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US does not want to be 'policeman of the Middle East': Trump 20 Dec 2018 - 03:54 pm
FILE PHOTO: US President Donald Trump.  AFP / MANDEL NGAN
Health ministry pick to widen Hezbollah role in Lebanese state 20 Dec 2018 - 03:41 pm
FILE PHOTO: Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri . Reinhard Krause/File Photo
Sudanese security forces fire teargas after hundreds protest in Atbara 20 Dec 2018 - 01:25 pm
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US ally in Syria says pullout will aid IS, cause instability 20 Dec 2018 - 01:17 pm
A Coalition convoy of U.S. led international coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stops to test fire their M2 machine guns and MK19 grenade launcher in the Middle Euphrates River Valley in the Deir ez-Zor province, Syria, Nove
France says to stay in Syria after US troops ordered home 20 Dec 2018 - 12:12 pm
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Pentagon says it starts process of returning U.S. troops from Syria 19 Dec 2018 - 08:24 pm
FILE PHOTO: In this file photo taken on May 08, 2018 shows vehicles and structures of the US-backed coalition forces in the northern Syrian town of Manbij. AFP / Delil souleiman
Iraq, Jordan to open new border crossings next year 19 Dec 2018 - 07:01 pm
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Trump says goal of defeating IS in Syria achieved 19 Dec 2018 - 05:53 pm
U.S. President Donald Trump leads a roundtable discussion on school safety and the new Federal Commission on School Safety report, with family members of shooting victims, state and local officials, in the Roosevelt Room on December 18, 2018 in Washington
Lebanon cabinet to be unveiled later this week: Sources 19 Dec 2018 - 05:33 pm
FILE PHOTO: A general view shows Beirut's Corniche, a seaside promenade(R) at sunset in Beirut, Lebanon May 3, 2016. REUTERS/Alia Haju
Lebanon finance, foreign ministers to stay in new cabinet: senior official 19 Dec 2018 - 05:00 pm
Lebanon's Caretaker Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil speaks during a meeting in Beirut, Lebanon June 19, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
U.S. weighs complete withdrawal of troops from Syria - U.S. officials 19 Dec 2018 - 04:41 pm
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Israeli PM's son gets temporary ban on Facebook 16 Dec 2018 - 09:03 pm
Yair Netanyahu observes his father Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reading a prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem' Old City. (Ronen Zvulun / Reuters)
Iraq lays cornerstone to rebuild iconic Mosul mosque 16 Dec 2018 - 03:19 pm
A picture taken on December 16, 2018, shows people attending the placing of the cornerstone ceremony for the rebuilding of the Great Mosque of Al-Nuri and
Bomb kills 8 in Syrian town held by Turkey-backed forces 16 Dec 2018 - 02:42 pm
A Turkish-backed Syrian Arab fighter tows a looted vehicle with a tractor after seizing control of the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) on March 18, 2018. AFP / BULENT KILIC
Archaeologists find 4,400-year-old tomb south of Cairo 15 Dec 2018 - 04:33 pm
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US Official: 'End days' nearing for Islamic State in Syria 15 Dec 2018 - 04:16 pm
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Australia recognises west Jerusalem as capital of Israel 15 Dec 2018 - 09:59 am
(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 24, 2018 Australia's incoming Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks at a press conference in Canberra. AFP / SAEED KHAN
Tunisia 'truth commission' calls for govt to back courts judging torturers 15 Dec 2018 - 12:41 am
Members of Tunisia's Free Destourian Party (Free Constitutional Party) shout slogans and hold up protest signs and portraits of late president Habib Bourguiba as they demonstrate against the Truth and Dignity Commission (TDC) outside its closing conferenc