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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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'ISIS 'making, using chem weapons in Syria, Iraq'
There is a growing belief within the US government that the Islamic State militant group is making and using crude chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria, a US official has told the BBC.
11 September 2015, 18:00 PM
87 killed, 184 hurt as crane crashes into Mecca's Grand Mosque
A massive construction crane crashes into Mecca's Grand Mosque in stormy weather Friday, killing 87 people and injuring 184, Saudi authorities say, less than a fortnight before the hajj pilgrimage starts.
11 September 2015, 17:30 PM
IS attacks Syrian air base in east, dozens reported killed
Dozens of Syrian government troops and Islamic State fighters have been killed in fighting around a government-held air base in eastern Syria in a region that is a stronghold for the jihadists, a monitoring group said on Thursday,
10 September 2015, 12:18 PM
ISIS's unholy business of artefacts
So why is Isis blowing to pieces the greatest artefacts of ancient history in Syria and Iraq?
3 September 2015, 18:24 PM
13m deprived of education: UN
More than 13 million children are being denied an education by Middle East conflicts, the UN said yesterday, warning "the hopes of a generation" would be dashed if they cannot return to classrooms.
3 September 2015, 18:24 PM
No proof Yasser Arafat poisoned
French judges investigating claims that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was murdered have closed the case without bringing any charges, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.
3 September 2015, 18:04 PM
Saudi carries out 130th execution this year
Saudi authorities put to death a convicted murderer yesterday, bringing to 130 the number of executions in the kingdom so far this year, according to an AFP
3 September 2015, 18:01 PM
Gunmen kidnap 18 Turks in Iraq capital
Gunmen kidnapped at least 18 Turkish employees of a company building a football stadium in Baghdad yesterday, officials said, but it was not immediately
2 September 2015, 18:00 PM
Come, live with us
More than 11,000 families in Iceland have offered to open their homes to Syrian refugees in a bid to raise the government's cap of just 50 asylum seekers a
2 September 2015, 18:00 PM
200 people of Iraqi town held by ISIS
The mayor of a remote, Islamic State-held town in western Iraq said yesterday that some 200 residents have been detained by the group at an unknown
31 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Libya loyalist forces battle IS in Benghazi
Libyan pro-government forces yesterday battled jihadists from the Islamic State group in second city Benghazi, where five pro-government fighters have been
31 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Taliban covered up Mullah Omar's death
The Taliban in Afghanistan yesterday admitted covering up longtime leader Mullah Omar's death for two years, saying they had wanted to keep it secret until foreign forces ended their fight against the militants.
31 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Housing complex fire in Saudi kills 11
At least 11 people were killed and 219 injured in Saudi Arabia yesterday when a fire broke out at a residential complex in the eastern city of Khobar housing
30 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Saudi women register to run for election
Saudi women for the first time began to register as candidates yesterday for municipal polls in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom where they face a host of restrictions, including a driving ban.
30 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Saudi-led air strike kills 36 Yemenis
An air strike by warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition killed 36 civilians working at a bottling plant in the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah yesterday, residents said.
30 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Greste calls for Sisi pardon
Australian Al-Jazeera reporter Peter Greste yesterday called for Egypt's president to pardon him and two colleagues handed prison sentences in a shock ruling that sparked international condemnation and which he described as "politically motivated".
30 August 2015, 18:00 PM
ISIS in Syria executed over 90 last month
The Islamic State jihadist group has executed more than 90 people, a third of them civilians, over the past month in areas of war-torn Syria under its control, a monitoring group said yesterday.
30 August 2015, 18:00 PM
'Largest ever' Med gas field found off Egypt
Italian energy giant ENI yesterday announced the discovery of the "largest ever" offshore natural gas field in the Mediterranean inside Egypt's territorial waters.
30 August 2015, 18:00 PM
IS 'deputy' killed in air strike, US says
A deputy leader of Islamic State (IS), Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, has been killed in a US military strike in northern Iraq, the White House says.
22 August 2015, 05:04 AM
ISIS enshrines a theology of rape in Syria, Iraq
In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted.
15 August 2015, 18:00 PM