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After Saudi deal, Iran says hopes to restore Bahrain ties 13 Mar 2023 - 05:38 pm
People walk at the Pardisan park with a view of the Milad tower in Tehran, on March 12, 2023. (Photo by Atta Kenare / AFP)
Iran says deal with Saudi Arabia will help end Yemen's war 12 Mar 2023 - 08:57 pm
Newspapers in Tehran feature on their front page news about the China-brokered deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore ties, signed in Beijing the previous day, on March 11, 2023. (Photo by Atta Kenare / AFP)
Up to 500 IS fighters still active in Iraq: military 12 Mar 2023 - 08:24 pm
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Three truffle hunters killed, 26 kidnapped in north Syria: monitor 11 Mar 2023 - 05:01 pm
In this file photo merchants present their desert truffles at a market in the city of Hama in west-central Syria on March 6, 2023. - Suspected Islamic State group militants killed three truffle hunters and kidnapped at least 26 others in northern Syria on March 11, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, in the latest grisly incident during this year's harvest. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
Yemen sides begin UN-brokered talks on prisoner exchange 11 Mar 2023 - 04:33 pm
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Saudi-Iranian-Chinese statement: Riyadh, Tehran agree to resume diplomatic relations 10 Mar 2023 - 06:00 pm
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Erdogan sets Turkiye election date for May 14 10 Mar 2023 - 03:45 pm
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UN signs deal to salvage stranded oil from tanker off Yemen 10 Mar 2023 - 12:02 am
A satellite image from 2020 by Maxar Technologies shows the FSO Safer oil abandoned off the coast of Yemen. Handout / Satellite image ©2020 Maxar Technologies/AFP/File
Rights group says Lebanon electricity crisis deepens poverty 09 Mar 2023 - 05:12 pm
Lebanese demonstrators block a road with burning tyres in front of the Electricite Du Liban company building in the southern city of Sidon, as the country struggles with a deep economic crisis. File photo / AFP
Egypt government amends nationality requirements for foreigners 08 Mar 2023 - 05:34 pm
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Four dead in latest Egypt train crash 08 Mar 2023 - 03:51 pm
Policemen watch from atop a bridge as a crane is deployed to lift a derailed train at the scene of a railroad accident in the city of Qalyub in Qalyub province, in Egypt's Nile delta region north of the capital on March 7, 2023. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
Pentagon chief in Iraq says US wants to 'strengthen' ties 07 Mar 2023 - 08:38 pm
President of the Iraqi Kurdistan autonomous region Nechirvan Barzani (right) receives US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Arbil on March 7, 2023. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP)
Iran in first arrests as school poisoning cases top 5,000 07 Mar 2023 - 04:29 pm
This grab taken from a UGC video made available on the ESN platform on March 4, 2023, shows families gathering and chanting slogans outside an education ministry building in Tehran, following poisoning attacks on students. (Photo by Anonymous/ESN / AFP) 
Alliance picks main opposition leader to run against Erdogan 06 Mar 2023 - 11:41 pm
Kemal Kilicdaroglu leader of the Republican People party CHP speaking after he was confirmed as the Turkish opposition's joint candidate to run against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkiye's Presidential elections in May in Ankara, Turkiye, on March 6, 2023. (Photo by Adem ALTAN / AFP)
UNESCO chief promises help in restoring Iraq's looted sites 06 Mar 2023 - 09:39 pm
UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay smiles as she is gifted a traditional dress during a visit to the national museum in Baghdad on March 6, 2023 as part of a three-day visit to Iraq where many priceless cultural treasures have been damaged or destroyed during decades of conflict. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
Archaeologists in Egypt unearth Sphinx-like Roman-era statue 06 Mar 2023 - 06:16 pm
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Al-Qaida says 2 operatives killed in drone strike in Yemen 06 Mar 2023 - 06:02 pm
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Lebanon to quiz embattled central bank chief 06 Mar 2023 - 05:28 pm
File Photo: Lebanon's Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh