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Britain wants to de-escalate tensions with Iran: Hunt 20 Jul 2019 - 08:26 pm
Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is seen outside Downing Street in London, Britain July 20,2019. Reuters/Simon Dawson
Iraq Kurds arrest suspect in killing of Turkish vice consul 20 Jul 2019 - 05:12 pm
This handout photograph released by the Kurdistan Region Counterterrorism Unit on July 20, 2019, shows 27-year-old Mazloum Dag, a Kurdish man from Turkey who was identified as the suspected shooter in the murder of a Turkish diplomat, standing at an undis
India, Philippines seeking sailors release from British-flagged tanker seized by Iran 20 Jul 2019 - 12:19 pm
Stena Impero, a British-flagged tanker, off the coast of Europoort in Rotterdam on April 3, 2018.  (AFP PHOTO / MARINETRAFFIC.COM / JAN VERHOOG)
Nearly 100 injured in Gaza border protests 19 Jul 2019 - 09:41 pm
An injured Palestinian demonstrator is being moved away from the site after the intervention of Israeli forces during a demonstration within the
US will shoot down any Iranian drones that fly 'too close' to its ships, official says 19 Jul 2019 - 05:50 pm
An Iranian Shahed 171 drone dropping a bomb as part of a military exercise in the Gulf, in Iran, in this undated handout photo. Tasnim News Agency/via Reuters
Rebel qualms delay Sudan army-protesters meet 19 Jul 2019 - 03:05 pm
Sudanese protesters chant slogans and wave national flags as they march in the capital Khartoum's Green Square on July 18, 2019, as they honour comrades killed in the months-long protest movement that has rocked the country. AFP
Erbil shooting was ‘premeditated terrorist attack’; Turkey bids farewell to diplomat killed in Iraq 19 Jul 2019 - 03:04 pm
Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar condoles with Sidika Kose (L), mother of Turkish diplomat Osman Kose, who was martyred in an armed attack in Iraq's Erbil, during the funeral ceremony at Ahmet Hamdi Akseki Mosque in Ankara, Turkey on July 18,
Turkey: 7 people missing after flash floods 19 Jul 2019 - 03:04 pm
Peninsula
All drones safely returned to base, Iran denies US claims of destroying drone 19 Jul 2019 - 10:53 am
(FILES) This US Navy file photo shows the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4). (AFP PHOTO /US NAVY/Greg Z. RODARTE/HANDOUT)
Moroccan court: 3 death sentences in slaying of Nordic women 18 Jul 2019 - 07:29 pm
Men, accused in the killing of a Danish and Norwegian hikers in the Atlas mountains near Marrakech last December, are seen inside a car after leaving the courtroom in Sale, near Rabat, Morocco, July 18, 2019. Reuters/Youssef Boudlal
Sudan protesters, army rulers ink power sharing deal 18 Jul 2019 - 05:51 am
Deputy Head of Sudanese Transitional Military Council, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and opposition alliance signed coalition's leader Ahmad al-Rabiah shake hands after signing a political accord as part of a power-sharing deal aimed at leading the country to dem
Israel's Barak defiant after criticism over Epstein links 17 Jul 2019 - 06:16 pm
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak attends a rally organised by members of the LGBT community against the Education Minister following his remarks on gay conversion therapy, in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on July 14, 2019. AFP / Jack Guez
Attack in restaurant in northern Iraq kills Turkish diplomat 17 Jul 2019 - 04:10 pm
A restaurant where Turkish diplomats were killed is seen in Erbil, Iraq July 17, 2019. Reuters/Azad Lashkari
Syrian air strike on village market kill at least 12: rescuers 17 Jul 2019 - 01:40 am
Civil defence crew members carry an injured person away from the scene after airstrikes by Assad Regime hit the de-escalation zone of Maar Shurin village in Idlib, Syria on July 16, 2019. At least 9 civilians were killed and 14 injured. (Izeddin Idilbi/An
Iran says it came to help of disabled foreign oil tanker in the Gulf 16 Jul 2019 - 11:14 pm
A British Royal Navy patrol vessel guards the oil supertanker Grace 1, that's on suspicion of carrying Iranian crude oil to Syria, as it sits anchored in waters of the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, historically claimed by Spain, July 4, 2019. R
UAE says missing oil tanker didn't give any distress signal 16 Jul 2019 - 06:58 pm
Peninsula
Rouhani says Iran ready to talk to US if sanctions lifted 14 Jul 2019 - 06:30 pm
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani makes a speech during his visit in Khorasan, Iran on July 14, 2019. (Iranian Presidency/Anadolu Agency)
Children among 15 civilians killed in Syria strikes 13 Jul 2019 - 08:43 pm
Members of the Syrian Civil Defence (White Helmets) carry away a body following a reported regime airstrike on the village of Kafriya, in Syria's Idlib province, on July 13, 2019. (AFP / Omar HAJ KADOUR)