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Putin calls for summit of key UN Security Council members
Jan 23, 2020
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Russian President Vladimir Putin called Thursday for a summit of leaders of the five permanent members of the UN Securi ...
Daesh resurgence possible if US leaves Iraq — general
Jan 23, 2020
WASHINGTON — The Daesh group is weakened but a resurgence is possible if the United States leaves Iraq, US Major General Alexus Grynkewich, ...
Lebanon PM says new Cabinet faces 'catastrophe'
Jan 23, 2020
BEIRUT — Lebanon faces a "catastrophe", Prime Minister Hassan Diab said Wednesday after his newly unveiled Cabinet held its first meeting to ...
Iraq activist shot dead as protesters block roads
Jan 23, 2020
BASRA, Iraq — An anti-government activist was killed in Iraq's south by unidentified gunmen, amid a resurgence of rallies and road closures ...
Macron loses cool with Israeli forces in ‘Chirac moment’
Jan 23, 2020
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — When French President Emmanuel Macron visited Jerusalem's Old City on Wednesday, he also trod in the footsteps of one o ...
Rockets target Libya airport ahead of regional peace talks
Jan 23, 2020
Tripoli — Rocket fire targeted the Libyan capital's sole functioning airport on Wednesday, dealing another setback to peace efforts a day be ...
Scepticism over Lebanon's 'technocratic' Cabinet
Jan 23, 2020
BEIRUT — Lebanon's new prime minister claims to lead a government of technocrats, but critics argue the line-up is window dressing for a set ...
Iraq Sunni leaders spooked by US troop pullout
Jan 23, 2020
BAGHDAD — Sunni Iraqi leaders who spearheaded a bloody insurgency against the 2003 US-led invasion are now the most nervous about a possible ...
Iraqi protester killed as youth keep up pressure on gov't
Jan 21, 2020
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi protester was killed in Baghdad on Tuesday, medics said, as angry young people reignited a three-month-old protest moveme ...
Eight EU nations back naval force to patrol Strait of Hormuz
Jan 21, 2020
PARIS — The French foreign ministry said Monday that eight European Union nations had given their "political support" for a new naval patrol ...
Iran receptive to new nuke proposal — diplomats
Sep 20, 2014
49 Turks kidnapped by IS militants freed
Sep 20, 2014
Egypt’s Sisi ready to back anti-IS fight
Sep 20, 2014
Egypt targets last bastion of Muslim Brotherhood dissent
Sep 18, 2014
Libya's elected parliament rejects PM's new Cabinet as oil sector takes hit
Sep 18, 2014
Israel believes Syria kept 'significant' chemical munitions
Sep 18, 2014
France rules out military action in Syria, prepares Iraq strikes
Sep 18, 2014
West tells Iran it must address nuclear bomb fears
Sep 18, 2014
US Senate ready to support Obama on Syrian rebel aid
Sep 18, 2014
Libya, neighbour nations snub military intervention
Sep 17, 2014
UN envoy presses Yemen rebel leader for new talks with gov’t
Sep 17, 2014
Emir assures Merkel Qatar does not fund extremists in Syria, Iraq
Sep 17, 2014
West Bank Jewish settler population soars — settlers
Sep 16, 2014
Gaza mortar fire on Israel for first time since truce — army
Sep 16, 2014
‘Turkey would welcome Muslim Brotherhood figures who leave Qatar’
Sep 16, 2014
Iran nuclear talks: bridging the gaps in New York
Sep 16, 2014
Yemen clashes between Shiite rebels and tribesmen kill 22 — sources
Sep 16, 2014
Saudi Arabia sentences 2 to death, jails 13 for terrorism
Sep 16, 2014
UN withdraws many peacekeepers from Golan Heights
Sep 15, 2014
Splinter group breaks from Al Qaeda in North Africa
Sep 15, 2014
Gulf ‘black sheep’ Qatar steps back in line on Brotherhood
Sep 14, 2014
Britain vows to hunt down ‘evil’ killers of aid worker
Sep 14, 2014

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