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A Syrian refugee walks after undergoing a medical check at a Moroccan military field hospital in the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees, 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the kingdom's northern city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, on August 11, 2012. AFP PHOTO/KHALIL MAZRAAWI
Al-assad

Jordan-Syria border clashes

The Jordanian border to Syria serves as a gateway for Syrian refugees…

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Residents of Kasserine in western Tunisia blocking a road in the centre of the city with a tree during anti-government protests (AFP PHOTO / Abderrazek)
Economy

Tunisians protest lack of change since revolution

Six protesters injured in anti-government protest in Sidi Bouzid

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
Saeed Jalili, head of Iran's supreme national defence council, holds a joint press conference with Iranian ambassador to Syria Mohammad Reza Sheibani (L) at the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus on 7 August (AFP PHOTO/STR)
Arab League

Iran hosts alternative Syria conference

Iran to host a meeting to discuss the Syrian situation

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat AFP PHOTO / PEDRO UGARTE
Arafat

Experts asked to exhume Arafat’s body

Swiss experts have been asked to examine the remains of the remains…

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam

Government workers killed in Baghdad

An official within the Iraqi Interior Ministry said that gunmen armed with…

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez

Yemen Military restructuring

Yemen’s military is currently undergoing restructuring in an attempt to curb the…

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube shows damaged Syrian army tank, after they were allegedly targeted by Syrian rebels Aleppo on August 7, 2012 AFP PHOTO/YOUTUBE
Al-assad

Defected Syrian PM confirmed in Jordan

Hijab only came to power in June but defected last week

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
Shiite Muslims take part in a demonstration in solidarity with human right activists Nabeel Rajab in the village of Sitra, South of Manama, on 6 August AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH
attacks

Bahraini policemen charged with hospital violence

Authorities make some concessions to rights groups but crackdown against opposition continues

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
army

Israel targets Hezbollah operatives

Shin Bet claims that the explosives were enough to launch a “wave…

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Rebels of the Free Syrian Army arrive at the scene of a bombed building purportedly hit during Syrian army shelling which was targeting the Free Syrian Army command center, but instead hit a building in a residential neighborhood located behind, in Sheikh Najar area of the restive city of Aleppo, on 6 August AFP PHOTO/ACHILLEAS ZAVALLIS
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Three of the Iranians abducted in Syria killed

IRNA claimed the abducted are pilgrims visiting the Shi’a shrine of Sayyida…

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha