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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 ...

A man cleans the blood of prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar after he was shot dead outside a court in Amman on Sept. 25, 2016, where he was facing charges for sharing a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam. (AFP/Ahmad Alalameen)

September 25th, 2016 - 10:39 GMT

Update: Jordanian writer’s killer shot Hattar because of Facebook post

Afghan army soldiers are seen during an operation in Afghanistan. (AFP/File)

September 25th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

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Egyptian riot police are seen on patrol in Cairo. (AFP/File)

September 25th, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

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A member of the Iraqi government forces looks at a burnt-out vehicle as they secure the town of Sharqat, around 50 miles south of Mosul, on September 23, 2016, the day after recapturing city from Daesh. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)

September 25th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Bloodshed in Iraq continues as militants kill 12 in Tikrit bomb attack

Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar was assassinated in Amman on Sept. 25, 2016. (Twitter)

September 25th, 2016 - 07:34 GMT

Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar assassinated outside supreme court

Riot police disperse migrants and refugees trying to get into trucks heading to Great Britain, on September 21, 2016 in Calais. (AFP/Philippe Huguen)

September 25th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

'No camp in France': Hollande urges closing of Calais 'Jungle'

A Palestinian girl stands outside an Israeli jail. (AFP/File)

September 25th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

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September 25th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Israel releases hunger striker al-Qadi to Palestinian hospital

A Yemeni man sits on the rubble as people search for suvivors in houses destroyed by airstrikes. (AFP/File)

September 25th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Number of civilian casualties in Yemen skyrockets in the past month

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires a weapon inside a damaged building during clashes with forces from the Syrian regime. (AFP/File)

September 24th, 2016 - 09:50 GMT

Syria’s rebel-held Handarat camp near Aleppo captured by regime forces

Members of the Palestinian Fatah movement and Lebanese army soldiers watch as an ambulance evacuates the wounded from Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon during clashes on August 25, 2015. (AFP/File)

September 24th, 2016 - 09:41 GMT

Daesh supporters in Ain el Hilweh jump ship to Nusra: Lebanon

Politicians attend a meeting of the African Union's (AU) economic development program New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). (AFP/File)

September 24th, 2016 - 07:54 GMT

Morocco requests African Union to take them back after quitting the bloc 30 years ago