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Tech Firms Urge Court To Toss Trump Travel Ban

Scores of technology firms including Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft joined a legal filing urging a judge to...

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US Reviews ‘failed’ Iran Nuclear Deal

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson branded the Iran nuclear deal a failure Wednesday as President Donald Trump ordered...

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Thousands Evacuated After Deadly Syria Bombing

Thousands of Syrians were evacuated from besieged towns on Wednesday with tight security in place after a weekend...

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Pentagon Chief Warns of Yemen ‘Hezbollah’

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis warned Wednesday of Iranian efforts to create a Yemeni militia "in the image" of...

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Yemeni Protestors March On Key Port To Demand Humanitarian Zone

A group of Yemeni protestors set out from rebel-held capital Sanaa Wednesday on a 225-kilometre (140-mile) march to...

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‘Friendly Fire’ Downed Saudi Helicopter In Yemen

A Saudi military helicopter that crashed in Yemen killing 12 Saudi soldiers was likely hit by "friendly fire", military...

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Iran Guards Member Begins Work As Iraq Ambassador

In a sign of the growing regional influence of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, a close advisor to its foreign operations...

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US Pentagon Chief Meets Saudi King With Iran In Focus

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis met Saudi King Salman on Wednesday, beginning a series of talks to reinvigorate the...

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Iran Blocks Telegram App Voice Calls

Iran's judiciary has blocked newly introduced voice calls on Telegram, the most popular messaging app in the country,...

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Syria Evacuations Resume After Deadly Bombing

The evacuation of civilians and fighters from besieged Syrian towns resumed on Wednesday after a weekend bombing at a...

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Trump Administration To Review Iran Sanctions Relief

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said he has told Congress of plans to review whether sanctions relief given to Iran...

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Mattis In Riyadh To Boost US-Saudi Alliance

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is in Saudi Arabia Wednesday to reinvigorate the Riyadh-Washington alliance, with both...

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Twelve Soldiers Dead As Saudi Helicopter Goes Down In Yemen

Twelve Saudi soldiers, including four officers, were killed on Tuesday when their helicopter went down in Yemen, the...

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Oil Output Cuts Pressure Mideast Economic Growth

Economic growth in Saudi Arabia and most other Arab oil exporters will slow this year following production cuts aimed...

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Dozens of Children Dead In Syria Evacuees Bombing

Nearly 70 children were among those killed when a suicide car bombing tore through buses carrying evacuees from...

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Registration to run in Iran's election on May 19 closed on Saturday, with more than 1,600 hopefuls throwing their hats...

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Huge Bomb Kills Dozens of Evacuees In Syria

A huge car bomb has blasted a convoy of coaches carrying evacuees from government-held towns in Syria, killing at least...

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Iran Election Sign-Up Closes With Mayor’s Last-Minute Entry

Registration for next month's Iranian presidential election closed on Saturday, with more than 1,600 hopefuls signing...

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Explosion Kills Evacuees In Bus Convoy Near Aleppo

Dozens of people trying to escape villages close to the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo have been killed in an...