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Group of UN peacekeepers leave Golan post

Incident follows the kidnapping of 21 Filipino observers

An Egyptian walks past posters of Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef outside a theatre in Cairo on January 22, 2013. ©AFP Mar 7, 2013

Egyptian satirist shrugs off death threats

Barbed gags at Islamist regime earn Bassem Youssef many enemies

Mar 7, 2013

UN works to free Filipino peacekeepers

Syrian rebels detained 21 moitors on Wednesday

Mar 6, 2013

UK to train Syrian rebels

‘Technical assistance’ on offer but not weapons

Mar 6, 2013

Syrian rebels kidnap UN peacekeepers

Convoy taken near Golan Heights

Syrian refugees wait for supplies and to be assigned a tent in Mafraq, near the border with Jordan ©AP Mar 6, 2013

Total of Syrian refugees passes 1m

Neighbouring countries struggle to handle influx

Mar 6, 2013

Egyptian court suspends April elections

Setback for Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood group

Mar 6, 2013

Combat logistics must be in the vanguard

Support functions are as critical for battlefield success as weapons

Mar 6, 2013

Jordan set to commission nuclear reactors

Atomic energy spreads across Arab world as unrest hits Gulf region

A boast is seen entering the harbour in the southern city of Aden, situated at the mouth of the Red Sea ©AFP Mar 6, 2013

Sad decline of Aden’s once-thriving port

Fall of troubled coastal facility has been steep

From COMMENT Mar 5, 2013

Aleppo: the frailty of mixed cities

Centre is torn by a struggle between globalisation and sectarianism, writes Philip Mansel

From MIDDLE EASTERN FINANCE Mar 5, 2013

Libya’s pursuit of lost billions ‘in limbo’

Under-threat wealth fund head accuses ‘men in the shadows’

Mar 5, 2013

Syrian rebels seize much of Raqqa

City would be the first provincial capital to fall

From IRAN Mar 5, 2013

Women in vanguard of writing about Iran

Novelists battle censors and falling readership to get voices heard

Mar 4, 2013

UAE coup plot trial of 94 opens

Alleged Islamists plead not guilty and allege torture

Mar 4, 2013

At least 40 Syrian soldiers killed in Iraq

Ambush near border crossing hits convoy returning to Syria

Mar 4, 2013

IAEA urges access to Iran nuclear site

No progress on clarifying Tehran’s programme, says UN watchdog

From IRAN Mar 4, 2013

Iranians go nuts at pistachio prices

Call for boycott of Persian new year tradition

From COMPANIES Mar 4, 2013

Qatar and Kuwait to back Gulf web project

Gulf Bridge telecoms cabling system aims to combat cyber sabotage

Roula Khalaf from IRAQ Mar 4, 2013

Iraq’s difficult decade with democracy

Most depressing to many is sense of a creeping authoritarianism

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