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Iraq on Tuesday summoned Turkey’s ambassador to Baghdad in protest at a new Turkish offensive targeting rebels in the north’s autonomous Kurdistan region. Turkey on Monday said it has launched an air and ground offensive against militants of the outlaw…

Israeli forces escorted far-right settlers on a provocative rally to an evacuated illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, according to media reports, attacking Palestinians on the way. The demonstration saw around 10,000 settlers march to…

Based in one of the most conflict-prone neighbourhoods in the world, Jordan has served as an island of peace and stability for decades. However, climate change threatens the nation’s humdrum reputation as rising global temperatures and waves of refugee…

British boxer Amir Khan said he was robbed at gunpoint when out with his wife in East London on Monday. The Olympic silver medalist wrote on Twitter that two men ran toward him and demanded he hand over his watch while holding a gun to his face. The Bo…

Last year, shortly after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, Nasratullah decided to set out for Europe. The 22-year-old had hoped to make it at least to Greece, instead he, along with three other Afghans ended up stranded in Syria. The young men, …

A Moroccan opposition party has introduced a bill to the Moroccan parliament seeking amnesty for the prisoners related to the Hirak Rif movement, eight of whom remain behind bars since protests over social injustices in North Morocco erupted in 2016. N…

The Syrian regime continued a crushing siege of two Kurdish neighbourhoods in Syria’s largest city of Aleppo for the twelfth day running on Tuesday. The Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiya neighbourhoods, controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces…

Eighteen-year-old Hanan Khudour is the latest Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank, after she succumbed on Sunday to wounds caused by Israeli gunfire during an Israeli army raid on Jenin city in the northern part of the occupied …

Twenty million people are at risk of starvation this year as delayed rains worsen an already brutal drought in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, the UN warned Tuesday. An extreme months-long drought has left the Horn of Africa on the verge of a humanitarian…

Five years ago, Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France. He stood for office on a platform of radical change and a departure from the status quo. He promised to reinvent the French state, revitalise its economy, and change the country in social…