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Trial of Turkey opposition daily staff resumes 31 Oct 2017 - 12:41 pm
Peninsula
Access to food 'precarious' for Syrians stranded near Jordan 31 Oct 2017 - 12:05 pm
A file photo of Syrian children at school in a refugee camp in Jordan. Reuters.
IAEA inspectors in Iran working 'without problem': Amano 31 Oct 2017 - 11:13 am
A file photo of a handout picture provided by the office of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on October 29, 2017 shows him (R) greeting Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano (L) ahead of their meeting in Tehran. A
Canada keeps hospital open in Erbil 31 Oct 2017 - 10:41 am
Peninsula
Turkey's Erdogan takes legal action after lawmaker calls him 'fascist dictator' 31 Oct 2017 - 09:15 am
A file photo of Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan. Reuters
Seven Palestinians killed as Israel hits Gaza tunnel 30 Oct 2017 - 09:29 pm
People gather around bodies of Palestinians killed in a tunnel near the border between Israel and central Gaza Strip October 30, 2017. Reuters/Mohammed Salem
UK’s Boris Johnson says 1917 Jewish homeland declaration terms “not fully realised” 30 Oct 2017 - 08:17 pm
Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson gives a speech at the British Embassy during his European tour on Brexit, in Paris, France, October 27, 2017. Reuters/Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt
Three Palestinians killed in Israeli operation to blow up Gaza tunnel 30 Oct 2017 - 07:02 pm
Israeli soldiers patrol close to the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip on October 30, 2017, near Kibbutz Kissufim in southern Israel. A Palestinian was killed and nine others injured when Israel blew up a tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into its te
US welcomes Iraq-Kurd leader Barzani's resignation 30 Oct 2017 - 05:51 pm
An Iraqi Kurd wears a scarf bearing a portrait of the Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani, during a protest in support of him, in Arbil, the capital of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, on October 30, 2017.  AFP / SAFIN HAMED
Tears as Syria families welcome relatives freed from IS 30 Oct 2017 - 05:35 pm
A Syrian man from the recently retaken desert town of Al-Qaryatain is greeted by relatives on October 29, 2017, after the Syrian army reportedly freed him from Islamic State (IS) group detention.  AFP / LOUAI BESHARA
Aid for 40,000 enters besieged rebel area near Damascus: UN 30 Oct 2017 - 05:31 pm
A man lays on a stretcher after receiving treatment, who was injured in an attack carried out by Assad regime forces, which hit a de-escalation zone, at a military hospital in Eastern Ghouta region of Damascus, Syria on October 29, 2017. Ammar Süleyman -
Al-Abadi, British foreign secretary talk Iraqi crisis 30 Oct 2017 - 12:44 pm
Peninsula
Syria: Regime shelling kills 11 civilians in E. Ghouta 30 Oct 2017 - 12:36 pm
A wounded child cries as he receives treatment after Assad Regime forces attacked to the de-conflict zone Sabqa city of Damascus, at a hospital in the Eastern Ghouta region of Damascus, Syria on October 29, 2017. Samir Tatin - AA
Mass trial of Turkey alleged coup ringleaders resumes 30 Oct 2017 - 11:53 am
File picture of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in the United States, is among several of the 221 suspects named in the indictment who are on the run.
Kurdish parties opposed to Barzani report attacks on offices overnight 30 Oct 2017 - 08:53 am
A still image taken from a video shows Kurdish President Masoud Barzani giving a televised speech in Erbil, Iraq, October 29, 2017. KURDISTAN 24 TV via REUTERS TV
Syrian hostages who escaped Islamic State receive rapturous homecoming 29 Oct 2017 - 11:15 pm
Relatives hug one of the hostages held by Islamic State militants who escaped from his captors in Qaryatayn town in Homs province, Syria October 29, 2017. Reuters/Omar Sanadiki
One year on, tensions simmer in neglected Moroccan north 29 Oct 2017 - 11:01 pm
Moroccan police search for protestors from the Morocco's al-Hirak al-Shaabi movement on October 28, 2017 in Al Hoceima in the troubled northern Rif region, to mark the anniversary of the death of fishmonger Mouhcine Fikri, who was crushed to death a year
“Nobody stood with the Kurds” says bitter Barzani 29 Oct 2017 - 09:06 pm
Masoud Barzani