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IDLIB, Syria: Hundreds of Syrian civilians fled Idlib province on Thursday as the presidents of Russia, Iran and Turkey readied

BASRA: Iraq’s main seaport closed down on Thursday following clashes between protesters and security forces in the nearby southern city

JUBA: A South Sudan military court on Thursday found 10 soldiers guilty for their role in an attack on a

BEIRUT: The Syrian military shelled the last stronghold of active rebellion against President Bashar al Assad on Wednesday as a

KIRKUK: All are welcome to attend free English language discussions and lessons in Sami Sulaiman’s bookshop — on the strict

BEIRUT: A Syrian rebel and a war monitor said Russian air strikes had resumed against insurgents in Syria’s northwestern Idlib

ADEN: Yemenis file into a makeshift cinema for the first time since fighting broke out in their city of Aden

TEL AVIV: Millions of Palestinian refugees “cannot simply be wished away”, the head of a UN support agency said on

BAGHDAD: Rival Iraqi political factions said they had each formed alliances capable of forming a government in the new parliament

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s central bank signalled on Monday it would take action against “significant risks” to price stability, a rare move

CAIRO: Archaeologists in Egypt say they have found one of the oldest-known villages in the Nile Delta dating back to

RIYADH: A Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said it accepted that an air attack last month that killed dozens of people,

ATHENS: Sarah Mardini, one of two Syrian sisters who saved over a dozen refugees in 2015 by pulling their sinking

DUBAI: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday war was unlikely but called on Iran’s armed forces to

BEIRUT: As Syrian President Bashar al Assad attempts to turn military success into postwar reconstruction, Western sanctions are a major

GAZA STRIP: Palestinians reacted angrily on Saturday to a US decision to end all funding for the UN agency that

ANKARA: Turkey raised natural gas prices on Saturday by as much as 14 per cent, two sources said, while the

RAS KARKAR: Israeli security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Friday at Palestinians protesting against land seizures for

BEIRUT: Rebels from Idlib have blown up two key bridges in a bid to hamper an expected government assault on

SANAA: Yemen faces a possible third wave of a cholera epidemic, the UN warned, following a jump in the number