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Dubai celebrates budding fashion talent

Budding fashion talents have been showcasing their designs in Dubai. Held in one of the world’s largest shopping malls, the Vogue Fashion Dubai

27/07/2017

United Arab Emirates

Dubai dogs get own air-conditioned park and pool

It appears a dog's life isn't so bad after all. At least in Dubai, where an indoor dog park claiming to be the world's biggest opened last April.

27/07/2017

Israel

Muslim leaders in Jerusalem call for return to prayer at Al Aqsa mosque after Israel scales back security measures

27/07/2017

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Eight people killed in Damascus airstrikes

26/07/2017

Israel

Palestinians reject new al-Aqsa security measures

Tensions remain high in Jerusalem after Israel replaced metal detectors at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City with CCTV cameras, hoping to calm days of bloodshed.

26/07/2017

Israel

Hamas is to remain on EU terror blacklist

Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas is to remain on the EU terrorism blacklist after Judges at the European court of Justice overruled a decision by the General Court in 2014

26/07/2017

Yemen

Yemen cholera epidemic shows signs of slowing

Yemen's cholera outbreak is set to hit 400,000 cases, but there are signs the three-month-old epidemic is slowing, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

26/07/2017

Syria

LGBT army unit established to take on ISIL

A special army unit including gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans fighters has been established to take on ISIL, according to a group representing foreign fighters in Syria.

26/07/2017

Israel

Palestinian leaders reject new Israeli measures at Jerusalem holy site

Thousands of Palestinians prayed outside the site on Tuesday in protest at Israel's modified security measures.

26/07/2017

Israel

Muslim boycott of mosque in Jerusalem to continue

Muslims in Jerusalem will continue the boycott of the Al Aqsa mosque despite Israel dismantling metal detectors at the entrances

25/07/2017

Syria

Russian police to monitor Syrian "safe zones"

Russia deploys military police to monitor “safe zones” in Syria.

25/07/2017

Israel

Israel to remove metal detectors from holy site

Israel has said it will remove the metal detectors it placed at the entrance to a holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City.

24/07/2017

Turkey

17 Turkish journalists go on trial accused of supporting terrorism

Demostrations take place in Istanbul as the trial of 17 employees of Turkish opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet gets underway.

24/07/2017

Jordan

Two dead in shooting at Israel's embassy in Jordan

At least one person was killed on Sunday in a shooting incident at the Israeli embassy in the Jordanian capital Amman, according to a Jordanian security source.

24/07/2017

Israel

New questions over security at Jerusalem holy site

New security cameras reportedly installed at the entrance of the Jerusalem mosque at the centre of deadly new tension between Israelis and Palestinians

23/07/2017

Turkey

Protesters detained in Turkey as part of government's widening crackdown

Turkish police detained 47 protesters in capital Ankara on Sunday (July 23) demonstrating in support of two teachers arrested for going on a hunger strike

23/07/2017

Syria

Freed from ISIL rule: Raqqa women burn their burqas

Residents of ISIL's self-described capital of Raqqa in Syria celebrated as they were released from the jihadist group's rule.

23/07/2017

Lebanon

Border offensive launched by Syrian army and Hezbollah

An all-out assault is said to be underway to drive Sunni militants from their last stronghold along the Syria-Lebanon border

23/07/2017

Israel

West Bank: Two Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli security forces

Two Palestinians have been killed in violence prompted by Israel's installation of metal detectors at entry points of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem.

23/07/2017

Egypt

Death penalty handed down by Cairo court

A Cairo criminal court has sentenced to death 28 people over the 2015 killing of Egypt's top prosecutor

22/07/2017

Israel

Brother of West Bank stabbing suspect arrested

sraeli forces have raided the home of a Palestinian accused of stabbing to death three members of an Israeli family

22/07/2017

Qatar

Qatar's emir says his country is ready for dialogue to resolve diplomatic crisis

The Emir of Qatar says his country is ready for dialogue to resolve a diplomatic crisis with a Saudi-led group, but stressed that any solution must respect national sovereignty.

22/07/2017

Israel

Six killed in violence following new Israeli security measures at Jerusalem's holiest site

Six people killed in Israeli-Palestinian violence following new Israeli security measures at Noble Sanctuary-Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's walled Old City.

22/07/2017

Israel

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to freeze contact with Israel 'on all levels'

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that the Palestinian leadership will freeze all contact with Israel, as mass protests over new Israeli security measures at the al-Aqsa compound turn deadly.

21/07/2017

Cult

Verdi rings around Amman as opera comes to Jordan

Jordan hosts first Arab opera festival

21/07/2017

Turkey

Turkey reacts angrily as Germany piles on pressure

Turkey has reacted angrily to pressure from Germany to release the six human rights activists it is continuing to hold in pre-trial detention, one of them a German national.

20/07/2017