Category:Middle East
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This is the category for the Middle East news region. Our news regions often approximate, but do not always precisely follow, traditional regional boundaries. The Middle East is a region centered on the Arabian peninsula (itself sometimes considered a subcontinent) and overlaps parts of Africa, Asia, and a small part of Europe. Latest storiesRefresh this list to see the latest articles.
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This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 31 total.
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Pages in category "Middle East"
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- Pakistan Navy fires test missiles
- Pakistan says senior al-Qaeda official killed in shootout
- Pakistan wins Fortune Cup defeating West Indies by 3-0
- Pakistan: Eight killed in hospital blast
- Pakistan: Peshawar hit by triple bomb blasts
- Pakistani court seeks Musharraf's arrest over Bhutto murder
- Pakistani Official claims 'foreign terrorists' among civilians killed in U.S. airstrike
- Pakistani Taliban threaten revenge attack after bin Laden death; CIA says retaliation is likely
- Palestine elected as G-77's presiding country, ambassador Riyad Mansour confirms
- Palestinian Authority accepted as observer state in ICC
- Palestinian Authority bans citizens from carrying weapons
- Palestinian election ends, exit polls give Abbas lead
- Palestinian Foreign Minister: No peace with Israel
- Palestinian group claims murder of BBC reporter
- Palestinian gunmen assassinate ex-security chief
- Palestinian legislators approve new cabinet for Abbas
- Palestinian official newspapers: Israel uses super rats against Jerusalem Arabs
- Palestinian PM: Israel aims to topple government
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies at age 67
- Palestinian president Abbas has "no desire" to seek reelection
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas cuts ties with Israel
- Palestinian president pleads with UN Security Council for help in Gaza
- Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan stops hunger strike, due to be released
- Palestinian protester killed by Israeli soldiers
- Palestinian released from Israeli prison following eight-month hunger strike
- Palestinian rocket attack kills Israeli woman
- Palestinian security chief quits, says too little is being done to curb lawlessness
- Palestinian security forces clash with militants, Palestinian Interrior Minister Nasser Yousef declares state of emergency
- Palestinian state set to be abandoned, says Erekat
- Palestinian teenager killed in Israeli airstrike
- Palestinians get interim aid
- Palestinians to elect new president on January 9
- Palestinians, Israelis clash in Jerusalem over construction at Temple Mount
- Paralympic table tennis silver medalist Piotr Grudzien beats Poland's Richard Csejtey
- Passenger plane traveling to Iran crashes in Kyrgyzstan, killing 68
- Peace activist claims Iran keen to compromise on nuclear issue, Cheney, Rumsfeld allegedly block negotiations
- Peace talks: Syria's President calls upon France to intervene whilst rejecting direct talks with Israel
- Pentagon announces 2,000th U.S. military death
- Pentagon releases video of incident involving Iranian ships in Persian Gulf
- Pentagon report to Congress mentions "conditions that could lead to civil war" in Iraq
- Pentagon: Russia provided information to Iraq
- Petition calls for Trump UK ban
- PFLP leader Ahmed Saadat captured by Israeli forces
- Pickens County, South Carolina sheriff refuses to lower US flag to honor Mandela
- Pilgrims journey to Jerusalem for Good Friday
- Pilot error blamed for July crash of Aria Air Flight 1525 in Iran
- Pirate attacks bring UN aid to Somalia to a halt
- Pirates capture Saudi oil tanker
- Pirates kill four American hostages
- Plane crash in Iran kills 80
- Plane crashes in Khartoum
- Plane flying from Cyprus to Istanbul, Turkey hijacked
- Poll: Arabs discouraged by US policies, back nuclear-armed Iran
- Polling data on President Bush's approval rating indicates recent decline
- Pope invites Palestinian and Israeli presidents to mutual prayer at Vatican
- Portugal formally commits to participate in UN's force
- Portuguese troops leave for Lebanon in October
- Poverty rises as food prices increase
- Prayers on TV mandatory in Iran
- President Bush and Democrats seek compromise
- President Bush and Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdullah meet in Crawford ranch
- President Bush signs $162 billion war funding bill
- President Bush urges progress on Palestinian state
- President of Iran warns universities to stay out of politics
- Prime Minister Blair flies to Washington
- Prime Ministers of Greece and Turkey meet in Thessalonika
- Prince Harry prohibited from going to Iraq
- Prisoner exchange in Yemen ends after freeing over 800
- Pro-government forces in Iraq launch operation to reclaim Ramadi from Islamic State
- Pro-Palestinian graffiti sprayed on the wall of Israeli embassy in Denmark
- Prominent Iranian judge assassinated
- Proms performance by Israel Philharmonic Orchestra disrupted
- Protest outside Cole inquiry
- Protester killed in West Bank; world reacts to Gaza conflict
- Protesters in Israel call for resignation of Prime Minister
- Protesters mark 3rd anniversary of Iraq invasion
- Protests over housing costs sweep across Israel
- Putin pledges to help Palestinians
- Putin promises to complete Iran's nuclear reactor
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- RAF Hercules crashes north of Baghdad killing ten
- Rare Middle East cyclone batters Oman
- Recount offered for disputed Iranian election
- Red Cresent workers kidnapped as Blair visits Iraq
- Red Cross ambulances hit by Israeli strike
- Red Cross movement admits Israeli Magen David Adom
- Released video: Israeli soldier shoot bound man at short range
- Remaining US troops exit Iraq
- Renewed factional violence in Gaza; interior minister resigns
- Rep. Hunter calls for hearings about alleged "cold-blooded killings" of civilians by U.S. Marines
- Report claims UK might withdraw from Iraq as early as October
- Report says Israeli air strike targeted Syrian nuclear reactor
- Report says US military gear sold to Iran and China
- Report: 50,000 American casualties in Iraq
- Report: Annan failed to fix Oil for Food program
- Report: Members of Iranian Revolutionary Guard arrested for joining 'people's movement'
- Reports say body of missing US soldier found in Iraq
- Reports say Turkish troops enter northern Iraq
- Reports: 'streamlined' UK asylum process to replace interview with questionnaire for five nationalities
- Reports: Leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq killed
- Reports: US to label Iran's Revolutionary Guard as 'terrorist organization'
- Republican hopeful Gingrich fuels controversy over Palestinian 'invented people' remarks
- Republican Senators oppose more troops in Iraq
- Researchers discover last common ancestor of apes and monkeys
- Residents of Gaza enter Egypt after destruction of border wall
- Resolution of Inquiry into pre-Iraq war U.S.-U.K. correspondance fails by one vote
- Reuters retracts image; suspends employee due to threat
- Revenge killings follow shooting of Karachi politician
- Rhode Island District Court freezes Palestinian Authority assets in the US
- Rice and Straw arrive unannounced in Baghdad
- Rice offers to talk with Iran and Syria
- Roadside bomb in Turkey kills nine soldiers, injures two
- Robert Gates hopes to continue US troop cuts in Iraq
- Rockefeller says Iraq is draining funds
- Rocket attack on USS Ashland docked in Jordan; another rocket fired at Israeli town
- Rockets fired into Israel from Lebanon
- Rockets, mortars fired from Syria land in Israel
- Romanian government asks kidnappers to release female journalist
- Romanian oil company claims Iran has seized one of its rigs
- Romanian reporters call for release of hostages in Iraq
- Royal Navy sailing for Lebanon
- Rumsfeld memo recognizes need for 'major adjustment' in Iraq
- Rumsfeld Skips Munich Security Conference
- Russia makes first nuclear fuel shipments to Iran
- Russia negotiating missile sale with Syria
- Russia: Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant to be delayed
- Russian government homosexuality position leads to NYC Russian vodka boycott
- Russian helicopter shot down over Syria
- Russian jets carry out strikes in Syria
- Russian meeting with Hamas provokes criticism from Israel
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- Saddam Hussein 'forced' back to trial
- Saddam Hussein admits to requesting trials
- Saddam Hussein executed by hanging
- Saddam Hussein formally charged with the killing of Shia Muslims
- Saddam Hussein sentenced to death for Dujail killings
- Saddam Hussein taken to hospital
- Saddam Hussein to be hanged in 30 days
- Saddam Hussein to learn his fate in October
- Saddam Hussein's trial resumes, ex-Iraqi President formally charged
- Saddam's co-defendant decapitated while being hanged
- Saddam's co-defendants to be executed Thursday
- Sadr City suicide bomber uses fruit truck to kill 66 on market day
- Sam Brownback on running for President, gay rights, the Middle East and religion
- SARS-CoV-2 surpasses one million infections worldwide
- Saudi Arabia agrees with the US on joining the WTO
- Saudi Arabia announces 149 al-Qaeda arrests in last eight months
- Saudi Arabia announces astronaut to be nation's first female space traveler
- Saudi Arabia arrests over 100 people suspected of having links to al-Qaeda
- Saudi Arabia blocks access to Blogger, Flickr, LiveJournal
- Saudi Arabia executes 47 people as 'terrorists'
- Saudi Arabia fears Hajj swine flu outbreak as four pilgrims die
- Saudi Arabia resumes livestock trade with Somalia
- Saudi Arabia to allow women to drive
- Saudi Arabia's King Fahd admitted to hospital
- Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait recall ambassadors to Syria
- Saudi Arabia, UAE to support increasing oil production
- Saudi Arabia: Princes arrested after protesting austerity
- Saudi Arabian court convicts poet of apostasy, sentences to death
- Saudi Arabian women gain right to vote, run in elections
- Saudi military attacks Yemeni rebels
- Saudis boycott Danish dairy produce
- Saudis vote in first municipal elections in the Kingdom
- Schoolboy dies in Israel after bus hit by rocket from Gaza
- Scientists discover prehistoric cave with unknown lifeforms
- Scores killed and wounded as violence escalates in Iraq
- Scores killed in twin Baghdad marketplace attacks
- SEALs say US officer's cover-up was reported by fake SEAL
- Second Arab-Israeli bulldozer attack in July 2008
- Security Council backs ceasefire in Israel-Lebanon conflict
- Security Council sets deadline over Iran nuclear program
- Security forces open fire on anti-government protestors in Syria
- Senate panel votes 12-9 against troop increase in Iraq
- Senior al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq killed
- Series of explosions hit hotels in Amman
- Seven British soldiers face war crimes charges
- Seven die in bombing in Falluja, Iraq
- Seven million dollar Iraq bank heist leaves eight dead
- Seven Palestinians, one Israeli dead after latest Israeli offensive
- Seven sentenced to death for Jordanian suicide attacks
- Seventeen killed in Syrian car bomb blast
- Several hundred killed after stampede in Baghdad
- Sharon considered temporary Israeli coup in 1967
- Sharon to open discussion with Abbas
- Shiites protest against discrimination in Bahrain
- Shiites win dominating role in Iraq
- Shimon Peres discusses the future of Israel
- Sisi: Egypt willing to send stabilizing forces to future Palestinian State
- Six bomb attacks kill 95 in Baghdad
- Six dead, including assailants, in attack on U.S. Consulate in Istanbul
- Six die in US-Iraqi raid in Fallujah
- Six killed and hundreds injured in Bahrain
- Six killed in Sadr City bombing
- Six Power Meetings confirmed on Iran's nuclear crisis
- Six year old girl and five others killed, Hamas arrests 200 Palestinians
- Sixteen killed in Pakistan during Taliban ambush
- Sixth day of Middle East turmoil
- Soldier dies as military helicopters collide in Iraq
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