Any new attack would be ‘another failure’: Iran
23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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‘Keep dreaming’
20 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Iran executes man over espionage
19 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Netanyahu says will run for PM in next year's election
19 October 2025, 02:53 AM
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Nuclear deal with west / Iran ‘terminates’ all mechanisms
18 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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‘Just a wasteland’
18 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Israeli forces kill 11-year-old in West Bank
17 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Palestinians touring Europe to boost state recognition
15 October 2025, 18:58 PM
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Aid trucks roll into Gaza
15 October 2025, 18:50 PM
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Iran says Trump's call for peace 'at odds' with US actions
14 October 2025, 06:08 AM
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Israel ex-PM begins prison term
Ehud Olmert, once feted for his peace efforts with the Palestinians, yesterday became Israel's first former premier to serve jail time as he began a 19-month sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice.
15 February 2016, 18:00 PM
23 dead as missiles hit three hospitals, school in Syrian towns
At least 23 civilians are killed when missiles hit three hospitals and a school in rebel-held Syrian towns today, residents say, as Russian-backed Syrian troops intensify their push toward the rebel stronghold of Aleppo.
15 February 2016, 11:25 AM
Israel kills 3 Palestinian 'attackers'
The Israeli army said troops shot dead two Palestinian teenagers who were throwing stones at cars in the occupied West Bank yesterday after coming under fire from one of them.
14 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Palestinian teen attacker shot dead
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager as she tried to stab a soldier in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday, Israeli and Palestinian
13 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Ready to put rivalries aside
Iran and Saudi Arabia must overcome strained relations and work for stability in Syria and the Middle East, Iran's foreign minister said on Friday, a day after Syrian peace talks brought the rivals to the same table for the first time in months.
13 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Iran rules Valentine's Day celebrations a crime
Iran says it is cracking down on Valentine's Day celebrations and shops engaging in them will be guilty of a crime.
13 February 2016, 06:00 AM
Syria conflict: Rebels pledge to keep fighting
Rebel groups in Syria have told the BBC they will not stop fighting because they do not believe that Russia will end its bombing campaign in support of the government.
13 February 2016, 04:24 AM
Syria conflict: Bashar al-Assad vows to retake whole country
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that he intends to retake "the whole country".
12 February 2016, 15:40 PM
Refugees crowd border
Turkish humanitarian groups set up camps in Syria and sent in truckloads of aid yesterday for tens of thousands of people stranded on the border after fleeing a Russia-backed regime offensive on the northern region of Aleppo.
8 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Israeli soldier stabbed, attacker shot
An Israeli soldier was stabbed and lightly wounded in the southern city of Ashkelon yesterday and the assailant was shot, Israeli police said, the latest in a
7 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Yemeni shelling kills two in Saudi
A Saudi soldier and a civilian have been killed in cross-border shelling from rebel-controlled northern Yemen, authorities said late Saturday. A Saudi patrol was
7 February 2016, 18:00 PM
'Sangin on verge of falling to Taliban'
The key district of Sangin in the southern Afghan province of Helmand is once again on the verge of being overrun by the Taliban, according to an Afghan army
7 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Don't interfere in kingdom's affairs
Saudi Arabia's King Salman yesterday called on other countries not to interfere in the kingdom's internal affairs in what appeared to be a rebuke to Riyadh's main foe Iran, which it accuses of attempting to stir unrest.
7 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Dubai ruler seeks student for cabinet post
Dubai's ruler is looking for a young person to sit on the United Arab Emirates federal cabinet as the voice of youth - and has used Twitter to announce the job opportunity.
4 February 2016, 15:48 PM
Islamic State bombings near Syria Shiite shrine kill 50
Bombings claimed by the Islamic State group kill more than 50 people and wound dozens near a revered Shiite shrine outside the Syrian capital Damascus.
31 January 2016, 12:46 PM
Two killed in mosque bomb and gun attack in Saudi Arabia - SPA
Two people were killed and seven others are wounded in a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in the east of Saudi Arabia, the Interior Ministry says on Friday.
29 January 2016, 12:27 PM
'No postponement' of UN peace talks
The UN yesterday said that there was no postponement of Syria peace talks due to start Friday in Switzerland, despite uncertainty around whether the main opposition umbrella group would attend.
28 January 2016, 21:02 PM
US weighing 'military options'
The US is weighing potential military options in Libya as Islamic State jihadists expand their influence in the north African nation roiled by political instability, a Pentagon official said Wednesday.
28 January 2016, 21:01 PM
Hero of Egypt's uprising feels rejected five years on
In 2011, activist Esraa Abdel-Fattah helped ignite revolution on the streets of Egypt and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Five years after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, she is shunned or insulted by Egyptians on those same streets.
25 January 2016, 13:28 PM
Fires erupt as IS attacks Libya oil facilities
Oil facilities in northern Libya were set ablaze Thursday as the Islamic State group launched fresh attacks to seize key export terminals, renewing concerns over the jihadists' growing influence.
21 January 2016, 18:33 PM