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A new Taliban interim government drawn exclusively from loyalist ranks formally began work Wednesday, with established hardliners in all key posts and no women — despite previous promises to form … Read More
Regime shelling on a medical centre in northwestern Syria killed a woman Wednesday, in the latest in a long list of government attacks on health facilities, a monitor said.
Nearly 80 rebels and pro-government troops have been killed in fighting for the strategic Yemeni city of Marib, military sources told AFP on Wednesday.
Ghajar says working with World Bank to secure financing for energy supply
Ghajar says hopes to get enough Egyptian gas to generate 450 MW of electricity
Jordan meeting approves roadmap to supply Egyptian natural gas to Lebanon
Israeli troops have arrested at least five family members in the occupied West Bank of the Palestinians who escaped from a high-security jail this week, a Palestinian prisoners’ group said … Read More
Moroccans began voting Wednesday in parliamentary and local elections that will decide the fate of Islamists who have governed the kingdom since the Arab Spring uprisings.
The biggest trial in France’s modern history begins on Wednesday with 20 suspects accused over attacks in Paris that saw 130 people killed in November 2015, an expected nine months … Read More
The historic Khan al-Harir souk in war-torn Syria’s erstwhile economic capital of Aleppo has reopened following restoration work, but much of the former workforce that energised it remains exiled.