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World / Middle East

Yemen calm as ceasefire takes hold 20 Nov 2016 - 12:06 pm
Yemenis walk past stalls at a market on November 19, 2016 in the capital Sanaa as a 48-hour ceasefire, announced by a Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels, began ©Abdel Rahman Abdallah (AFP)
Erdogan says Turkey can spurn EU and join Shanghai Pact 20 Nov 2016 - 11:34 am
Photo: Reuters.
For Syria rebels, Trump win adds to uncertain fate 20 Nov 2016 - 10:14 am
A Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki fighter watches news about Donald Trump's election as president in Aleppo. Reuters
White House warns Syria, Russia on 'heinous' bombings in Aleppo 19 Nov 2016 - 08:13 pm
US National Security Advisor Susan Rice (L), US President Barack Obama (C) and Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (R) wait for a meeting at the Lima Convention Center on November 19, 2016 in Lima, Peru. (AFP / Brendan Smialowski)
UN 'appalled' by Syria violence, urges Aleppo access 19 Nov 2016 - 08:02 pm
Syrians comfort each other on November 19, 2016 following a reported air strike on Aleppo's rebel-held neighbourhood of Bab al-Nayrab. Intense government air strikes and artillery fire killed at least 27 people in rebel-held parts of Syria's Aleppo, where
'Catastrophic day' as Syria regime pounds rebel Aleppo 19 Nov 2016 - 06:48 pm
A Syrian civil defence volunteer, known as the White Helmets, carries an injured man on November 19, 2016 following a reported air strike on Aleppo's rebel-held neighbourhood of Bab al-Nayrab. Intense government air strikes and artillery fire killed at le
Egypt probes death of man in custody 19 Nov 2016 - 05:27 pm
 An Egyptian woman hugs a youth who was released from the capital Cairo's Tora prison on November 18, 2016. Egypt released today 82 detainees, more than 30 of them students, after a pardon was issued a day earlier by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi followi
Turkish finance officials arrested over coup links 19 Nov 2016 - 03:07 pm
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Welcome our fight against terror, Turkish minister says 19 Nov 2016 - 03:02 pm
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Palestinians bury youth killed by Israel on Gaza border 19 Nov 2016 - 02:57 pm
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Yemen truce takes effect after week of US pressure 19 Nov 2016 - 02:33 pm
A fighter loyal to Yemen's exiled President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi runs behind a tank near the city of Taiz on 7 September 2016 (AFP)
Egypt sentences journalist union head to two years' jail 19 Nov 2016 - 02:28 pm
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Egypt sentences journalist union head to two years' prison 19 Nov 2016 - 02:25 pm
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62,000 civilians displaced since Mosul offensive 19 Nov 2016 - 02:04 pm
Photo: AA.
Turkish military announces killing 20 militants in northern Syria 19 Nov 2016 - 01:49 pm
Photo: Reuters.
Car-bomb kills 3 Iraqi troops south of Mosul 19 Nov 2016 - 01:38 pm
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6 arrested over copper mine collapse in Turkey 19 Nov 2016 - 01:33 pm
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Hashd al-Shaabi militias poised to take Iraq’s Tal Afar 19 Nov 2016 - 12:45 pm
Military vehicle of Shi'ite fighters drive during a battle with Islamic State militants at the airport of Tal Afar west of Mosul, Iraq November 18, 2016. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani