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Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas warned on Tuesday that his administration would "no longer deal" with Israel if a United Nations…

Yaasub Ali stands inside his shop in Baghdad's Shorjah market surrounded by nearly empty shelves cleared of decorations by Iraqis…

The Algerian army confirmed on Tuesday that it has killed the head of the jihadist Jund al-Khilafa group that decapitated…

Tunisia's new leader Beji Caid Essebsi said the country has turned the page on dictatorship after a presidential vote that…

Five small bombs on Tuesday hit the centre of the Yemeni capital, mostly controlled by Shiite militiamen since September, killing…

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday ratified a law finalising the electoral constituencies, his office said, paving the way…

A treaty laying down international rules for the $85 billion dollar global arms trade goes into force on Wednesday with…

Women and girls from Iraq's Yazidi religious minority forced into sexual slavery by the Islamic State jihadist group have committed…

An Italian doctor who contracted Ebola in west Africa is recovering but is still in an isolation unit, the specialist…

Nearly four years of civil war in Syria have cost its tiny neighbour Lebanon more than 20 billion dollars (16…