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UN's Libya envoy warns Tripoli fight could spark 'conflagration'
Apr 18, 2019
TRIPOLI — The UN's Libya envoy warned Thursday of "a widening conflagration" in the North African country, saying international divisions had encouraged strongman Khalifa Haftar to launch his assault on Tripoli.Despite days of heaving fighting, Ghassan Salame told AFP there was a stalemate south of the capital between Haftar's self-styled Libyan Na ...
Army shelling kills 10 in Syria's Idlib — monitor
Apr 18, 2019
BEIRUT — Regime shelling killed 10 civilians in Syria's militant-controlled Idlib reg ...
UN voices alarm at Bahrain decision to strip 138 of nationality
Apr 18, 2019
GENEVA — The UN human rights chief expressed alarm Thursday at Bahrain's decision thi ...
Iran’s Rouhani calls on Mideast states to ‘drive back Zionism’
Apr 18, 2019
TEHRAN — Iran's President Hassan Rouhani called on Middle East states on Thursday to "drive back Zionism", in an army day tirade against the ...
South Sudan willing to talk to those seeking unity government delay — foreign minister
Apr 18, 2019
DUBAI — South Sudan is willing to enter into dialogue with opposition groups seeking a delay in forming a unity government, b ...
Protesters throng Khartoum a week after Bashir ouster
Apr 18, 2019
KHARTOUM — Protesters thronged the Sudanese capital Khartoum Thursday to mark one week since the army ousted president Omar Al Bashir, deter ...
Turkey council confirms ban on pro-Kurdish elected officials
Apr 18, 2019
ANKARA — Turkey’s supreme electoral council on Thursday upheld a ban on candidates from a pro-Kurdish party taking office after they won loc ...
Sudan’s Darfur refugees wonder when their turn will come
Apr 18, 2019
HADJER HADID, Chad — ”When we arrived here, there were TV crews and photographers, but now nobody comes,” said Abdallah, amazed to see a jou ...
Fake news war: in Libya, battles also rage on social media
Apr 18, 2019
TRIPOLI — On Libya’s front lines fighters often hold a gun in one hand and a smartphone in the other, using their cameras in the propag ...
Turkey opposition win in disputed Istanbul vote confirmed — party
Apr 17, 2019
ISTANBUL — Turkish election officials on Wednesday officially confirmed opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu’s win over President Recep Tayyi ...
Algeria protests loosen stranglehold on media
Apr 17, 2019
ALGEIRS — Weeks of anti-government protests have helped Algerian journalists shake off the chokehold of state-imposed censorship but th ...
Sudan's Bashir moved to prison as protesters rally
Apr 17, 2019
KHARTOUM — Sudan's military rulers have transferred ousted president Omar Al Bashir to prison, a family source said Wednesday, as an array o ...
Yemen's Houthi rebels say Trump veto proves US behind war
Apr 17, 2019
SANAA — Yemen's Houthi rebels Wednesday slammed US President Donald Trump's veto of a Congress resolution directing him to end support for t ...
UN tells Yemen parties to pull back from Hodeida
Apr 18, 2019
Iraq frees Frenchman, says entered Syria to ‘support Yazidis’
Apr 18, 2019
Butterflies swarm Lebanon’s meadows in numbers unseen for 100 years
Apr 18, 2019
Fugitive Saudi sisters agree to apply for asylum in Georgia
Apr 18, 2019
UAE hails ‘strategic’ Trump veto of Yemen war bill
Apr 17, 2019
Washington will not remove Sudan from terror list while military rules — US official
Apr 17, 2019
Palestinian economy in 'crisis' over Israel standoff — World Bank
Apr 17, 2019
Haftar's push for Libyan capital stirs int'l rifts
Apr 16, 2019
Algerian rights lawyer Mustapha Bouchachi, a leading voice for change
Apr 16, 2019
Bahrain jails 138 for planning Iran-linked ‘terror’ group
Apr 16, 2019
Sudan protest leaders demand scrapping of military council
Apr 15, 2019
Israel's president starts consultations on prime minister nomination
Apr 15, 2019
Egypt parliament to vote today on constitutional changes — speaker
Apr 15, 2019
‘French-made tanks and howitzer canons used in Yemeni war’
Apr 15, 2019
Struggle over leadership deepens divisions in Tunisia president's party
Apr 15, 2019
Israeli delegation cancels visit to Bahrain after outcry
Apr 15, 2019
Algeria magistrates to boycott election
Apr 13, 2019
Israel raid wounds three in central Syria — state media
Apr 13, 2019
UN ‘gravely concerned’ over Tunisia detention of Libya expert
Apr 13, 2019
Lebanon seizes 800,000 stimulant pills in major drug bust
Apr 13, 2019
Pompeo urges release of US activists for Saudi women's rights
Apr 12, 2019
Historic water levels at Iraq reservoirs and dams — officials
Apr 11, 2019

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