Middle East and North Africa
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Lords report calls for fresh alliances to be forged in region and criticises approaches to Syria, Arab spring and Saudi arms sales
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Document aims to heal divisions within Palestinian movement and ease peace process but Netanhayu says: ‘Hamas is attempting to fool the world’
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Following Turkish airstrikes last week, US armoured vehicles have been deployed as a buffer between Kurdish and Turkish forces
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Even though conditions are dire, the remaining citizens of the once thriving city are trying to pick up the pieces of their former lives
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Service member dies of wounds sustained in explosion, following the deaths of two soldiers in Afghanistan this week
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Bath University staff head an international team working on shelters capable of withstanding extremes of temperature
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Saeed Karimian, founder of Farsi-language network GEM TV, reportedly shot dead along with his Kuwaiti business partner
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Kimberley Taylor from Blackburn is part of the all-female Kurdish force battling to rout Islamic State. Driving them on is the chance to free women enslaved by the extremists: ‘It starts with fighting Daesh, then the mentality of the male’
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Unless both sides bend, there can be no resolution. Imaginative leadership is essential
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Houdeidah’s port is Yemen’s lifeline. The US shouldn’t be supporting any Saudi- and United Arab Emirates-led military attacks to take it back
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Frustration mounts among locals on the Greek island, where refugees feel like prisoners with no hope of getting to mainland Europe
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Italian intelligence document reveals how group has infiltrated Europe using scheme meant to treat wounded Libyan soldiers
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Members of human rights body’s parliamentary assembly pass vote of no confidence in Spaniard Pedro Agramunt
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Speaking at tense event at Soas attended by pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters, Mark Regev says wider Arab world must be involved in talks
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Foreign secretary suggested UK could join US action in Syria without parliamentary approval
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Follow all the day’s campaign action, as Greens and Lib Dems get tactical in Brighton, and Johnson calls Labour leader ‘mutton-headed mugwump’
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The military wanted Turkey’s parliament to stay weak and divided. This vote to strengthen it will help to restore stability in the Middle East
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Iraqi paramilitary troops announced on Wednesday that they had retaken the 2,000-year-old city of Hatra from Islamic State
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Eman Ahmed’s family accuse staff in India of lying about extent of her weight loss and say she has been ‘destroyed’ by treatment
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War monitor confirms exchange of fire near the town of Darbasiyeh, a day after Ankara carried out raids that killed at least 20 fighters
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The Iranian vessel came within 1,000 meters of the USS Mahan, prompting the guided-missile destroyer to ‘deploy a flare to determine the vessel’s intentions’
Why now is the time to talk to Hamas