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More than 4 million people in Lebanon could face a critical shortage of water or be cut off completely in the coming days, UNICEF warned, due to a severe fuel … Read More

The former head of Tunisia’s Anti-Corruption Committee has been placed under house arrest, he said on Facebook on Friday, hours after security forces took control of the commission’s headquarters.

Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar has arrived in Kabul for talks with other leaders to hammer out a new Afghan government, a Taliban official said on Saturday, almost a week after … Read More

President Joe Biden sought Friday to reassure the United States on the dramatic evacuation from Afghanistan, promising no Americans would be abandoned in one of the “most difficult” airlifts in … Read More

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, among the few who recognised the Taliban’s radical 1996-2001 rule in Afghanistan, will likely take a pragmatic approach to its return to power … Read More

With Lebanon’s hospitals already struggling through fuel and medical shortages, the devastating oil tanker explosion in Akkar has dried up the reserves of the hospitals treating the victims, as they … Read More

Foreign powers sought to increase evacuations from Afghanistan on Friday after reports of Taliban reprisals, including against people who had worked with U.S.-led forces or the previous Western-backed government.

Lebanon records 1,019 COVID-19 cases, five deaths in last 24 hours

Frustrated by corruption and a lack of jobs, young Iraqis are finding inspiration in Imam Hussein, a seventh-century religious figure seen as embodying the struggle against injustice.

AstraZeneca’s Alexion division will stop developing a treatment for the neurological disorder ALS due to lack of efficacy in a late-stage trial, the British drugmaker said on Friday.