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The Iraqi air force has targeted a meeting of commanders from the Islamic State group that its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may have been attending,...

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Authorities in Bahrain must refrain from using excessive force against protesters, Amnesty International urged as mass protests are under way on 14 February, to...

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The photograph is a still image of messages, trapped fleetingly.  For that reason, it has been seen as mimicking death, a mask forever preserved. ...

Nine young children killed: The full details of botched US raid...

Planned for months, it was decided over dinner. The raid on a village in rural Yemen reportedly aimed to capture or kill one of the...

Russian airstrike kills 3 Turkish soldiers in al-Bab, Syria

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A Russian plane, conducting anti-ISIS operations in northern Syria, accidentally carried out an airstrike on a building in al-Bab that...

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Why Morocco’s burqa ban is more than just a security measure?

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The current state of affairs in the Middle East reflect that the longest, most expensive, destructive and controversial ‘War on Terror’ is now probably entering its...

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