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World / Middle East

New talks on Sudan civil rule Monday: protest movement 12 May 2019 - 03:32 pm
Sudanese protesters wave national flags at the sit-in outside the army headquarters in Khartoum on May 9, 2019. / AFP / Mohamed el-Shahed
Syria says insurgent shelling kills 6 civilians in northwest 12 May 2019 - 03:13 pm
A member of the Syrian Civil Defence (White Helmets) inspect the rubble following shelling by Syrian regime forces and their allies on a the village of Maarit Sin in the countryside of the rebel-held Idlib province on May 11, 2019. / AFP / OMAR HAJ KADOUR
Iran says US aircraft carrier 'psychological war' 12 May 2019 - 02:45 pm
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln transits the Suez Canal in Egypt, May 9, 2019. Picture was taken May 9, 2019. Dan Snow/U.S. Navy
Money, guns and brides fuel South Sudan's cattle wars 12 May 2019 - 12:38 pm
A man carrying a gun walks past cattle at Kirgui village in Udier, on March 9, 2019. AFP/Simon Maina
Moderate quake jolts Iran's west 11 May 2019 - 03:52 pm
Peninsula
Sudan military calls for new talks: protest movement 11 May 2019 - 03:10 pm
Spokesman of Sudan's Transitional Military Council Lieutenant General Shamseddine Kabbashi speaks during a press conference in Khartoum on May 7, 2019.  AFP / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED
Australian-Lebanese ordered released in Sydney bomb plot 11 May 2019 - 02:56 pm
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Conflicts uproot a record 41 mln in their own countries 10 May 2019 - 10:58 pm
Internally displaced Syrians wait near the Bab al-Salam crossing, opposite the Turkey's Kilis province, on the outskirts of the northern Syrian border town of Azaz in this Reuters file photo
Three migrants drown off Tunisian coast, dozens missing 10 May 2019 - 08:28 pm
Migrants are seen onboard a Libyan Coast Guard vessel following a rescue operation in central Mediterranean Sea, January 31, 2018. Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis
Lebanon students get classes in surviving war and disasters 10 May 2019 - 12:09 am
Volunteers conduct a first-aid check on a student during a safety drill at ATakmiliyat Al Kobba 2nd School in Tripoli, Lebanon, March 28, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Heba Kenso
In Syria's Aleppo, the customers are back in the bathhouse 09 May 2019 - 03:38 pm
A girl carries a stack of bread on her head as she walks near rubble of damaged buildings in Aleppo's Kalasa district, Syria April 12, 2019. Picture taken April 12, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
Syrian troops capture northwestern village from rebels 09 May 2019 - 02:38 pm
Syrians drive with their belongings along the main Damascus-Aleppo highway near the town of Saraqib in Syria's jihadist-held Idlib province on May 9, 2019 as they flee possible air strikes by the regime and its allies in the area.   AFP / Anas AL-dyab
'Feels terrible': Iran a year after US sanctions reimposed 08 May 2019 - 10:45 pm
Iranians shop for ingredients on the third day of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan in northern Tehran on May 8, 2019.  AFP / Atta Kenare
Syrian ground troops capture rebel enclave 08 May 2019 - 07:58 pm
Peninsula
Escalation in Syria's Idlib rattles months-old truce 07 May 2019 - 04:41 pm
A Syrian man inspects the totally destroyed building after an attack by Assad regime forces on residential areas located inside northern Syria’s de-escalation zones, at Ras al-Ayn town of Saraqib district in Idlib, Syria on May 07, 2019. ( Hasan Muhtar -
Erdogan welcomes controversial re-run of Istanbul vote 07 May 2019 - 02:44 pm
Turkish President and leader of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends his party's parliamentary group meeting at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in Ankara, Turkey on May 07, 2019.  Ra?it Aydo?an - Anadolu
Bush fire razes four villages in South Sudan, kills 33 07 May 2019 - 10:42 am
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90 Sudanese protesters killed since December: Doctors 06 May 2019 - 05:11 pm
Sudanese protesters, waving national flags, take part in a sit-in outside the army headquarters in Khartoum on May 5, 2019.  AFP / ASHRAF SHAZLY