Syria army cuts off main town in Ghouta rebel enclave
Syrian regime forces on Saturday cut off the largest town in Eastern Ghouta from the rest of the opposition enclave in a blow to...
Iran & Ukraine – Flight Recorders
An Iranian official announced on Saturday that Iran will send the black box flight recorders from the Ukrainian jetliner that it accidentally shot down...
Displaced citizens reject ordinary identity cards
RIYADH: The Passport Department in Hafr Al-Batin has started issuing identity cards to citizens and families who have migrated from the northern provinces of...
Truckloads of fireworks explode killing five in Jordan
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Five people were killed and eight others wounded Monday when an explosion ripped through two trucks carrying fireworks in the Jordanian capital, a civil...
Egypt detains activist blogger amid new wave of arrests
An Egyptian activist and blogger known for documenting police abuse was detained Wednesday, security officials said in the latest in a new wave of...
Protesters tents torched and one protester killed in Iraq
One protester was killed early Monday in Iraq's flash-point city of Nasiriyah, as gunmen stormed the square where anti-government demonstrators had been camped out...
Chinese site got hit in Baghdad
Iraqi officials announced Saturday that two rockets struck near a Chinese oil facility south of Baghdad without causing any casualties, the second such attack...
Morocco rejects Amnesty’s allegations on spying on journalist
RABAT (Reuters) - Moroccan authorities on Friday rejected an Amnesty report saying they have spied on journalist Omar Radi using Israeli-made technology.
Amnesty said it...
Sudan and major rebel group agree to resume peace talks
JUBA/KHARTOUM, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Sudan's power-sharing government and a major rebel group active in southern borderlands have agreed to hold new peace talks...
Faith defeats desert heat as Hajis flock to Hera
Their faces bathed in sweat, cheeks stained with tears, dozens of Muslim pilgrims scale Makkah’s Jabal Al-Noor mountain, undertaking the arduous ascent to follow...
