Middle East
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3.4KSaudi Arabia budget deficit swells on oil price fall
Saudi Arabia’s budget deficit soared to $98bn (£65.7bn) this year as the world’s biggest oil exporter counted the cost of falling crude...
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3.1KSyrian journalist & filmmaker who exposed DAESH Aleppo atrocities assassinated in Turkey
A prominent Syrian journalist and filmmaker, who produced anti-DAESH documentaries was gunned down by unknown assailants in broad daylight in Gaziantep, Turkey....
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3.1KIraqi forces take control over last DAESH stronghold in Ramadi
Iraqi forces have seized the government complex in the center of Ramadi – Islamic State’s last stronghold in the western city, a...
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3.0KCloser Russia-Iran cooperation to change geopolitical situation in Middle East
Russia is forestalling competition on the Iranian market after the sanctions against Teheran are lifted and is building up its military, trade...
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2.9KU.S. Pursued Secret Contacts With Assad Regime for Years
The Obama administration pursued secret communications with elements of Syria’s regime over several years in a failed attempt to get President Bashar...
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3.0KHead of major Syrian terrorist group killed in Damascus airstrike
The leader of one of Syria’s most powerful terrorist groups is thought to have been killed in a Russian airstrike near Damascus....
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2.9KArab League denounces Turkish troop deployment in Iraq
Cairo (AMCnews) – Arab foreign ministers condemned on Thursday a Turkish military deployment in Iraq as an “assault” on the country’s sovereignty,...
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2.8KEgypt demands immediate Turkish withdrawal from Iraqi territories
Egypt’s foreign affairs minister called on Thursday for “the immediate and unconditioned withdrawal of Turkish forces from Iraq,” describing it as a...
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3.3KTurkish forces will not withdraw from Iraq
Despite the announcement of a “partial withdrawal” of Turkish forces from a training camp near the DAESH-controlled northern Iraqi city of Mosul,...
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2.7KUN: Saudis Killing ‘Disproportionate’ Number of Yemeni Civilians
US Insists They’ve Urged Saudis to Stick to ‘Lawful’ Targeting. UN Human Rights Chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein, addressing the Security Council today,...