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  • Iran claims nuclear negotiations progress

    Iran's chief negotiator has said talks in Geneva with world powers through the night on implementing a nuclear deal had made "good progress". Negotiations continued throughout the night until early on Tuesday morning in the Swiss city "and the two sides have made good progress on different issues", Abbas Araqchi, Iran's lead negotiator,.. More

  • Syria misses deadline to remove chemical arms

    Ships waiting to remove Syria's chemical weapons have returned to port in Cyprus because the country has missed a December 31 deadline. Syria was supposed to have removed part of its chemical weapons arsenal for destruction on Tuesday, but Wael Nader Al Halqi, Syria's prime minister, said security concerns and bureaucracy had caused delays in transporting.. More

  • Lebanon says army fired on Syrian helicopters

    The Lebanese army has fired on Syrian aircraft that violated the country's airspace, according to the country's security officials. Lebanon's National News Agency said on Monday the army had responded to a raid on Khirbet Daoud, near the eastern town of Arsal in the Bekaa Valley, close to the border with Syria. "In accordance with the orders.. More

  • Syrian regime evacuates embattled town

    The Syrian regime has evacuated about 5,000 people from an embattled industrial town near the capital Damascus, where opposition forces have been battling regime troops for more than two weeks. The evacuation on Sunday comes as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that more than 500 people, including 151 children, have been killed during.. More

  • Israel releases 26 Palestinian prisoners

    Twenty-six Palestinian prisoners have been released from Israeli jails, as part of a US-brokered deal to restart Middle East negotiations. Tuesday's release comes a day before US Secretary of State John Kerry is set to return to the region in a bid to boost the faltering negotiations. It is the third of four stages to free 104 inmates that Israeli.. More

  • Egyptian students clash with security forces

    Egyptian students opposed to the July 3 coup have clashed with police at a university campus in Cairo and set two buildings on fire, state television reported. Two student activists have been killed, and four others were injured, during the violence on Saturday at the Al-Azhar University campus, according to the Ministry of Health. The first student.. More

  • Deadly 'barrel bomb' raid hits Aleppo market

    Syrian government helicopters have dropped TNT-packed barrels on a vegetable market and next to a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 25 civilians, including children, activists reported. The Syrian Revolution General Commission, a network of activists on the ground, described the bombing in Tareeq al-Bab district on Saturday.. More

  • Fresh protests in Egypt turn deadly

    At least five people have been killed and 265 others arrested as Egyptian riot police deployed water cannon and tear gas against hundreds of rock-throwing supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi, government officials said. The clashes on Friday followed an announcement by Egyptian authorities that they would use the Muslim Brotherhood's new designation.. More

  • UN to send more troops to South Sudan

    The United Nations Security Council has approved plans to almost double the number of UN peacekeepers in South Sudan. The 15-member council unanimously authorized on Tuesday a request by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to boost the strength of the UN mission in South Sudan to 12,500 troops and 1,323 police - up from its previous mandate of 7,000 troops.. More

  • Turkish PM reshuffles cabinet amid scandal

    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has replaced nearly half his cabinet in a reshuffle prompted by a spiraling corruption scandal. Erdogan announced on television late on Wednesday that he had replaced three resigning ministers and his EU affairs minister, while reshuffling the justice, transport, family, sports and industry portfolios, and.. More

  • Israel launches fresh air strikes on Gaza

    A three-year-old Palestinian girl was killed and at least six other people wounded in a series of Israeli air and tank strikes on the Gaza Strip, medical sources said. Medics named the girl as Hala Abu Sabikha from the central Gaza Strip, noting "three other members of her family were wounded" on Tuesday. Emergency services spokesman Ashraf.. More

  • Syria regime 'has secret Iraq oil lifeline'

    The Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad has received substantial imports of Iraqi crude oil from an Egyptian port in the last nine months, shipping and payments documents show, part of an under-the-radar trade that has kept his military running despite Western sanctions. Assad's regime has been blacklisted by Western powers for its role in the.. More

  • Rioting after deadly Egypt bombing

    There have been riots in the Egyptian city of Mansoura, after the bombing of a police station that killed 14 people. Police said on Tuesday three bombs had been planted before the explosion at the police station, two of which went off at almost at the same time. The third one, found in a car nearby, was defused. They warned that the death toll from.. More

  • Kuwait ministers submit resignation to PM

    Kuwait's cabinet ministers have submitted their resignations to the prime minister, the parliament speaker said, in a move that could pave the way for a cabinet reshuffle. Parliament speaker Marzouq al-Ghanim said he had received "a formal letter from the government that it will not attend Tuesday's parliament session and that the ministers have.. More

  • Israel releases Palestinian hunger striker

    A high-profile Palestinian prisoner who went on a prolonged hunger strike in an Israeli jail has been released. Samer al-Issawi, who was been in Israeli jail since July 2012, was released on Sunday, according to Al Jazeera's Nisreen El-Shamayleh, who was reporting from Jerusalem. In his first televised interview after being freed, Issawi said, It.. More