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Saudi facing 'long' Yemen war after talks fail

Six months after Saudi Arabia said its war in Yemen was winding down, air strikes are again pounding rebels and rockets flying across the...

Suicide bombers attack Yemeni army checkpoints, 10 killed

Two suicide bombers tried to ram vehicles laden with explosives through two Yemeni military checkpoints near the government-held port city of Mukalla on Monday,...

Yemeni party names new leader after Saleh killed

The party of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh named a new leader on Sunday after he was killed last month by the Iran-aligned...

Yemen peace talks delayed by ongoing combat

Peace talks in Kuwait aimed at ending over a year of civil war and a Saudi-led intervention in Yemen will not begin on Monday...

Egypt court acquits former PM Ahmed Nazif

Egypt's top appeals court acquitted on Wednesday Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister of corruption charges after overturning his sentence for illegal profiteering, his lawyer...

Saudis walk out of Arab League meeting after Iraqi minister's comments

The Saudi delegation at the Arab League stormed out of a meeting after Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari defended the Shi'ite Hashd Shaabi militia...

Kurds and Arabs form joint military force in Syria

Syria's leading Kurdish militia and several Arab rebel groups that have fought alongside it have formalised their alliance in a new group called the...

Egypt's illicit currency traders defy crackdown, spread business abroad

Egypt's efforts to stamp out illicit currency trading is pushing black market dealers to carry out transactions abroad, beyond the reach of the law,...

Hundreds in Paris protest Rouhani’s visit to France

Rouhani arrived in Paris on Wednesday from Rome, where billions of euros' worth of trade deals were reached, and was formally greeted Thursday morning...

Saudi Prince Mohammed says war unlikely with Iran

Saudi Arabia's deputy crown prince, widely thought to wield considerable power in the monarchy, has given an interview to a magazine in which he...

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