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Palestinian prisoners in Israel call off planned hunger strike
Sep 16, 2021
RAMALLAH — Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have called off a planned hunger strike later this week involving some 1,400 inmates after their demands were met, a Palestinian group said Wednesday.Tensions have been running high since six militants staged a dramatic escape from a high-security jail in northern Israel on September 6, via a tunnel ...
Rights groups urge international probe into Beirut port blast
Sep 16, 2021
BEIRUT — More than 140 human rights groups, survivors and relatives of victims of the ...
Air strikes kill three pro-Iran fighters in Syria — monitor
Sep 16, 2021
BEIRUT — Air strikes from unidentified drones killed three pro-Iran fighters in Syria ...
Libya has ‘best opportunity’ for peace in decade — US official
Sep 16, 2021
TRIPOLI — War-torn Libya has its best chance for peace since the fall of Muammar Qadhafi, a senior US diplomat said on Wednesday, urging riv ...
1,400 Palestinians in Israel jails to hold hunger strike
Sep 15, 2021
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — Almost 1,400 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are to go on hunger strike in protest at their detenti ...
Syria 'bleak' with violence upsurge, economic woes — UN
Sep 15, 2021
GENEVA — The upsurge in violence in Syria, combined with its plummeting economy, is making life increasingly bleak for civilians, United Nat ...
Morocco dismantles Daesh-linked cell, arrests three
Sep 14, 2021
RABAT — Moroccan authorities have dismantled a cell of Daesh group-affiliated militants and arrested three suspects accused of plotting an a ...
Afghan Hazaras studying in Iraq fear return home to Taliban rule
Sep 14, 2021
NAJAF, Iraq — Many Afghans from the Hazara ethnic minority studying in Iraq’s city of Najaf watched in terror as their homeland fell back in ...
Lebanon's new Cabinet holds first meeting
Sep 13, 2021
BEIRUT — Lebanon's newly-formed government held its first meeting on Monday to discuss ways of rescuing the country from one of its worst ev ...
COVID cases spike in Syria's Idlib
Sep 13, 2021
BEIRUT — Cases of COVID-19 have increased alarmingly over the past month in Syria's rebel-controlled northern region of Idlib, local authori ...
Bennett meets Sisi on first Egypt visit by Israeli PM in decade
Sep 13, 2021
CAIRO — Israel's Naftali Bennett met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi on Monday, on the first visit to the North African country by a ...
Tunis residents decry beaches too polluted for swimming
Sep 13, 2021
EZZAHRA, Tunisia — Tahar Jaouebi looks out from a beach south of Tunis remembering the 1990s, when the water was still clean enough to bathe ...
Uneasy calm in Syria's Daraa after truce
Sep 12, 2021
DARAA, Syria — An uneasy calm held sway in a southern Syrian city Sunday after the army entered a former rebel holdout under a surrender dea ...

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