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Mideast peace proposal nearly ready, says US envoy to UN

Feb 23, 2018 (AFP)

"I think they're finishing it up," Nikki Haley said, when asked about formulations of a Middle East peace proposal during an appearance at the University of Chi...

Russia rejects UN condemnation of Iran over missiles to Yemen

Feb 23, 2018 (AFP)

The Security Council is expected to vote on Monday on the British-drafted measure that would renew sanctions on Yemen for a year and address the findings of a U...

Merkel calls for end to 'massacre' in Syria

Feb 22, 2018 (AFP)

Condemning the Syrian regime for targeting "its own people", Merkel said: "The killing of children, the destruction of hospitals -- all that amounts to a massac...

US-led anti-IS coalition acknowledges 10 more civilian deaths

Feb 22, 2018 (AFP)

The coalition said in a statement that it had completed a review in January of 116 reports of potential civilian casualties from air and artillery strikes, of w...

Syria, Russia pound rebel enclave, put clinic out of service

Feb 21, 2018 (AFP)

In a major development in Syria's complex seven-year war, Damascus also sent pro-regime fighters to the northern Afrin region, where they came under fire by Tur...

Syrians cower in basements as bombs pound enclave

Feb 21, 2018 (AFP)

Just a few miles away, inhabitants of government-held capital Damascus, spared much of the devastation of Syria's seven-year war, stay off the streets for fear ...

Russia denies role in strikes killing civilians in Syria's E. Ghouta

Feb 21, 2018 (AFP)

"These are groundless accusations. It is not clear what they are based on. No specific data has been given. We do not agree (with them)," said presidential spok...

Russia balks at UN bid to condemn Iran over missiles to Yemen

Feb 21, 2018 (AFP)

Britain last week circulated a draft resolution that would renew sanctions on Yemen for a year but also call for unspecified measures in response to a UN report...

UN chief 'deeply alarmed' by Eastern Ghouta violence

Feb 21, 2018 (AFP)

Guterres urged all sides to uphold the basic principles of humanitarian law, including the protection of civilians. "The secretary-general is deeply alarmed by ...

Colombian police die in clash with 'FARC dissidents'

Feb 20, 2018 (AFP)

The clash happened in San Vicente de Caguan in the Caqueta department when the police stopped and tried to search two men, who opened fire, Luis Carlos Villegas...

Russia blamed as key clinic in Syria enclave bombed out of service

Feb 20, 2018 (AFP)

"The Arbin hospital was hit twice today and is now out of service," said Moussa Naffa, country director in Jordan for the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS)...

Three Egyptian soldiers killed in Sinai campaign

Feb 19, 2018 (AFP)

Four "extremists" were also killed, the military said in a statement. It was the first military death toll announced since the army started its campaign on Febr...

Israeli warplanes pound Gaza after new rocket attack

Feb 19, 2018 (AFP)

The cross-border exchange followed a weekend escalation in violence seen as among the most serious since Israel and the coastal enclave's Hamas rulers fought a ...

Syria jets pound rebel enclave as ground assault looms

Feb 19, 2018 (AFP)

Held by rebels since 2012, Eastern Ghouta is now the last opposition-controlled pocket around Damascus and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has dispatched reinf...

Israel arrests Palestinians 'planning attack on defence minister'

Feb 18, 2018 (AFP)

Shin Bet said the six were affiliated with the Islamic Jihad militant group and were active in the Bethlehem area where they sought to carry out shootings again...

Jordan foils militant pipeline smuggling plot: army

Feb 17, 2018 (AFP)

"The Jordanian armed forces were able... to thwart a plan to smuggle weapons, drugs and terrorists" through the pipeline, an official in the general command sai...

Pentagon's 'deploy-or-be-removed' policy takes effect

Feb 16, 2018 (UPI)

The new directives seek to improve overall readiness and lethal forces, according to Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Robert Wilkie, who te...

US never gave 'heavy arms' to Kurdish YPG in Syria: Tillerson

Feb 15, 2018 (AFP)

"We have never given heavy arms to the YPG so there is none to take back," Tillerson said in response to a question at a press conference in the Lebanese capita...

Strikes hit yet another hospital in Syria's Idlib

Feb 15, 2018 (AFP)

The strikes, thought to be Russian, hit the hospital in the northwestern province of Idlib late Wednesday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

Iraqi militia vows to back Hezbollah in war with Israel

Feb 13, 2018 (AFP)

Harakat al-Nujaba and Hezbollah have fought side-by-side to bolster Syrian government troops since 2013, most prominently against the Islamic State group in eas...