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Yemen sides meet on Hodeida for first time in months
Jul 15, 2019
HODEIDA, Yemen — Representatives from Yemen's government and Houthi rebels tasked with pulling forces out of the key port city of Hodeida met on Sunday for the first time in five months.The redeployment from Hodeida is a critical part of a ceasefire deal reached in December in Sweden that calls on the government and the Houthis to move forces away ...
Qatar opens biggest coast guard base
Jul 15, 2019
SEMAISIMA, Qatar — Qatar inaugurated its largest coast guard base on Sunday as a stan ...
Sudan paramilitaries shoot dead civilian — doctors
Jul 15, 2019
KHARTOUM — Members of a feared Sudanese paramilitary force shot dead a civilian on Su ...
Egyptian delegation seeks to prevent new Gaza flare-up
Jul 15, 2019
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — Egyptian security officials have held talks with Palestinian leaders in recent days in part to prevent a ...
Agony of Yazidi women torn between kids, or return home
Jul 14, 2019
BAADRE, Iraq — Freed after years in captivity, Jihan faced an agonising ultimatum: abandon her three small children fathered by a Daesh figh ...
Algeria army arrests five on suspicion of planning ‘attacks’
Jul 14, 2019
ALGIERS — The Algerian army has arrested five suspects for planning “attacks” against anti-government demonstrations that have swept th ...
Britain sends second warship to Gulf after Iran tanker standoff
Jul 14, 2019
LONDON — Britain said Friday it was sending a second warship to the Gulf and raising the alert level in the oil-rich region as tensions spik ...
26 killed in deadly Somalia hotel siege
Jul 13, 2019
MOGADISHU — Twenty-six people were killed and 56 injured in a 12-hour attack by Al Shabaab extremists on a popular hotel that ended early Sa ...
For Palestinian family, tunnel under Israel barrier leads home
Jul 13, 2019
AL WALAJAH, Palestinian Territories — On one side of the Israeli separation barrier sits the Hajajla family's home. ...
Hizbollah warns Iran able to bombard Israel if war started
Jul 13, 2019
BEIRUT — The head of Lebanon's Tehran-backed Hizbollah said on Friday that US ally Israel would not be “spared” if a war broke out between t ...
Ancient Pharaonic harp strums along to new tune
Jul 13, 2019
PORT SAID, Egypt — When Mohamed Ghaly's workshop was reduced to rubble in February, he could never imagine that a new cultural centre dedica ...
Egypt opens two ancient pyramids, unveils new finds
Jul 13, 2019
DASHSHUR, Egypt — Egypt on Saturday opened two ancient pyramids south of the capital Cairo and unveiled a collection of newly found sarcopha ...
Turkey receives first Russian missile delivery risking deepening rift with US
Jul 13, 2019
ISTANBUL — Turkey received the first batch of Russia's S-400 missile defence system on Friday, sparking NATO "concern" and risking deepening ...
European powers urge dialogue, end to escalation in Iran nuclear crisis
Jul 15, 2019
Turkish Cypriot leader proposes joint energy committee
Jul 13, 2019
Morocco trial for murder of Scandinavian hikers nears verdict
Jul 12, 2019
A timeline of escalation in the Gulf
Jul 11, 2019
Islamist elected new speaker of Algeria's parliament
Jul 11, 2019
Paris says its missiles found on pro-Haftar base in Libya
Jul 11, 2019
Anti-Hizbollah sanctions 'aggression' on Lebanon — speaker
Jul 11, 2019
Internet on mobile services restored in Sudan
Jul 10, 2019
US puts Hizbollah lawmakers on sanctions blacklist for first time
Jul 10, 2019
Dozens hurt as 5.7 magnitude earthquake shakes Iran
Jul 09, 2019
British Museum announces return of looted Iraqi and Afghan artefacts
Jul 09, 2019
Germany says no to US request for ground troops in Syria
Jul 09, 2019
Iraq launches new operation to secure desert near Syria border
Jul 08, 2019
Union to take legal action over think tank report
Jul 08, 2019
Images of since-‘erased’ Sudanese protest art shown in London
Jul 07, 2019
Iran hints it could enrich uranium to 5 per cent
Jul 06, 2019
Syria Kurds host conference on Daesh detainees
Jul 06, 2019
Algeria's interim president proposes talks without 'state' role
Jul 05, 2019
200 corpses found in mass grave in Syria’s Raqqa — official
Jul 04, 2019
Iran to bypass uranium enrichment maximum despite calls for rethink
Jul 04, 2019
New daily bucks trend in Lebanon
Jul 02, 2019
'Iran exceeds enriched uranium stockpile limit'
Jul 02, 2019

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