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Iraqi premier dismisses offer to freeze Kurdish vote results

  Haider al-Abadi's office released the comments as the prime minister met with Iranian officials in Tehran, including the Islamic Republic's supreme leader. The timing shows...

Erdogan’s policies driving Turkey to the edge, challenger says

President Tayyip Erdogan is driving Turkey "to the cliff" through ideological politics and a determination to control the central bank, the main opposition party's...

Lebanese Cabinet wins vote of confidence amid a crippling economic and financial crisis

Lebanon's new Cabinet won a vote of confidence from Parliament on Tuesday, paving the way for it to try and tackle the country's crippling...

Saudi Coalition Seizes Iranian Boat Carrying Weapons to Yemen

The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen said Wednesday that it had foiled an attempt by Tehran to smuggle a huge...

EU help in Syria as price to end migrant crisis, Erdogan demands

Thousands of migrants have massed at the Greek frontier with Turkey since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced last week that they would no longer...

New rebel evacuations from Syria’s south

More rebel fighters with their families boarded buses to leave southern Syria on Saturday under deals with the regime, a war monitor said, after...

Palestinian factions call for "day of rage", diplomats push on for peace

Palestinian factions called for mass rallies against Israel in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem in a "day of rage" on Friday, as...

ISIS smuggles majority of oil via Turkey: Iraq PM said

Iraq’s premier Haider al-Abadi said Monday that most of the oil smuggled by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group goes through...

Erdogan signals possible warming of ties with Israel

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signaled a possible warming of relations with Israel, saying in comments published Monday that the entire region would...

Death toll from airstrike on Yemen wedding hits 131

Saudi-led Arab coalition fighting Houthi rebels denies firing missiles at Red Sea village where wedding reception was being held The death toll from an airstrike...

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