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Iraq gives Turkish forces 48 hours to leave country

Iraq on Sunday gave Turkey 48 hours to withdraw forces it said had entered the country illegally or face "all available options", including recourse...

Israel seeks 'solution' over Egypt gas row

Israel announced Tuesday that it was sending an envoy to Cairo to find a solution after Egyptian firms were ordered to pay $1.76 billion...

Taliban’s truce ended as Afghan violence resumes

The period of partial truce has been shattered by a deadly blast in Afghanistan on Monday and the Taliban ordered fighters to resume operations...

Turkey re-imposes curfews on Kurdish cities

The Turkish authorities on Friday lifted a nine-day curfew in a key district in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir but then promptly reimposed the...

Trump suspends immigration to US because of virus

Almost all visa processing by the State Department has been suspended for weeks. Travel to the U.S. has been restricted from much of the globe,...

China envoy calls for calm and restraint between Saudi and Iran

A Chinese envoy who visited Saudi Arabia and Iran over the past week has called for both countries to exercise calm and restraint amid...

United States to press Russia on Syria's Assad

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to press President Vladimir Putin on how Russia sees a future political transition in Syria and...

President Obama meets GCC in Saudi Arabia to discuss security

President Barack Obama met Thursday with top officials from six Arab nations to discuss regional security issues in the Arabian Gulf including the fight against...

U.S Kerry meets Saudi King Salman for Syria talks

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry has met with Saudi Arabia's monarch, King Salman, to follow up on discussions he...

Saudi Arabia ‘to sue’ over IS comparison after Ashraf Fayadh death sentence

A POET who was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia has sparked a Twitter hashtag after the kingdom threatened to sue any user who...

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