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Egypt’s Siwa fortress renovation boosts hopes for ecotourism
Nov 15, 2020
SIWA, Egypt — Tucked away in Egypt’s Western Desert, the Shali fortress once protected inhabitants against the incursions of wandering tribe ...
Lebanon starts two weeks of restrictions to stem virus
Nov 15, 2020
BEIRUT — Lebanon started a new two-week lockdownon  Saturday after coronavirus infections crossed the 100,000 mark in a country where h ...
Tunisia-Libya border reopens after seven months
Nov 15, 2020
RAS JEDIR, Tunisia — Travellers began to cross between Tunisia and Libya again on Saturday after a seven-month border closure due to novel c ...
UN former envoy 'very optimistic' for peace in Libya
Nov 15, 2020
TUNIS — The UN's former envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, says he has higher hopes than ever of seeing an end to a decade of violence in the N ...
Iran mocks Al Qaeda No. 2 killed in Tehran report
Nov 14, 2020
TEHRAN — Iran on Saturday dismissed a US newspaper report that Al Qaeda’s second-in-command was killed in Tehran by Israeli agents as “made- ...
Morocco initiates operation to restore traffic at El Guergarat crossing
Nov 14, 2020
AMMAN — Faced with the serious and unacceptable provocations of the “Polisario” militias in the buffer zone of El Guergarate in the Moroccan ...
Russian delegation to visit Turkey for talks on Karabakh truce
Nov 13, 2020
ANKARA — A Russian delegation will visit Turkey on Friday to discuss the creation of a joint centre for monitoring a truce deal between Azer ...
Macron envoy in Lebanon to save French rescue plan
Nov 13, 2020
BEIRUT — An adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron met top Lebanese officials on Thursday in a desperate bid to save a plan Paris put f ...
Jerusalem renews 2010 settlement moves that angered Biden
Nov 12, 2020
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel has approved building of about 100 settlement homes at the same site where settlement expansion plans unveiled d ...
‘In our hearts’: radio keeps Syria refugees in Iraq close to home
Nov 12, 2020
ARBAT, Iraq — Speaking into a microphone in her modest studio, Sherin Mohammad goes live with the news. ...
Syrian refugees adapt to life in Iraqi UN camp controlled by Daesh
Oct 29, 2015
Cut off by Daesh advance, residents stranded in Syria's Aleppo
Oct 29, 2015
UN targets thousands in vaccination drive against cholera in Iraq
Oct 28, 2015
Iraqi Kurdish PM appoints new ministers after expulsions
Oct 28, 2015
No light at end of tunnel for Lebanon's power crisis
Oct 28, 2015
Libya helicopter shot down, killing nine
Oct 28, 2015
Yemen MSF says hospital hit by air raid, no casualties
Oct 27, 2015
‘Daesh advances on key regime town in northern Syrian’
Oct 27, 2015
Egyptians vote in run-offs with loyalists in the lead
Oct 27, 2015
Daesh blows up columns in Syria's Palmyra to execute 3 — monitor
Oct 27, 2015
343 UK academics announce Israeli universities boycott
Oct 27, 2015
Turkey rounds up more Daesh suspects, strikes Kurds in Syria
Oct 27, 2015
One dead in suicide attack at Saudi mosque — ministry
Oct 27, 2015
Murdered Iraq trade ministry official was about to expose corruption — officials
Oct 26, 2015
Turkey counts down to vote in climate of tension
Oct 25, 2015
Iraq Kurds release footage of US commando raid
Oct 25, 2015
Death toll in Libya anti-peace deal rally shelling hits 12
Oct 25, 2015
Omanis elect new council with limited powers
Oct 25, 2015
Syria must ‘eradicate terror’ for political deal — Assad
Oct 25, 2015
Blair concedes link between Iraq invasion and rise of Daesh
Oct 25, 2015
‘Militants kill Islamist election candidate in Egypt’s Sinai’
Oct 24, 2015
Shelling kills 5 at Libya rally against UN peace deal — medics
Oct 24, 2015

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