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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...
Security Forces Deny Access To Site of US Blast In Afghanistan
Security forceswere still blocking accessWednesday to the site in eastern Afghanistan where the US dropped a massive...
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...
Bomb In Syria’s Aleppo Kills Six, Injures 30
A bomb killed six people and wounded more than 30 in Syria's second city Aleppo on Wednesday, state television...
In Mosul, Iraqi Snipers Track Jihadists Around the Clock
A few hundred metres from an iconic mosque in west Mosul, Iraqi sniper Salah al-Zuheiri has his eye glued to his scope...
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...
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...
Syrians In Frantic Search For Their Children After Blast
Fatima Rashid was recovering in a Syrian hospital after a deadly suicide blast when she glanced at a teenager with a...
British MPs Call For Assad’s Wife To Lose Citizenship
UK lawmakers are calling on the government to strip Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's wife of her British citizenship,...
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...
‘At Least 68 Children Among 126 Killed’ In Bus Bombing
At least 68 children were among 126 people killed in Saturday’s bomb attack on buses carrying evacuees from besieged...
Christians Mark Easter At Jerusalem Site of Jesus’s Resurrection
Thousands of Christians marked Jesus's resurrection on Easter Sunday at the Jerusalem site where they believe the...
Philippines, US To Hold Annual ‘Balikatan’ Military Drills
The Philippine military said Sunday it would hold annual exercises with US troops next month, reaffirming its...
Pope Urges End To Syria ‘horror’ In Easter Address
Pope Francis urged an end to "horror and death" in Syria on Sunday as he celebrated the traditional Easter Day mass in...
Top US Official McMaster Visits Afghanistan After Bomb Attack
US National Security Advisor Gen. H. R McMaster arrived in Kabul on Sunday days after the American military dropped its...
Syria Evacuees Bomb Attack Death Toll Rises To 112
The death toll in a suicide car bomb attack on buses carrying Syrians evacuated from two besieged government-held towns...
Iraq Forces Make Mosul Gains, But Anti-IS War Far From Over
Iraqi forces made major gains in the six months since launching the operation to retake Mosul, but the battle for...
Syria’s Assad Is An ‘arch-Terrorist’
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is an "arch-terrorist" and it is time Russia realised he is "literally and...
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...