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Lebanon Cabinet fast-tracks reforms but protests rage on
Oct 21, 2019
BEIRUT — Lebanon's teetering government approved an economic rescue plan on Monday but the last-ditch move was met with deep distrust from a ...
Turkey outlines 'safe zone' plan ahead of key deadline
Oct 21, 2019
ANKARA — Turkey outlined on Monday its plans for a 120-kilometre "safe zone" in Syria on the eve of a key withdrawal deadline, as President ...
Long-persecuted Yazidis welcome new ‘sanctuary’ temple
Oct 21, 2019
AKNALICH, Armenia — Yazidis, an ancient ethnic group much persecuted for their faith, now have a massive new temple in Armenia to help prese ...
Thousands of Sudanese call for dissolving Bashir’s party
Oct 21, 2019
KHARTOUM — Thousands of Sudanese rallied in several cities including the capital Khartoum on Monday, urging the country’s new authoriti ...
Hundreds of thousands take over streets as Lebanon's protests grow
Oct 20, 2019
BEIRUT — Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese took to the streets to condemn political stasis and corruption on Sunday, the largest in four day ...
Kurdish fighters withdraw from besieged Syria town
Oct 20, 2019
RAS AL AIN, Syria — The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fully withdrew from a Turkish-encircled town in northern Syria on Sunday, ...
Let extremists return home, French anti-terror magistrate urges
Oct 20, 2019
PARIS — The refusal of the French government to take back Daesh fighters from Syria could fuel a new recruitment drive in France, ...
Lack of food pushes South Sudan  opposition troops to desert training camps
Oct 20, 2019
PANTIT, South Sudan — Hundreds of South Sudan opposition fighters are leaving cantonment sites set up to register and train t ...
Tens of thousands protest in Lebanon for third day
Oct 19, 2019
BEIRUT — Tens of thousands of Lebanese people took to the streets Saturday for a third day of protests against tax increases and alleged off ...
Turkey, Kurds trade accusations even as Syria truce takes hold
Oct 19, 2019
RAS AL AIN, Syria — Turkish and Kurdish leaders accused each other of violating a US-brokered truce in northeastern Syria even as it appeare ...
Israel PM under fire over son’s Norwegian girlfriend
Jan 26, 2014
Moroccans sew mouths shut in fresh protest at Italy detention
Jan 26, 2014
Israeli defence ministry computer hacked via tainted e-mail — cyber firm
Jan 26, 2014
South Sudan ceasefire ‘shaky’ — Norwegian FM
Jan 26, 2014
Israeli jailed for espionage goes free after 26 months
Jan 26, 2014
‘Talks to free South African hostage in Yemen collapse’
Jan 26, 2014
Lebanon Sunnis refuse to join Hizbollah-Al Qaeda war — Hariri
Jan 25, 2014
Conflicts linger as Yemen concludes thorny dialogue
Jan 25, 2014
British police say volunteers going to Syria war will face arrest
Jan 25, 2014
Jihadist announces creation of ISIL branch in Lebanon
Jan 25, 2014
UAE president stable after stroke – ministry
Jan 25, 2014
Four more Egypt embassy staff kidnapped in Tripoli: Libya
Jan 25, 2014
Morocco scraps law allowing rapists to marry young victims
Jan 23, 2014
Abbas seeks $1 billion Gaza deal with Russia
Jan 23, 2014
European businesses rushing to find Iran bonanza
Jan 23, 2014
Iraq hangs 11 convicted of terrorism
Jan 23, 2014
Iraq shelling kills four; US pushes ‘political’ steps
Jan 23, 2014
Lebanon army kills ‘Al Qaeda-linked jihadist’
Jan 23, 2014
Egypt ‘surprised’ by exclusion from US-Africa summit
Jan 23, 2014
South Sudan accuses rebels of massacring 127 hospital patients
Jan 23, 2014
Israel says it cracks Palestinian Al Qaeda cell in Jerusalem
Jan 23, 2014
Algerian forces flood desert city to calm violence
Jan 23, 2014

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