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McCain blocks Obama's pick as No.2 diplomat over Iraq policy

U.S. Senator John McCain said on Thursday he is blocking President Barack Obama's nomination of Anth...

Dec 04, 2014 05:52 PM EST

Iraq's divisions will delay counter-offensive on Islamic State

U.S. air support and pledges of weapons and training for Iraq's army have raised expectations of a c...

Nov 30, 2014 08:44 AM EST

Bahrain holds elections, Shi'ite opposition boycotts vote

Bahrainis voted on Saturday in the first parliamentary elections since 2011 when mostly Shi'ite prot...

Nov 24, 2014 02:00 AM EST

Iraqi forces say retake two towns from Islamic State

Iraqi forces said on Sunday they retook two towns north of Baghdad from Islamic State fighters, driv...

Nov 24, 2014 01:34 AM EST

Jordan arrests deputy head of Muslim Brotherhood for criticizing UAE

Jordan arrested the deputy head of the country's Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday for criticizing the ...

Nov 21, 2014 12:31 AM EST

France to send military gear to Lebanon from early 2015: source

France will start delivering military equipment to the Lebanese army in the first quarter of 2015 as...

Nov 09, 2014 10:37 PM EST

Senior al Qaeda operative killed in US strike in Yemen: sources

A senior al Qaeda official wanted by the United States and a local leader of the militant group's af...

Nov 05, 2014 04:58 AM EST

Gunmen shoot dead five people in Saudi Arabia: state news

Unidentified gunmen shot dead five people in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province late on Monday evening,...

Nov 03, 2014 08:58 PM EST

Kurds' battle for Kobani unites a people divided by borders

Cloaked in Kurdish flags, thousands of people lined the roads to cheer on a military convoy headed f...

Oct 31, 2014 09:24 AM EDT

Assad's warnings start to ring true in Turkey

When Sunni rebels rose up against Syria's Bashar al-Assad in 2011, Turkey reclassified its protégé...

Oct 27, 2014 10:17 PM EDT

After victory in key Iraqi town, time for revenge

After helping government forces break Islamic State's grip over a strategic town just south of Baghd...

Oct 26, 2014 09:31 PM EDT

East of Kobani, Turkish town appreciates 'peace' brought by Islamic State

Residents of a Turkish border town, an hour's drive from where Islamic State is battling for control...

Oct 23, 2014 10:11 AM EDT

Saudi Arabia jails al Qaeda suspects over plot to hit U.S. forces

A Saudi court has sentenced 17 people, four of them women, to prison terms of up to 30 years in two ...

Oct 23, 2014 12:17 AM EDT

Lebanon blocks Syrian refugees from entering: United Nations

The Lebanese government has cut back sharply on the number of Syrian refugees it is allowing into th...

Oct 18, 2014 08:28 AM EDT

Yemen's Houthis advance near al Qaeda stronghold

Yemen's new Shi'ite Muslim powerbrokers sent fighters towards an al Qaeda stronghold on Wednesday, r...

Oct 15, 2014 07:09 PM EDT

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