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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UNSC backs Libya peace deal
The UN Security Council on Wednesday endorsed a UN-brokered agreement among Libya's warring factions to form a national unity government, a deal Western powers hope will bring stability and help to combat a growing Islamic State presence.
24 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Syria conditionally agrees to attend Geneva talks
Syria's regime yesterday said it was ready to take part in new talks in Geneva aimed at ending the war but appeared to make its participation conditional on which opposition groups will attend.
24 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Japan probes Syria journo kidnap report
Japan yesterday said it was investigating the reported kidnapping of a Japanese journalist in Syria by an armed group, after two of its citizens were beheaded
24 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Iran calls China to join the fight
China should play a more active role in fighting Islamic State, a senior figure in a body that advises Iran's Supreme Leader said yesterday, according to the country's Fars news agency.
24 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Israel kills 4 Palestinian assailants in West Bank
Israeli forces killed four Palestinian assailants in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank yesterday, the army said, as a 12-week surge in street violence showed no sign of abating.
24 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Afghan forces battle to flush out Taliban
Military planes have dropped food and ammunition to besieged Afghan forces battling to push Taliban insurgents out of Sangin, officials said yesterday, two days after the emboldened militants stormed the opium-growing district.
22 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Iraq launches final push for IS-held Ramadi
Iraqi security forces yesterday advanced into the centre of Ramadi for a final push aimed at retaking the city they lost to the Islamic State group in May, officials said.
22 December 2015, 18:00 PM
IS radio show seeks new recruits in Afghanistan
Islamic State militants in eastern Afghanistan have taken to the airwaves to win recruits as they try to build strength and replace the Taliban as the leading force in the Islamist insurgency.
21 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Fierce fight for Helmand
Clashes intensified yesterday as the Taliban pressed an offensive to capture a key district in Helmand's opium-growing heartland, a day after an official warned the entire southern Afghan province was on the brink of collapse.
21 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Palestinian attempts knife attack, shot dead
A Palestinian tried to attack Israeli soldiers with a knife in the West Bank yesterday and was shot dead, the army said, the latest incident in more than two-months of violence.
17 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Rivals swap hundreds of detainees
Yemeni pro-government forces and rebels completed an exchange of hundreds of detainees yesterday, an official said, amid a shaky ceasefire on the third day of UN-sponsored peace talks in Switzerland.
17 December 2015, 18:00 PM
'7,000 tortured or killed in detention'
New evidence has been released that up to 7,000 Syrians who died in government detention centres in Syria were tortured to death, a rights group said in a report.
17 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Libyan rivals sign unity govt deal
Libyan politicians yesterday signed a deal on a unity government despite opposition on both sides, in what the United Nations described as a "first step" towards ending the crisis.
17 December 2015, 18:00 PM
'No proof of terrorism' in Sinai crash
Egypt said yesterday it still has no evidence that a "terrorist action" had downed a Russian plane at the end of October in the Sinai Peninsula, as stated by
14 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Tehran's air pollution hits worst level
Air pollution in Iran's capital hit its worst level -- for a day without a sandstorm -- in at least nine months yesterday, prompting warnings that all citizens
14 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Saudi Arabia Polls: 20 women elected
Saudi voters have elected 20 women for local government seats, according to results, a day after women voted and ran in elections for the first time in the
14 December 2015, 18:00 PM
IS eyes Libyan oil
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said yesterday that the Islamic State group was spreading from its stronghold on the Libyan coast to the interior of the country with the aim of getting access to oil wells.
14 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Air strikes 'kill 32 IS militants' in Syria
Air strikes on the Syrian city of Raqqa have killed at least 32 Islamic State (IS) militants and wounded 40 more, an activist group says.
6 December 2015, 22:22 PM
'Immediately withdraw troops'
Baghdad yesterday demanded the immediate withdrawal of forces it said Turkey illegally sent into Iraq, which is struggling to assert its
5 December 2015, 18:17 PM
'US running out of bombs to drop on IS'
The US Air Force has fired off more than 20,000 missiles and bombs since the US bombing campaign against IS began 15 months ago, according to the Air Force, leading to depleted munitions stockpiles and calls to ramp up funding and weapons production.
5 December 2015, 18:14 PM