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Iran’s Top Leader Ali Khamenei Questions Holocaust Authenticity

The Supreme Leader of Iran marked Holocaust Memorial Day yesterday by publishing a video disputing the authenticity of the genocide on his official website. The...

Saudi Arabia plans new sovereign wealth fund

Saudi Arabia plans to create a new sovereign fund to manage part of its oil wealth and diversify its investments, and has asked investment...

Governor of Aden killed in Islamic State attack

Islamic State militants say they carried out a bombing that killed the governor of Yemen's port city of Aden. Jaafar Mohammed Saad and several aides...

Syrian terrorist list produces 163 names and no agreement

Major powers trying to forge a Syrian peace plan have made almost no progress on overcoming one of the main obstacles to ending the...

ISIS seizes villages north of Aleppo city, Syria

Islamic State militants seized several villages from rival insurgents north of Aleppo city Friday, in a surprise attack that came despite intensive Russian airstrikes...

British PM: differences over Assad's future narrowing

Differences in opinion over the future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been enormous but appear to be narrowing, British Prime Minister David Cameron...

Syrian army, Islamic State wage fierce battle in south Damascus

The Syrian army and its allies engaged in a fierce battle on Saturday with Islamic State fighters in an enclave south of Damascus held...

Body launches probe into airstrikes on Yemen school, hospital

Air strikes by Saudi-led forces in Yemen that hit a school and a hospital are being investigated by a body set up by the...

Saudi reopens Baghdad embassy after 25 years

Saudi Arabia reopened its embassy in Baghdad Tuesday, a quarter of a century after relations were broken over Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, a foreign...

Meeting held to push Syrian peace process forward in New York

Some 20 foreign ministers gathered Friday for the latest conference on Syria's civil war, hopeful about arranging a cease-fire and launching peace negotiations in...

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