Middle East

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Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria, has said that a deal that allowed some civilians to leave Homs has broken down.

Read more: Homs civilians in danger as deal breaks down

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A Palestinian citizen of Israel who was detained last week for traveling to Lebanon has been released from jail, but remains under house arrest and could face prison time for visiting "an enemy state".

Read more: #Israel frees jailed Palestinian journalist

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Syrian armed forces have made advances around the Old City of Homs, where some 1,200 rebels are dug in and under regime siege.

Read more: #Syria army advances in besieged Homs

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Gulf foreign ministers have agreed to a deal to end months of unprecedented tension between Qatar and other members of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council over the Muslim Brotherhood.

Read more: Gulf states agree deal to end Qatar tensions

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At least 10 soldiers have been killed and 12 others were wounded in an attack on a military base in a restive area of northern Iraq.

Read more: Iraqi soldiers killed in attack on army base

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The Syrian government has been accused of new attacks on civilians with improvised chlorine gas bombs, in the latest reports of chemical weapons use in the Syrian war.

Read more: Syrian regime accused of chlorine gas attacks

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Iran has converted most of a nuclear stockpile, which it could have turned quickly into weapons-grade uranium, into less volatile forms as part of a deal with six world powers, the UN atomic agency has reported.

Read more: #Iran cuts sensitive nuclear stockpile

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At least 18 people, including two soldiers, have been killed in separate attacks in Iraq's volatile western province of Anbar, medical and security officials have said, in a surge in violence before parliamentary elections.

Read more: Violence surges in Iraq's Anbar province

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Kuwait's prime minister has told legislators that a videotape allegedly showing former senior officials plotting a coup was "tampered with", stirring more controversy in the Gulf Arab state.

Read more: #Kuwait says coup-plot clip 'tampered with'

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Three Palestinian fighters have been killed after a series of explosions near the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, witnesses and officials said.

Read more: Three #Hamas members killed in #Gaza blasts