOUM — Sudanese security forces fired tear gas on Tuesday at protesters rallying against last month's military takeover and a deal that ...
From tents to tallest building: UAE's 'remarkable' 50-year rise
Dec 01, 2021
DUBAI — Ehab Fouad was a teenager when he marched in the parade marking the birth of the United Arab Emirates, that has gone from desert out ...
'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 ...
Syria Kurds protest recruitment of teenage girls for combat
Nov 29, 2021
QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurdish protesters in northeastern Syria demonstrated outside UN offices on Sunday against what they say is the continued ...
Iraq takes back 100 Daesh terrorists from Syria Kurdish forces
Dec 08, 2021
Iran nuclear proposals 'not a reasonable basis' for accord — France
Dec 08, 2021
UAE shrinks work week, shifts to Western-style weekend
Dec 07, 2021
Turkey, Qatar vow joint push to reopen Kabul airport
Dec 06, 2021
Almost 50 killed in Sudan Darfur tribal clashes — officials
Dec 06, 2021
Four Yemen civilians among 9 dead in Saudi-led strike — medic
Dec 04, 2021
Vintage cars show racy past of Iran’s toppled royalty
Dec 01, 2021
Iraqi cleric Sadr's bloc declared biggest election winner
Dec 01, 2021
Iran's Raisi says ending sanctions key to Vienna talks
Dec 01, 2021
Libya, UN warn intimidation stopping Qadhafi son's appeal
Dec 01, 2021
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

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