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  • Hama prison besieged as inmates riot

    Regime forces have encircled a prison in the central Syrian city of Hama as prisoners reportedly took captive the warden and several guards during heavy clashes. The prison uprising broke out in response to the regime's plans to forcibly transfer several detainees to Sednaya, an infamous prison near Damascus, sources inside the jail told Al Jazeera... More

  • Efforts intensify to protect Aleppo

    Bombardment of the northern city of Aleppo shows no sign of ending even as the Syrian regime military extends a unilateral ceasefire around Damascus and opposition strongholds nearby for another 48 hours. Monday's announcement of the truce extension came as a humanitarian convoy delivered aid to 12,000 families trapped in a regime-besieged area in.. More

  • Yemen gov’t suspends participation in Kuwait talks

    A Yemeni government delegation taking part in ongoing peace negotiations in Kuwait suspended its participation in the talks "indefinitely" on Sunday, according to a government source. The source, who spoke to Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media, attributed the move to "continued military.. More

  • Yemen gov’t suspends participation in Kuwait talks

    A Yemeni government delegation taking part in ongoing peace negotiations in Kuwait suspended its participation in the talks "indefinitely" on Sunday, according to a government source. The source, who spoke to Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media, attributed the move to "continued military.. More

  • Aleppo: Push to include battered city in Syria truce

    Diplomatic pressure is mounting to extend a ceasefire in Syria to Aleppo province after 10 days of fierce bombing that has killed hundreds of people there. Russian officials said on Sunday they were calling on the Syrian regime to include Aleppo in a temporary truce already in place in Latakia and around the capital, Damascus. US Secretary of State.. More

  • Arab League urged to discuss Syria's Aleppo offensive

    Qatar has called for an emergency meeting of the Arab League and urged the international community to "assume its responsibilities" as the Syrian regime keeps up its air offensive on the northern city of Aleppo. Regime warplanes and helicopter gunships launched new air strikes on Saturday on Aleppo's opposition-held neighborhoods, killing.. More

  • Israeli forces kill Palestinian woman and brother

    Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian woman and her teenage brother on Wednesday, saying they were ‘armed with knives and tried to carry out an attack at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank’. Palestinian authorities identified the two dead as Maram Abu Ismail, 23, and her 16-year-old brother, Ibrahim Taha, and said they had been en.. More

  • Hospital hit in Syria as UN warns talks unravelling

    At least 20 people have been killed in a Syrian regime air strike on a hospital in the city of Aleppo as the United Nations warned that a delicate ceasefire was crumbling, according to local sources. The attack on the Al Quds hospital on Wednesday killed several medical staff and other civilians, including Dr Wasem Maaz, one of the last remaining.. More

  • UN rejects Israel's claim over Syria's Golan Heights

    The UN Security Council has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that the annexed Golan Heights in Syria would "forever" remain under Israeli control. The 15-member council agreed on Tuesday that the status of the Golan, which Israel seized from Syria in 1967, "remains unchanged", Chinese Ambassador Liu Jieyi,.. More

  • Saudi Arabia agrees on plan to cut reliance on oil

    Saudi Arabia's cabinet has agreed on a broad-based economic reform plan, known as Vision 2030, revealing how the oil-reliant state plans to diversify its economy over the next 14 years. Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the deputy crown prince, said on Monday that the country was building up its Public Investment Fund to become a major player in global markets. H.. More

  • Turkish FM meets Saudi counterpart in Riyadh

    The Turkish foreign minister met with his Saudi counterpart in the Saudi capital Riyadh Sunday. Mevlut Cavusoglu and his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir discussed regional issues, the results of the 13th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation held in April in Istanbul. They also discussed the steps to be taken for the implementation of.. More

  • Syrian regime strikes on two opposition-held areas kill 23

    Syrian regime warplanes bombed the opposition-held town of Douma near Damascus and parts of Aleppo in the north on Saturday, killing 23 people, with the death toll likely to rise, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Mediators have struggled to get combatants in Syria's five-year-old war to honor a Feb. 27 cessation of hostilities deal to.. More

  • EU leaders praise Turkey for its treatment of refugees

    European leaders say a new deal with Turkey to stop refugees and migrants from making dangerous journeys is working. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and EU officials visited a refugee camp in southeastern Turkey on Saturday in an attempt to bolster the controversial deal. Merkel, accompanied by Donald Tusk, EU president, and Frans Timmermans, European.. More

  • Aleppo clashes displace 40,000 people

    At least 40,000 Syrians have fled fighting near the northern city of Aleppo in recent days as regime forces continue an offensive against opposition despite a truce, the United Nations said. Escalating violence has pushed people eastwards towards the strategically vital border town of Azaz, as well as the Bab al-Salam and Sijjou refugee camps, the.. More

  • Protest in Cairo over policeman killing of tea vendor

    Hundreds of people took to the streets of Egypt's capital to protest after an Egyptian police officer shot dead a street vendor and injured two others, state media said, in what was the latest in a series of incidents that have triggered public outrage over police abuses. Hesham Amer, police chief of the New Cairo district, said that three policemen.. More