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Bahraini forces attack religious ceremony
Bahraini regime forces attack people commemorating Ashura in the village of Nuwaidrat.

Bahraini regime forces attack people commemorating Ashura in the village of Nuwaidrat.

Another peer has abandoned Labour benches in the House of Lords over Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the party.

Three people are killed after a female bomber blew herself up in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri.

Militants shoot dead a candidate in Egypt's parliamentary election in Sinai.

The US is a “proxy” for Israeli interests and “blindly supports” the regime’s position in the Middle East, says an analyst.

At least four people are dead and dozens injured as a car rams into a crowd at an Oklahoma State University parade.

A new study has revealed that the Tory government’s controversial tax credits cuts will leave British workers up to £12,000 poorer by 2020.

President Erdogan says Turkey will not allow Kurds to take control of northern Syria.

A federal court in the US has dropped a lawsuit against the NSA over its mass surveillance.

Syrian forces purge the militants from another village in Aleppo Province.

US Secretary of State John Kerry says Israel has agreed to provide 24-hour video coverage of all the sites in the al-Aqsa Mosque in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) to calm tensions.

Iran says it expects its food exports to Iraq to rise after the anticipated removal of economic sanctions against it.

The United States is cutting its economic aid to Palestinians in support of the Israeli regime, reports say.

Russia says its state-owned energy giant Zarubezhneft will take up several projects worth a total of $6 billion in Iran’s oil industry.

Iran condemns two terrorist attacks on mosques in northeast of Nigeria.

The Western-backed so-called FSA militants in Syria reject Russia’s offer of help against rivals Daesh.

Top US and Russian diplomats John Kerry and Sergey Lavrov discuss organizing talks between the Syrian government and opposition groups.

Iran and Russia underline the need for bilateral consultations on crises in the Middle East.