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BRUSSELS: Syria’s President Bashar al Assad has revoked special visas for European Union diplomats and officials travelling regularly between Beirut

Khartoum: Sudanese police fired tear gas at crowds of demonstrators in the capital’s twin city Omdurman Tuesday protesting against the

Baghdad: An Iraqi scientist has claimed that he supervised the manufacture of lethal toxins for the IS group for a

Jerusalem: The Israeli and US defence ministries said on Tuesday they had successfully tested ballistic missile interceptors deployed at Israeli

Beirut: A bomber attacked a convoy of US troops and their allies in Syria on Monday, killing five members of

Sanaa: The UN envoy for Yemen landed in fighter-held Sanaa on Monday for talks aimed at shoring up a truce

BAGHDAD: Roaring along Baghdad’s highways, the “Iraq Bikers” are doing more than showing off their love of outsized motorcycles and

KHARTOUM: Sudanese security forces fired tear gas on Sunday at several hundred protesters and chased them down side streets, a

Cairo: A bomb exploded near a highway at the southern edge of Syria’s capital Damascus on Sunday morning, state media

Beirut: Four children were among at least six civilians killed in a US-led air strike on the IS group’s embattled

Khartoum: A group that is spearheading anti-government protests across Sudan on Saturday said it plans to launch more nationwide rallies

Khartoum: Hundreds of mourners launched a spontaneous anti-government demonstration on Friday as they returned from the funeral of a protester

Hebron: Israeli forces demolished the West Bank home on Friday of a Palestinian accused of the fatal September stabbing of

Darkush: The alleyways of the Syrian town of Darkush are normally thronged with pedestrians but since the swollen Orontes River

Khartoum: Sudanese police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters marching towards the presidential palace in Khartoum on Thursday, as

TUNIS: Thousands of Tunisian workers staged a nationwide walkout on Thursday, the latest in a series of protests in the

Amman: Yemeni government and fighter representatives met in Jordan on Thursday for a second day to thrash out the details

Khartoum: Sudanese police on Wednesday fired tear gas at crowds of anti-government protesters in Kassala, witnesses said, in the first

TAIZ: Its books have been looted and walls blown out, but a school in war-torn southern Yemen is hopeful that

Istanbul: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Ankara would set up a “security zone” in northern Syria