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Cargo Ship in Hormuz

May 3rd, 2026 - 09:03 GMT

Osama Ali

Small boats attack cargo ship near strait of Hormuz

ALBAWABA - According to the UK Maritime Trade Operations, several small boats attacked a cargo ship near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. This has raised new security worries in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. About 11 nautical miles west of the Iranian port city of Sirik, where the event happened, the ship's captain said that several small boats were coming up behind them and aiming at ...

Hamas regularly authorizes executions without the approval of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (AFP/File)

December 15th, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

Gaza woman sentenced to death for killing husband

Main opposition Republic people's Party (CHP) member of parliament Sezgin Tanrikulu, left, gestures as politicians hold today's copy of Cumhuriyet newspaper in front of the newspaper's headquarters on October 31, 2016 in Istanbul. (AFP/Ozan Kose)

December 15th, 2016 - 12:00 GMT

HRW: Turkey launching ‘assault’ on journalism in post-coup crackdown

A wounded by sits inside an ambulance as Syrian rebels and their families gather at the rebel-held al-Amiriyah neighborhood of Aleppo as they wait to be evacuated on December 15, 2016. (AFP/Karam al-Masri)

December 15th, 2016 - 11:41 GMT

Four civilians killed as Iran-backed Shia militias mount assault on Aleppo

Rights groups have denounced Israel's shoot-to-kill policy rather than subduing Palestinian attackers. (AFP/File)

December 15th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian man after stabbing leaves two lightly wounded

In August 2013, 25 army conscripts were killed by militants near the border between Israel and Egypt. (AFP/File)

December 15th, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

Egyptian militant convicted in ‘Rafah Massacre II’ executed

A wounded Syrian woman from the al-Sukari neighborhood is helped onto the back of a truck as she flees during the ongoing government forces military operation to retake remaining rebel-held areas in Aleppo on December 14, 2016. (AFP/George Ourfalian)

December 15th, 2016 - 08:03 GMT

First convoy carrying wounded civilians leaves eastern Aleppo

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed pn December 14, 2016 in a phone call that violations of a ceasefire deal agreed for the Syrian city of Aleppo should stop, Turkish presidential sources said. (AFP/Ozan Kose)

December 15th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Erdogan, Putin agree on joint efforts to evacuate Aleppo civilians

Egyptians shout slogans as they gather outside the the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo's Abbasiya neighborhood after it was targeted by a bomb explosion on December 11, 2016. (AFP/Mohamed Muteab)

December 15th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Qatar slams attempts to link it to Egypt cathedral bombing

Most were arrested for praising the PKK on social media sites. (Shutterstock)

December 15th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Turkey arrests 23 on charges of ‘promoting terrorism’ on social media

Asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Pakistan wait for permission on the Russian side of the border, near Kuoloyarvi to cross to the Salla border crossing of Finland, on January 23, 2016. (AFP/Jussi Nukari)

December 14th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Germany to deport 50 rejected Afghan asylum seekers

Syrians leave a rebel-held area of Aleppo towards the government-held side on December 13, 2016 during an operation by Syrian government forces to retake the embattled city. (AFP/Karam al-Masri)

December 14th, 2016 - 03:00 GMT

Fighting, shelling rages again in Aleppo despite ceasefire deal

Protesters hold placards during a demonstration in solidarity with the inhabitants of the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo, outside the entrance to Downing Street, in central London on December 13, 2016. (AFP/Daniel Sorabji)

December 14th, 2016 - 02:00 GMT

Protesters in Lebanon block highway in ‘solidarity’ with Aleppo