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Houthi fighters fire missile at Riyadh

Tue Dec 19, 2017 21:03:32

Witnesses in the Saudi capital said they had heard an explosion and posted videos on social media showing a cloud of smoke in the air.

US business in West Asia almost over: Hezbollah

Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:15:44

Senior representative of Hezbollah office in Tehran said that the US is playing its last hand in West Asia following the repeated defeats of Saudi and Israeli plots in the region.

Defeated militarily in 2017, Isis remains a global threat

Tue Dec 19, 2017 11:36:26

The year 2017 saw significant destruction to Isis, which lost almost all of its self-proclaimed "Caliphate" in Iraq and Syria, but experts warn the group is adapting and continues to be a threat.

$200bn to reconstruct war-torn Syria… the US and its partners should pay

Tue Dec 19, 2017 09:51:50

With Syria’s nearly seven-year war now virtually over, the process of rebuilding the devastated country comes to the fore, with the financial cost of that effort put at $200 billion. Who pays for it?

U.S. vetoes U.N. resolution rejecting Trump’s decision on al-Quds

Tue Dec 19, 2017 09:11:15

The United States blocked a Security Council resolution Monday at the United Nations that would have rejected President Trump’s recognition of al-Quds as Israel’s capital.

Slovenia's recognition of Palestine matter of timing: parliament speaker

Tue Dec 19, 2017 08:49:18

Slovenian Parliament Speaker Milan Brglez on Monday told Palestinian ambassador Salah Abdel-Shafi that Slovenia's recognition of the Palestinian state was "not in doubt" but only a matter of the right timing.

Millions of lives still at risk after 1,000 days of war in Yemen, warns aid agency

Tue Dec 19, 2017 07:58:47

Yemen risks sliding into famine and further disease outbreaks unless all the country’s ports are fully reopened, aid agency CARE has warned as the country marks 1,000 days since conflict began.

Pence postpones Middle East visit, White House says as protests continue

Tue Dec 19, 2017 07:28:31

US Vice President Mike Pence has cancelled a visit to al-Quds for now.

Saudi Arabia told by UK minister to stop blocking Yemen aid

Mon Dec 18, 2017 11:53:52

Saudi Arabia has “no excuse” for blocking aid to Yemen, the international development secretary, Penny Mordaunt, said as she warned that “using starvation as a weapon” was a breach of humanitarian law.

Afghan official: Gunmen attack Afghan forces in Kabul

Mon Dec 18, 2017 10:42:04

An Afghan official says an attack is underway in the country's capital where gunmen have raided and occupied a partially constructed building near an intelligence training center in western Kabul.

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