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Several killed and wounded in east Lebanon blast

Several people were killed or wounded in an explosion in the eastern Lebanese town of Arsal on the border with Syria on Thursday, a...

Jubeir: Saudi Arabia cuts ties with Iran

Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it had severed ties with Iran over the storming of the Saudi embassy in Tehran, in a worsening diplomatic...

Post-sanctions Iran invites Boeing for talks

Iran has invited US plane manufacturer Boeing for talks on modernising its fleet, Transport Minister Abbas Akhoundi said Thursday, weeks after Tehran's nuclear deal...

U.N. planning Syria talks towards end of January

The United Nations envoy on Syria, Staffan de Mistura, plans to convene peace talks in Geneva in about a month's time, a senior U.N....

Saudi-led alliance confirms Yemen Houthi prisoner swap

A Saudi-led military coalition on Monday said it had completed a prisoner swap in Yemen, exchanging nine Saudi prisoners for 109 Yemeni nationals ahead...

25 killed in Kabul attack on Sikhs in Afghanistan

Afghanistan's Interior Ministry stated on Wednesday, that an Islamic State gunman rampaged through a Sikh house of worship in the heart of the Afghan...

Brussels mosque powder scare turns out to be false alarm

Firecrews and decontamination teams attended a major mosque in Brussels close to the European Union headquarters on Thursday to investigate a suspect powder that...

Suicide blast outside Prophet's Mosque in Medina

A suicide blast struck Monday in Saudi Arabia outside one of Islam's holiest sites, the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, a Saudi-owned television channel reported. Al-Arabiya...

Saudi women have right to divorce ‘unfit’ husbands, says HRC lawyer

Saudi courts have granted divorces to at least 140 women over the past 11 months and a human rights consultant has said women have...

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...

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