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Dozens reported dead in US-led strikes as battle nears Raqqa heart
Aug 22, 2017
BEIRUT — Dozens of civilians have died in two days of intense US-led strikes on Raqqa, a monitor said Tuesday, as fighting to retake the Syrian city from extremists nears its densely populated centre.The coalition acknowledges it has pounded the city and surrounding area with more than 250 air strikes over the past week alone, in support of the Syr ...
Iraqi forces retake three districts of Daesh bastion
Aug 22, 2017
TAL ABTA, Iraq — Iraqi forces on Tuesday recaptured from the Daesh terror group the f ...
Erdogan vows to thwart any ‘Kurdish state’ in Syria
Aug 22, 2017
ANKARA — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday vowed Turkey would thwart any atte ...
US-led strikes killed 27 civilians Sunday in Syria’s Raqqa — monitor
Aug 21, 2017
BEIRUT — US-led coalition strikes on Sunday killed 27 civilians in part of Syria's Raqqa city held by the Daesh terror group, the Syrian Obs ...
Iraqi forces close in on Daesh-held Tal Afar
Aug 21, 2017
TAL AL HESSAN, Iraq — Iraqi forces closed in Monday on Tal Afar on the second day of an offensive against the last major bastion of the Daes ...
Move against Kurd rebels on Turkey-Iran agenda— Erdogan
Aug 21, 2017
ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that a joint Turkish-Iranian operation against Kurdish militants was "always on the ...
Iraqi forces must rescue many abducted Yazidis from Tal Afar — Yazidi MP
Aug 21, 2017
ERBIL — As Iraqi forces pressed their offensive to retake Tal Afar on Monday, a Yazidi politician urged them to quickly rescue the many Yazi ...
Syrian opposition seeks unified front in Riyadh talks
Aug 21, 2017
RIYADH — Three Syrian opposition camps met in Riyadh on Monday to try to forge a unified front for what the UN hopes will be a substantive r ...
Fisherman nets message in a bottle in isolated Gaza
Aug 21, 2017
GAZA — For Palestinian fisherman Jihad Al Soltan, it was a surprise summer catch — a message in a bottle that he netted off a Gaza beach.It ...
Iraq launches battle for Tal Afar, Daesh bastion near Mosul
Aug 20, 2017
TAL AFAR AIRBASE, Iraq — Iraqi forces on Sunday pounded the Daesh terror group in Tal Afar, one of its last bastions in the country, in a ne ...
Syria’s Assad says Western plots against him foiled but war not yet won
Aug 20, 2017
AMMAN — Syrian President Bashar Assad said on Sunday his country had foiled Western designs to topple him but his army had not yet won the f ...
Iraqi forces prepare to retake Tal Afar from Daesh militants
Aug 20, 2017
BAGHDAD/ERBIL  — Five weeks after securing victory in Mosul, Iraqi forces have moved into positions around the city of Tal Afar, t ...
Fierce clashes rock Palestinian camp in Lebanon
Aug 19, 2017
SIDON, Lebanon — Palestinian security forces on Saturday battled radical Islamist gunmen in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp near ...
Syrian opposition meeting in Riyadh ends in stalemate
Aug 23, 2017
Lebanon army says in final stage of Daesh border battle
Aug 22, 2017
Row over Hajj pilgrimage helps fuel Qatar rift
Aug 22, 2017
UAE nuclear programme edges towards 2018 launch
Aug 21, 2017
Hizbollah using weaponised drones against Daesh in Syria
Aug 21, 2017
Lebanon army advances against Daesh in border battle
Aug 20, 2017
Lebanon army launches offensive against Daesh on Syria border
Aug 20, 2017
Syria rebels lose heavyweight with collapse of Islamist faction
Aug 17, 2017
Criticism grows over Netanyahu’s response to US neo-Nazism
Aug 17, 2017
Algeria recalls veteran crisis manager Ouyahia as prime minister
Aug 16, 2017
Saudi Arabia and Iraq to reopen border crossing after 27 years
Aug 16, 2017
‘Iran can quit nuclear deal if US keeps adding sanctions’
Aug 16, 2017
Lebanon war adoptees abroad dig to unearth roots
Aug 15, 2017
Yemen records 500,000 cholera cases, nearly 2,000 deaths — WHO
Aug 14, 2017
UAE pushes for better ties with cleric Sadr amid efforts to contain Iran
Aug 14, 2017
Iran conservatives tighten grip on top oversight body
Aug 14, 2017
Egypt opens Gaza crossing for Hajj pilgrims
Aug 14, 2017
Iran MPs boost missile funds in response to US sanctions
Aug 13, 2017
Yemen's blood bank faces threat of closure within days
Aug 12, 2017
Egypt police kills 3 behind anti-Copt attacks — ministry
Aug 10, 2017
Israel moves ahead on underground wall around Gaza
Aug 10, 2017
At least 56 dead as smugglers throw 300 migrants into Yemen Sea
Aug 10, 2017

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