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Oman launches COVID-19 vaccination campaign
Dec 27, 2020
MUSCAT — Oman started coronavirus vaccinations on Sunday, two days ahead of plans to resume all flights and open borders that temporarily cl ...
Turkish defence minister in Libya to discuss cooperation
Dec 26, 2020
TRIPOLI — Turkey's Defence Minister Hulusi Akar made a surprise trip to Libya on Saturday, two days after Khalifa Haftar urged his fighters ...
Hamas says ‘barbaric’ Israeli strike damaged children’s hospital
Dec 26, 2020
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — Hamas on Saturday denounced as “barbaric” overnight strikes it said damaged a Gaza children’s hospital, ...
Iran’s Rouhani says US wants vaccine payments to go via its banks
Dec 26, 2020
TEHRAN — President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that Washington was demanding Iranian transactions for novel coronavirus vaccines pass th ...
Cards from across Iraq bring Christmas cheer to Christians
Dec 26, 2020
QARAQOSH, Iraq — It wasn’t Santa on a sleigh, but it was close: Just before dusk on Christmas Eve, a busload of volunteers pulled into the I ...
Trump warns Iran over rocket strike on embassy in Iraq
Dec 24, 2020
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday he would hold "Iran responsible" in the event of a fatal attack on Americans in I ...
Turkey bolsters influence across North Africa's Maghreb
Dec 24, 2020
TRIPOLI — Turkey is boosting its influence across North Africa, analysts say, intervening militarily in war-torn Libya and using "soft power ...
Tunisian ex-presidential candidate Nabil Karoui rearrested
Dec 24, 2020
TUNIS — Controversial Tunisian media mogul and former presidential candidate Nabil Karoui was rearrested on Thursday in connection with an a ...
Libyans mark independence day amid high security in Tripoli
Dec 24, 2020
TRIPOLI — Libya on Thursday celebrated the 69th anniversary of its independence with military parades held in the centre of the capital Trip ...
'Cheaper than water': Iraqis angry but unsurprised over Blackwater pardons
Dec 23, 2020
BAGHDAD — Iraqis on Wednesday were outraged, heartbroken but not surprised to hear US President Donald Trump had pardoned for four Blackwate ...
Israel army says it shelled south Lebanon after rocket attack
Dec 20, 2015
Iraqi strike may be ‘mistake’ by 2 sides — Pentagon chief
Dec 19, 2015
At least 14 killed in clashes in Libya's Ajdabiya
Dec 19, 2015
‘At least nine escape kidnappers in Iraq, cross into Kuwait’
Dec 17, 2015
Iran registers candidates for powerful clerical body
Dec 17, 2015
Syrian opposition groups choose ex-PM to represent them in talks
Dec 17, 2015
Britain PM rules out ban on Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
Dec 17, 2015
Turkey arrests 2 Daesh suspects at airport, seizes 150 passports
Dec 17, 2015
Gunmen kidnap at least 26 Qatari hunters in Iraq — officials
Dec 17, 2015
Syria army retakes key hilltop in coastal province — report
Dec 16, 2015
Turkey to set up Qatar military base to face ‘common enemies’
Dec 16, 2015
Gulf states discussing sending special forces to Syria
Dec 15, 2015
UN watchdog decides to close nuclear weapons probe of Iran
Dec 15, 2015
15 Daesh suicide car bombs targetting Iraq forces 'repelled'
Dec 15, 2015
Turkish troops withdrawn from camp near Iraq’s Mosul
Dec 14, 2015
Turkey-Russia summit cancelled — Kremlin
Dec 14, 2015
Lebanon charges Qadhafi son in decades-old kidnap case
Dec 14, 2015
Tehran's air pollution hits worst level in months
Dec 14, 2015
Two-thirds of Palestinians support knife attacks — poll
Dec 14, 2015
Obama warns Daesh leaders 'you are next'
Dec 14, 2015
Daesh executes two for 'witchcraft', 'spying' in Libya
Dec 14, 2015
Children return to school in war-torn Benghazi
Dec 13, 2015

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