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A strong rebound in the Gulf’s stock markets

The Saudi bourse which jumped on Thursday 7.1 percent, as oil prices bounced after heavy losses. Energy giant Aramco, which dominates the Saudi Tadawul market,...

Submarine-launched missile hits ISIS: Russia

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that Russia had for the first time struck Islamic State targets in Syria with missiles fired...

Syrian opposition not in Geneva on day of peace talks

A Syrian opposition official says the main opposition group is staying away from peace talks until they get a response to their demands from...

Houthis say Saudi’s Abha airport targeted with drones, disabled for hours

CAIRO, Sept 8 (Reuters) - A military spokesman for Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said that the group targeted Saudi Arabia's Abha International Airport with a...

Iran grounds airline’s ATR planes after crash

Iran's civil aviation organisation has grounded ATR planes belonging to Aseman Airlines after one of them crashed this week with 66 people on board,...

Turkish military says another soldier killed in Syria

Turkey's military announced the death of another soldier in its operation against a syrian Kurdish militia in northern Syria, on Sunday. Sunday's announcement brings to...

Iran's leader calls U.S. regional policies a threat to Tehran and Moscow

Iran's supreme leader, at a meeting with Russian President Putin in Tehran on Monday, said U.S. policies in the region were a threat to...

Iran’s friends should have defied U.S. sanctions during pandemic – President Rouhani

Sept 5 (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani bemoaned Iran's friends on Saturday for not standing up to the United States and breaking crippling...

Twin Iraq and Syria assaults as IS loses last city

Deir Ezzor, Syria, Nov 3, 2017 (AFP) - Syrian troops on Friday retook the last major city where the Islamic State group had a...

Gunfire after police seal Saudi Shiite town: resident

Gunfire erupted in a Shiite town in Saudi Arabia Wednesday after police sealed it off with armoured vehicles, a resident said. Awamiya, near Dammam on...

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