Middle East
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Attack on Iranian oil tanker: Who is involved?
Oct 12, 2019 15:15Political analysts say the recent attack on an Iranian oil tanker 60 miles off the Saudi port city of Jeddah on Friday is just another example of a string of suspicious attacks on commercial shipping in the Middle East region.
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Mossad chief: Assassination of Iran's Soleimani 'not impossible'
Oct 12, 2019 11:55The chief of Israel's Mossad spy agency has said the assassination of Major General Ghasem Soleimani, the head of the IRGC elite Quds Force, is "not impossible" for Israel.
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Turkey intensifies Syria offensive, 100,000 flee homes
Oct 12, 2019 07:13UN said 100,000 people have fled their homes in north Syria as Turkey intensified its air and artillery strikes in the region.
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Nasrallah, Basil review Lebanon's internal situation
Oct 11, 2019 23:53Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah and Foreign Minister Jibran Basil reviewed Lebanon's internal situation.
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Kurds report 262 Turkish soldiers dead in Syria
Oct 11, 2019 21:15The Turkish Armed Forces and their Syrian allies have lost 262 soldiers, Kurds have said.
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The US to deploy a large number of forces to Saudi Arabia
Oct 11, 2019 20:32The United States announced on Friday a new, large deployment of forces to Saudi Arabia to help bolster the kingdom’s defenses following the Sept. 14 attack on its oil facilities by Yemeni Ansarullah forces.
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Iranian oil tanker heading to the Persian Gulf
Oct 11, 2019 16:03National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) announced that the Iranian oil tanker SABITI is heading to the Persian Gulf after hit by a terrorist blast in the Red Sea.
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UN: Yemen to become poorest country if war continues to 2022
Oct 11, 2019 13:23United Nations Development Program (UNDP) published a report and declared that If the fighting continues through 2022, Yemen will rank the poorest country in the world, with 79 percent of the population living under the poverty line and 65 percent classified as extremely poor.
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Update: Iranian's hit-tanker stable, crew safe
Oct 11, 2019 10:41An Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea has been hit by two rocket on Friday, exploded at two points, but all crew members are safe.
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Iranian oil tanker hit by explosion near Jeddah in terrorist attack
Oct 11, 2019 09:17Iran's Sinopa oil tanker is said to have been hit by an explosion in a terrorist attack.
