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Baghdad attacks kill 16 as Iraq presses Anbar assault
The assassinations in particular harken back to Iraq’s brutal Sunni-Shi’a sectarian war…
Al-Qaeda disavows ISIL in Syria
Rebels have accused ISIL of seeking to consolidate power rather than fighting…
Gunmen kidnap British national in Yemeni capital
AFP – Gunmen kidnapped a British oil-sector employee in the Yemeni capital…
Bodies litter looted South Sudan town
The ruins of the town, in which hundreds of civilians were killed,…
Syria death toll tops 136,000, future talks uncertain
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll at the…
Talks over, little sign of progress towards Syria peace
Opposition National Coalition Chief Ahmad Jarba said the regime had failed to…
Syria will not make ‘any concessions’ in Geneva talks: Minister
Several hundred demonstrators cheered, waving Syrian flags in all sizes and giant…
Tunisia’s new government of independents sworn in
The formation of a new government comes after weeks of horse-trading and…
20,000 people in Syria’s Yarmuk camp face starvation
Yarmuk soon became a war zone too, as Syrians taking up arms…
Tunisia parliament approves new cabinet line-up
The line-up was only agreed after weeks of horse-trading and will replace…