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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 ...

Al-Qatani was a senior al-Qaeda leader in eastern Afghanistan and one of the extremist group's senior plotters of attacks against the US. (AFP/File)

November 5th, 2016 - 10:26 GMT

Senior Al Qaeda leaders confirmed dead in Afghanistan

Germany expects to receive fewer than 300,000 migrants this year, according to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. (AFP/File)

November 5th, 2016 - 08:11 GMT

Attacks targeting refugee shelters in Germany on the rise in 2016

Turkish police officers detain former pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) parliamentarian, Sebahat Tuncel (C) on November 4, 2016 during a demonstration outside Diyarbakir's courthouse. (AFP/Ilyas Akengin)

November 5th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Protests hit Istanbul after overnight arrests of Kurdish lawmakers

Smoke rises from burning oil wells in Qayyarah, south of Mosul, on November 4, 2016, during operation by Iraqi forces to retake the main hub city from Daesh. (AFP/Ahmad Mousa)

November 5th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Iraqi forces make gains against Daesh in six districts of Mosul

Police officers and security forces stand guard outside a police training center east of Amman on November 9, 2015, where a Jordanian officer shot dead five fellow trainees. (AFP/Stringer)

November 4th, 2016 - 01:25 GMT

American trainers killed in shooting at Jordan air base

Rescue officials and people carry an injured man at the explosion site on November 4, 2016 after a strong blast in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir. (AFP/Ilyas Akengin)

November 4th, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

Car bomb rocks Diyarbakir, Turkey blames PKK

Afghan security forces inspect the site of a suicide bombing that targeted a gathering of the local tribal elders in Chaparhar district of Nangarhar province on October 31, 2016.(AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)

November 4th, 2016 - 12:00 GMT

Clashes with Taliban kill two US troops and 30 Afghan civilians

Selahattin Demirtas, co-chair of the People's Democratic Party (HDP) was detained along with 11 other legislators. (AFP/File)

November 4th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

Turkey detains Kurdish leaders of opposition parties in raids

More than 100,000 people have made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea to Greece and other European states so far this year, according to the UN refugee agency. (AFP/Argiris Mantikos)

November 4th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

In the ongoing refugee crisis, 239 drown off the coast of Libya

Israeli soldiers stand guard at the Qalandiya checkpoint, between al-Quds (Jerusalem) and the West Bank city of Ramallah, after two Palestinians were shot dead on April 27, 2016. (AFP/File)

November 4th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Another Palestinian killed by Israeli forces after alleged stabbing attack

Iraqi women take shelter with children in the village of Gogjali, as clashes go on between Iraqi army forces and Daesh to retake Mosul, on November 2, 2016. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

November 3rd, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

UN women’s center in Dohuk prepares to receive traumatized women from Mosul

ISIL is facing an operation comprising Iraqi, Kurdish Peshmerga, Turkish and coalition forces. (AFP/File)

November 3rd, 2016 - 03:00 GMT

Daesh calls on fighters to ‘turn blood into rivers’