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Algeria orders early university holiday as students spur protests 09 Mar 2019 - 04:09 pm
Algerian female protesters shout slogans during a demonstration in the capital Algiers against ailing president's bid for a fifth term on March 8, 2019.  AFP / RYAD KRAMDI
Algeria police deny deaths in Friday demos 09 Mar 2019 - 02:44 pm
Thousands of people stage a protest march against the candidacy of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika for a fifth term in Algiers, Algeria on March 08, 2019. Farouk Batiche - Anadolu
British IS runaway teen's baby son dies in Syria 09 Mar 2019 - 01:44 pm
A boy looks out of a truck tarp near the village of Baghouz, Deir Al Zor province, in Syria March 7, 2019. Picture taken March 7, 2019. REUTERS/Rodi Said
Palestinian killed, 42 others injured at Gaza border 08 Mar 2019 - 11:21 pm
Palestinian throws a stone with a slingshot towards Israeli security forces during the
Tens of thousands protest in Algeria as Bouteflika stays defiant 08 Mar 2019 - 11:21 pm
People protest against Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in Algiers, Algeria March 8, 2019. The sign reads:
Ankara says Turkey, Russia patrols begin around Idlib 08 Mar 2019 - 01:52 pm
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Bouteflika warns against 'chaos' as protests challenge election bid 07 Mar 2019 - 11:29 pm
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (AFP/Alain Jocard)
Syria force braces for new outflux from last IS village 07 Mar 2019 - 03:52 pm
Civilians evacuated from the Islamic State (IS) group's embattled holdout of Baghouz wait at a screening area held by the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, on March 5, 2019.   AFP / Bulent
Algerian lawyers take to the streets to back anti-Bouteflika protests 07 Mar 2019 - 01:30 pm
Police attempt to disperse lawyers trying to force their way to the constitutional council during a protest to denounce an offer by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run in elections next month but not to serve a full term if re-elected, in Algiers, Alger
Tunisia sets dates for autumn elections 06 Mar 2019 - 07:46 pm
Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi (Reuters)
Syria force nets 400 jihadists trying to flee enclave 06 Mar 2019 - 05:15 pm
Women and children queue at a screening point as hundreds of civilians, who streamed out of the Islamic State group's last Syrian stronghold, arrive in an area run by US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces outside Baghouz in the eastern Syrian Deir Ezzor prov
Angry and defiant, IS families surrender in Syria 06 Mar 2019 - 04:31 pm
Men suspected of being Islamic State (IS) group fighters walk together towards a screening point for new arrivals run by US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, where suspected jihadists -- many of them wounded -- were being interrogated outside Baghouz in th
Algeria police brace for further anti-Bouteflika demos 06 Mar 2019 - 04:05 pm
Algerian protestors face anti-riot police during a demonstration in the northern coastal city of Oran, on March 5, 2019 against the ailing president's bid for a fifth term. AFP
Dying IS 'caliphate' empties itself of last survivors 06 Mar 2019 - 01:20 pm
Civilians who streamed out of the Islamic State group's last Syrian stronghold sit at a screening point for new arrivals run by US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces outside Baghouz in the eastern Syrian Deir Ezzor province on March 5, 2019. AFP / Delil SOUL
French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain killed in Syria: wife 05 Mar 2019 - 04:02 pm
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Syria force to resume evacuations after piercing last IS redoubt 05 Mar 2019 - 02:28 pm
People who fled the Islamic State group's last holdout of Baghouz, in Syria's northern Deir Ezzor province, ride in the back of trucks in an area controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Foces (SDF) on March 4, 2019.  AFP / Bulent KILIC
Syrian army attacks Islamic State targets in desert - report 05 Mar 2019 - 12:08 pm
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Iran foreign minister was not informed about Assad trip to Tehran: spokesman 05 Mar 2019 - 09:19 am
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