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World / Middle East

Syria violence interrupts food distribution in some areas 11 Jun 2019 - 04:27 pm
Fighters with the Turkish-backed National Liberation Front (NLF) hold a position near tyres set ablaze to create a smoke screen against air strikes by regime forces, in Syria's Hama province on June 6, 2019. / AFP / OMAR HAJ KADOUR
Iran frees Lebanese national convicted of spying for US 11 Jun 2019 - 03:58 pm
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In Syria's breadbasket, Kurds and regime battle for wheat 11 Jun 2019 - 02:52 pm
A picture taken on May 21, 2019, shows a combine harvester harvesting a wheat field in Syria's northeastern region of Hasakeh. AFP / DELIL SOULEIMAN
Japan PM Abe to meet Iran's Khamenei, Rouhani this week 11 Jun 2019 - 09:17 am
FILE PHOTO: Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greets Iran's President Hassan Rouhani (R) during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 22, 2014. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
4 killed on first day of Sudan 'civil disobedience': doctors 09 Jun 2019 - 06:07 pm
Sudanese security forces drive through the main road linking Omdurman with its twin city Khartoum on the first day of a civil disobedience campaign across Sudan on June 9, 2019.  AFP
11 killed in Sudan's capital amid civil disobedience 09 Jun 2019 - 05:15 pm
A Sudanese woman walks past closed shops in a commercial street in Khartoum's twin city Omdurman on the first day of a civil disobedience campaign across Sudan on June 9, 2019.  AFP
Syrian rebel town buries goalie who became "singer of the revolution" 09 Jun 2019 - 04:54 pm
Syrians waving rebel flags and portraits of Abdelbasset al-Sarout during the funeral of the late rebel fighter in al-Dana in Syria's jihadist-controlled Idlib region, near the border with Turkey.  AFP / OMAR HAJ KADOUR
Sudan's protesters launch general strike after crackdown 09 Jun 2019 - 02:21 pm
Sudanese soldiers stand guard a street in Khartoum on June 9, 2019. Sudanese police fired tear gas Sunday at protesters taking part in the first day of a civil disobedience campaign, called in the wake of a deadly crackdown on demonstrators. AFP
Iran considers request for release of Lebanese prisoner 09 Jun 2019 - 02:02 pm
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Iran urges Europe to normalise economic ties with it or face consequences 09 Jun 2019 - 09:19 am
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Sudan protest group calls nationwide 'civil disobedience' 08 Jun 2019 - 07:44 pm
Sudanese protesters burn tyres and set up barricades on roads to army headquarters after the intervention of Sudanese army, during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan on June 3, 2019. Mahmoud Hjaj - Anadolu
Star footballer turned rebel icon dies in Syria fighting 08 Jun 2019 - 05:47 pm
The late Syrian rebel fighter Abdel-Basset al-Sarout (L) singing during a rally to commemorate the beginning of the Syrian revoltion, in the town of Maaret al-Numan in the jihadist-held Idlib province. AFP / OMAR HAJ KADOUR
German FM in Iraq for talks on Mideast tensions 08 Jun 2019 - 04:30 pm
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas sits in the C-160 Transall military plane at the airport in Baghdad, Iraq, June 8, 2019. REUTERS/Sabine Seibold
Syria flare-up kills over 100 fighters: monitor 07 Jun 2019 - 08:16 pm
People gather around the wreckage of shops after a terror attack with a bomb-laden vehicle carried out in Azez district of Aleppo, Syria on June 02, 2019. According to reports at least 14 civilians were killed after the attack. (Saher el Hacci/Anadolu Age
Iran rejects French call for wider talks beyond nuclear deal 07 Jun 2019 - 08:15 pm
Algeria and Sudan: new chapters of Arab revolt 06 Jun 2019 - 07:56 pm
People carry national flags during a protest to demand the removal of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers, Algeria, March 29, 2019. Reuters/Ramzi Boudina
Sudanese vow to keep up protests after crackdown 06 Jun 2019 - 07:56 pm
A Sudanese protester holds a national flag as he stands on a barricade along a street, demanding that the country's Transitional Military Council hand over power to civilians, in Khartoum, Sudan June 5, 2019. Reuters
Khartoum residents in 'state of terror' after bloody crackdown 06 Jun 2019 - 07:56 pm
Sudanese drivers wait to fill their tuk-tuk at a petrol station amid a fuel shortage in the capital Khartoum on June 6, 2019. AFP