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Iraqi security forces gather at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad’s Bab Sharji district, March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Khalid al Mousily

ISIS Claims Central Baghdad Bombing

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 29, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

A suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt in central Baghdad on Tuesday morning, killing at least three people and wounding 27, security and medical officials said. The ultra-radical militant group ISIS claimed responsibility for the bombing in an online statement....

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Palmyra National Museaum destroyed by ISIS militants

“Pearl of the Desert”…Torn between ISIS and Assad’s Regime

by Youssef Diab | Mar 29, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

Beirut- The city of Palmyra and its historic ruins have been under ISIS’s control since May 2015. Since then, ISIS militants have destroyed part of the ruins, which are a designated UNESCO World Heritage site. On Sunday the Syrian Armed Forces confirmed that they had...

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Yemeni malnourished children stand at a therapeutic feeding centre in the capital Sanaa on January 2, 2016. According to the UN children’s agency UNICEF, more than half a million children are facing life-threatening severe malnutrition in wartorn Yemen. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED HUWAIS

Children in Yemen Suffer from Brutal War – UNICEF

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 29, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

Hundreds of thousands of children in Yemen are bearing the brunt of the year-old war that has been tearing the Arab world’s poorest country, Yemen. The spread of hunger has been the most horrific consequence of Yemen’s war with score of Yemeni children face...

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Bashar Al-Jaafari

Damascus Courts Washington over Palmyra and Deir Ez-Zor is on the Horizon

by Heba El Koudsy | Mar 29, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

The Syrian regime has started to directly court the United States, and the head of its negotiating delegation in Geneva Bashar Al-Jaafari announced that the regime “does not oppose the creation of an international coalition to fight terrorism”. He pointed out that...

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Iraqis are helping an old lady to leave Ziggurat of Ur beside Ramadi

Mass Suicide Becomes Only Solution in Fallujah

by Manaf al Obeidi | Mar 29, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

Ramadi-Suicide has become the only solution for Fallujah citizens in their fight against hunger and besiegement. They are living a humanitarian crisis as children are dying from hunger before their families’ eyes. This starvation has killed a great number of children,...

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Fire engulfs a tower at a residential cluster in the northern UAE emirate of Ajman early on March 29, 2016. The fire erupted at a building in the Ajman One residential cluster of 12 towers and spread to at least one other tower, Gulf News daily reported on its website. / AFP PHOTO / STR

Fire Hits UAE Residential Towers, Five Injuries Reported

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 29, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

Firefighters brought under control a large fire that hit at least two residential towers in Ajman in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the city civil defense said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of blazes in the country’s high-rise buildings. The fire broke out...