Arabic and international

Talks on the devastating war in Sudan ended Friday without a ceasefire but with progress on securing aid access on two key routes into a country facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. War has raged since April 2023 between…
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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday said he had spoken with his Israeli counterpart to discuss a range of issues in the region, including the ongoing exchanges of fire on the Israel-Lebanon border and the need to finalize a…
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Iran has arrested 14 suspected Daesh members who were allegedly planning attacks in the country, authorities said on Friday. The 14 members of “Daesh-Khorasan have been arrested” in a series of operations, the intelligence ministry said…
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A war monitor said Israeli air strikes on Syria targeting positions of the army and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah killed three Iran-backed fighters on Friday. “Israeli strikes have so far killed three pro-Iranian fighters and wounded about…
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A Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal “now is in sight,” the US envoy to the United Nations told the Security Council on Thursday, urging members to press Palestinian militant group Hamas to accept a bridging proposal agreed to by…
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The World Food Programme has announced the arrival of a rare convoy of humanitarian aid into civil war-torn Sudan via a temporarily reopened border crossing with Chad. “More than a dozen aid trucks — including some from the WFP and the…
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A Tunisian court released government critic and former presidential hopeful Safi Said from custody Thursday after he was arrested for crossing into Algeria “illegally,” Tunisian media reported. Said, 70, a vocal opponent of Tunisian…
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An Algerian oil tanker set sail Thursday for power-hungry Lebanon, official media said, with 30,000 tons of fuel destined to restart turbines in the country grappling with years of economic meltdown. Clashes in Lebanon’s south since last…
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A bus carrying Shiite pilgrims from Pakistan to Iraq crashed in central Iran, killing at least 28 people, an official said Wednesday. The crash happened Tuesday night in the central Iranian province of Yazd, said Mohammad Ali Malekzadeh,…
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voiced hope Tuesday that an emerging humanitarian agreement in Sudan would build momentum for a broader deal to end the country’s devastating war. Blinken, on visits to Egypt and Qatar mostly focused…
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