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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's embattled prime minister has fought off an attempt to push him out of office, aided by divisions among his opponents and Iranian intervention on his behalf. Nouri al-Maliki's tactical victory averts a potentially destabilizing contest to replace him, at least for the time...
A new countrywide initiative to make Oman a healthier and more active nation has been launched here. Spearheaded by the Ministry of Health, the campaign, called 'Let's Rise', seeks to help individuals, families and organisations to adopt smarter and...
Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's deputy military chief is warning that Syria has the biggest chemical weapons stocks in the world and missiles and rockets that can reach...
For some journalists, Syria has been one of the least hospitable countries in the Middle East, a place where reporters — if they can get in — are routinely harassed and threatened as they try to uncover the repression that has propped up the Assad government for decades. Enlarge This...
ISTANBUL — Syrian government forces shelled rebel strongholds across the country on Sunday, opponents of the government said, while the main opposition group in exile, the Syrian National Council, chose a new leader. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking...
The attack took place in the Kadhimiya district, where pilgrims were gathering ahead of a religious festival to mark the anniversary of the death of the Shia Imam, Moussa al-Kadhim. An interior ministry source said security forces had been put on high alert and that a tight security belt was in...
It was, in the words of U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan, the âtipping pointâ in the Syria conflict: a savage massacre of over 90 people, predominantly women and children, for which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad was immediately blamed by virtually the entirety of the Western media. Within...
Egyptian liberals have walked out of a meeting to select members of a panel to write the country's new constitution, charging Islamists of trying to take seats allocated for secular parties. The walkout on Sunday could throw the writing of the constitution, which would lay out the powers of the...
