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Suspected UAE spy 'kills himself in Turkish prison' 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1517
Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar is no democrat - UN envoy 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1520
Fall of Bashir risks leaving Sudan prey to rival regional powers 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1563
Yazidi leaders to allow Isis rape survivors to return with children 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1484
Amnesty, monitors say U.S.-led coalition killed 1,600 civilians in Syria's Raqqa 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1479
From Sudan's protesters, a warning to Saudi Arabia and the UAE: Don't meddle 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 2125
U.N. rights boss condemns Saudi Arabia beheading 37 men 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1459
Bahrain king reinstates nationality to 551 citizens tried in courts 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1524
Four killed in failed attack on Saudi state security building 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1362
U.N. urges resolving fate of 2,500 foreign children at Syria camp 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1576
Dispute flares among U.S. officials over Trump administration Iran arms control report 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1496
Egypt constitutional changes could mean Sisi rule until 2030 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1609
Bahrain court sentences 139 to jail in mass terror trial 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1513
In Libya, a rogues' gallery of militias prepare for war 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1426
Iraq seeks multibillion dollar fee to receive Isis prisoners 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1463
Flood-hit Iran getting no financial aid from abroad due to U.S. sanctions: statement 1 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1714
Libya's Most Powerful General, a U.S. Citizen, Is Taking Over With or Without the World's Support 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1585
Cholera is surging once again in war-ravaged Yemen 1 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1529
US expected to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a foreign terrorist organization 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1608
House rebukes Trump on Saudi Arabia, backs measure to end Yemen involvement 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1458
Egypt killed tourists with US weapons. An American survivor wants justice 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1496
The Islamic State's refugees are facing a humanitarian calamity 1 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 2058
Saudi women activists back in court as West watches 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1446
Algeria's Bouteflika to resign before mandate ends April 28: state media 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1660
America's Foreign Hackers: American Hackers Helped UAE Spy on Al Jazeera Chairman, BBC Host 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1441
How the mysteries of Khashoggi's murder have rocked the U.S.-Saudi partnership 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1623
Houthi leader attacks UK's Jeremy Hunt over efforts to relax Saudi arms ban 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1600
Human rights groups urge F1 to act over jailed Bahraini activist Najah Yusuf 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1583
Egyptian actors who criticized Sissi in Washington are kicked out of union 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1812
Luxembourg court delivers setback to 9/11 families' Iran claims 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1337

Middle East Continued...

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Eleven female Saudi activists appear in Riyadh court 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1731
Airstrike on remote Yemen hospital kills at least seven 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1666
Islamic State group: Syria's Kurds call for international tribunal 1 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1957
Egypt bans singer from performing over free-speech remarks 1 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1987
U.S. pressure on Hezbollah, Iran is working, Pompeo says in Beirut 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1840
Death toll climbs at Syrian camp 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1755
Victory over Islamic State to be announced after enclave searched: SDF 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1552
U.S. grants Iraq 90-day waiver to buy Iranian energy: State Dept 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1837
Islamic State fighters pinned on Syrian riverbank, warplanes fly above 1 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1837
Algerian army says protesters have expressed 'noble aims' 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1595
Powerful Algerian party abandons beleaguered Bouteflika 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1655
How Iran fuel oil exports beat U.S. sanctions in tanker odyssey to Asia 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1633
Saudi Arabia curbs family influence in Binladin group shake-up 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1744
Saudi crown prince ran brutal campaign to silence dissent more than a year before Khashoggi murder, 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1792
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 Mosby Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1722
U.S. Senate to vote Wednesday on Saudi Yemen war resolution 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1728
Iranian human rights lawyer sentenced to 38 years in jail, lashes: husband 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1789
U.S. Woman Mired in Saudi Arabia Is Granted Legal Saudi Residency 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1806
Return of the cat man of Aleppo 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1779
Shamima Begum: IS teenager's baby son has died, SDF confirms 1 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1780
IS retakes almost all of vital Syria border town 2 Mosby Nov 2017 Mar 2019 0 2621
Big anti-Bouteflika protest fills Algerian capital 1 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1809
Islamic State extremism on show at 'miserable' Syria camp 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1625
Iran cleric linked to 1988 mass executions to lead judiciary 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1790
Rumours grow of rift between Saudi king and crown prince 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1798
Saudi app used to track women 'not against' Google rules 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1741
Russia tells Syrian asylum seekers: You need to go home 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1753
Ten Islamic State members executed by rival jihadists in northwest Syria 2 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1966
Former Yazidi captives of IS reunite with families in Iraq 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1550
Saudi Arabia: detained women's rights activists to be put on trial 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1465

Middle East Continued...

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Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif, architect of nuclear deal, resigns 0 Mosby Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1569
Iraq President Salih says French Islamic State detainees transferred to Iraq will be tried there 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1461
U.S.-backed SDF hands over 280 Islamic State fighters to Iraq 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1456
UN nuclear watchdog: Iran stays within limits of 2015 deal 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1529
Iran starts Gulf war games, to test submarine-launched missiles 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1454
Operation to end last IS Syria pocket hits evacuation snag 1 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1492
Nine executed in Egypt over Hisham Barakat assassination 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1483
Germany's ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi's killing is having a bigger impact th 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1518
U.S.-backed Syria force seeks help with Islamic State prisoner 'time bomb' 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1406
Iran confirms second failed satellite launch: NBC News 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1400
Egypt: 7 Sinai jihadists killed, 15 soldiers dead or wounded in attack 0 Mosby Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1330
Powerful labor union head officially joins Gantz's Knesset slate 0 Mosby Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1199
UK's Saudi weapons sales unlawful, Lords committee finds 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1309
Alarm raised over bill allowing Sisi to rule Egypt until 2034 1 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1400
Trump former inaugural committee chair defends Saudi Arabia 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1427
Suicide attack kills 20 members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards: Fars news 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1270
UAE woman who fled family begs to be allowed to claim asylum 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 4 1423
Iraqi Christians fear returning home, wary of Shiite militia 1 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1336
Iran warns it would 'raze Tel Aviv to the ground' if attacked by U.S.: IRNA 1 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1472
Iranians mark anniversary of victory day in 1979 revolution 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1128
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