Roadmap in works for new nations to join Makkah pact
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MECCA DEFENCE PACT / Turkey, KSA, Pakistan to hold first meeting today
31 August 2026
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Israeli airstrike kills two people in Gaza
31 August 2026
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Israeli strikes kill three in Gaza
29 August 2026
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New US threats: Iran warns of ‘crushing’ response
22 August 2026
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Iran fishermen venture back to Hormuz despite fears of new fighting
18 August 2026
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OCCUPIED WEST BANK / Activists rush aid to Palestinians besieged by settlers
15 August 2026
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Trump ‘used a catering truck to sneak off Air Force One’
12 August 2026
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KSA-Pak-Turkey deal: A ‘change in perception’ of US - Iran
11 August 2026
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Syria reaches deal with Moscow on fate of Russian bases
10 August 2026
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Assault on Raqqa imminent
The United States expects the campaigns against Islamic State in Mosul and Raqqa to overlap, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash
25 October 2016
Israeli forces hit Gaza after rocket launch
Israel's air force hit a Hamas post in the Gaza Strip yesterday after a rocket was fired from the Palestinian enclave toward Israel,
24 October 2016
16 dead in heavy bombing of Idlib
Sixteen civilians, including three children, were killed yesterday in heavy bombardment across rebel-held Idlib province in
24 October 2016
2,400 rescued, 14 die, off Libya coast
Horrific scenes unfolded in the Mediterranean off Libya Saturday as a full-to-capacity rescue ship was forced to sail
23 October 2016
Air campaign resumes as truce expires
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition attacked targets in Sanaa at dawn yesterday, hours after a three-day truce in
23 October 2016
Clashes shake Aleppo as truce expires
Clashes and air strikes shook the Syrian city of Aleppo, a monitor said yesterday, as heavy fighting resumed after the
23 October 2016
Opium spreads as Afghan Taliban gain ground: UN
The cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan, the world's main source of heroin, has risen to its third-highest level in more
23 October 2016
Clashes shake Aleppo after ceasefire
Clashes and air strikes shook the Syrian city of Aleppo, a monitor said yesterday, as heavy fighting resumed after the end of
22 October 2016
Regime used chem gas in 2015: UN
The Syrian army attacked the village of Qmenas with chemical weapons in March 2015, UN experts said in a report released
22 October 2016
Turkey hits Syrian Kurd militia again
Turkey hit Syrian Kurdish militia targets with rocket fires in northern Syria for the second time in less than 72 hours, the military
22 October 2016
Toxic gas sends scores to hospital near Mosul
Up to 1,000 people have been treated for breathing problems linked to fumes from a sulphur plant set ablaze during fighting with
22 October 2016
UN delays evacuations
The UN said yesterday that security concerns had forced it to delay planned evacuations from Syria's Aleppo, despite a truce
21 October 2016
Coalition warplanes hit Yemen rebels
Warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition have hit rebel positions outside the Yemeni capital Sanaa, witnesses said yesterday, after
21 October 2016
IS jihadists attack Iraq's Kirkuk in Mosul diversion
Jihadist gunmen, some of them wearing suicide vests, attack the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, an apparent effort to divert the thousands of troops and militiamen closing in on their Mosul stronghold.
21 October 2016
Turkey raids kill '200 Kurd fighters' in Syria
Turkish warplanes carried out deadly strikes on US-backed militias in northern Syria, including Syrian Kurdish fighters, a monitor said yesterday, action that is likely to raise tensions between the Nato allies.
20 October 2016
Palestinian stone-thrower shot dead
Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank shot dead a Palestinian teenager who hurled rocks at a patrol yesterday, the army said.
20 October 2016
Indonesia ratifies Paris climate pact
Indonesia, one of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters, yesterday ratified the landmark climate rescue pact but
19 October 2016
Millions in Philippines on alert for typhoon
Millions of people in the Philippines were on high alert yesterday for one of the strongest typhoons to ever hit the
19 October 2016
One more Palestinian 'attacker' shot dead
A 19-year-old Palestinian woman approached Israeli border police with a knife in a tense area of the West Bank
19 October 2016
Deadly clashes before latest Yemen truce
Heavy fighting rocked Yemen hours before a UN-brokered ceasefire was due to begin yesterday, as warring parties
19 October 2016