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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 ...

Egypt has been engaged in a high-scale security operation, dubbed "Martyr's Right," against militant positions in Northern Sinai since September 2015. (AFP/File)

November 25th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Car bomb kills eight US soldiers in ongoing Sinai conflict

Israel repeatedly uses already declared state land for the sole benefit of Israeli settlers. (AFP/File)

November 25th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Israel to build road across confiscated Palestinian land

The Islamic extremist group Daesh has claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing. (AFP/File)

November 25th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Over 80 dead as blast hits Shia pilgrims in Iraq

The European Parliament voted on Thursday in favour of initiating a temporary freeze on the EU's ongoing accession talks. (AFP/File)

November 24th, 2016 - 02:00 GMT

EU lawmakers vote to freeze Turkey’s membership

Turkey in August launched an operation inside Syria dubbed "Euphrates Shield" in support of Syrian opposition fighters to push IS jihadists from its border. (AFP/Nazeer al-Khatib)

November 24th, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

Turkey accuses Syrian government of killing three of their soldiers

Reducing unemployment rates is not the responsibility of the ministry alone, citing that the number of university graduates in Jordan is on the rise and some majors do not meet the needs of labour market (Mutualresponsibility.org)

November 24th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

Shockingly high number of Jordanians dissatisfied with income

A Turkish plainclothes police office walks on the site of a bomb explosion in Diyarbakir, Turkey, May 10, 2016. (AFP/File)

November 24th, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

Two dead as car bomb rocks southern Turkey

The Israeli blockade has plunged the Gaza Strip’s more than 1.8 million Palestinians into extreme poverty and unemployment. (AFP/File)

November 24th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

World Bank: Only ten percent of Gazans have access to safe drinking water

At a debate in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday, it seemed lawmakers from most main parties would vote on Thursday to suspend accession talks with Turkey. (AFP/File)

November 24th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Turkey and E.U near breaking point on membership talks

In mid-2014, the extremist group overran vast swathes of territory in northern and western Iraq, including Mosul. (AFP/File)

November 24th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Daesh propaganda chief believed dead in Mosul, Iraq

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. (AFP/File)

November 24th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Sisi weighs in on journalists’ arrests, claiming they’re due to ‘criminal offences, not opinion’

The two male suspects, also British nationals, were arrested and questioned. The three parties were later released on bail, but their passports were retained to facilitate the investigation. (File photo)

November 23rd, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Dubai court drops extramarital sex charges against British rape victim