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Rubio warns Hormuz tolls would 'spread like contagion' to other waterways
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Gulf states ‘dragging their feet’ as migrant workers face deadly heat: HRW
23 June 2026, 21:41 PM
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Iran says to oversee Hormuz as Swiss talks conclude
23 June 2026, 12:53 PM
Middle East
Iran chief negotiator says Hormuz will be administered by Tehran: state media
23 June 2026, 08:30 AM
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Qatar gas plant blast kills 13, injures dozens
23 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Middle East
Qatar factory explosion injures 54, 18 missing: interior ministry
22 June 2026, 08:36 AM
Middle East
Jordan hangs six after 9-year death penalty pause
22 June 2026, 00:00 AM
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92% Israelis believe Iran won war: poll
22 June 2026, 00:00 AM
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‘Fooling no one’ : Al Jazeera rejects Israeli accusations against journo killed in Gaza
22 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Middle East
'Terrorist' shot after stabbing Israeli soldier
An assailant believed to be Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli officer in a West Bank settlement early yesterday
18 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Iran must stand strong against US
Iran's supreme leader said the Islamic republic must stand strong against Washington on the region's conflicts, in an
18 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Ceasefire teeters on brink
Syria's ceasefire was hanging by a thread yesterday, after tensions escalated between Moscow and Washington over a
18 September 2016, 18:00 PM
2 police shot dead in Saudi Arabia
Unidentified gunmen killed two Saudi policemen in the mainly Shia eastern city of Dammam late on Saturday, the
18 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Pak blast toll hits 36
The death toll from a Taliban suicide bomb attack on a mosque in northwest tribal Pakistan has risen to 36, including
18 September 2016, 18:00 PM
62 Syria troops killed in US-led strikes: Russia
More than 60 Syrian government soldiers were killed and dozens of others injured yesterday in US-led coalition air strikes on
17 September 2016, 20:59 PM
Peres condition stable after stroke: doctor
Former Israeli president and Nobel laureate Shimon Peres remained stable yesterday, four days after a major stroke, his
17 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Sunnis riven anew by ancient dispute
An old rift at the heart of Sunni Islam that once saw clerics brawl outside a mosque in medieval Baghdad has emerged again,
17 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Tension high as violence spikes
A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier yesterday in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron before he was shot dead,
17 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Israeli missiles down rockets fired from Syria
Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system destroyed two rockets fired from Syria at the Israeli-held zone of the
17 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Israeli forces kill two assailants
Israeli forces shot dead a knife-wielding assailant in East Jerusalem yesterday and killed another attacker in a car that
16 September 2016, 18:00 PM
40 killed in clashes in Yemen
Forty people were killed in fighting between Shia Huthi rebels and pro-government forces around southwest Yemen's
16 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Yazidi slave becomes UN ambassador
A young Yazidi woman who survived trafficking and gang-rape by so-called Islamic State militants is to be
16 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Syria ceasefire extended
The United Nations yesterday urged Syria's government to allow immediate aid deliveries to hunger-stricken civilians after a fragile ceasefire was extended for 48 hours by Russia and the United States.
15 September 2016, 18:16 PM
Israeli jets hit Gaza after rocket fire
Israel's air force hit the Hamas-run Gaza Strip early yesterday after Palestinians fired a rocket into southern Israel, the military
15 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Syria truce brings 'significant drop' in fighting
The UN's Syria envoy applauds a "significant drop" in violence through the first 24 hours of a fragile ceasefire but says security concerns meant aid convoys stayed on hold.
14 September 2016, 06:37 AM
Syria war death toll now more than 300,000: monitor
More than 300,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict since March 2011, according to a monitor in a new toll, the first full day of an internationally-brokered truce.
13 September 2016, 11:28 AM
Turkey ousts 28 mayors
Turkey yesterday ousted 28 mayors accused of links to Kurdish militants or US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen,
11 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Violence rages before truce
Syria's opposition was weighing whether to take part in a truce brokered by Russia and the United States due to start
11 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Air strikes kill 21 civilians in Yemen
At least 21 civilians were killed in two separate air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in northern Yemen on Saturday,
11 September 2016, 18:00 PM