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Gulf Tension

Iran, UK trade warnings against escalation

Gulf Tension

Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is seen outside Downing Street in London

Iran, UK trade warnings against escalation

Sudan Transition

Opposition alliance coalition’s leader Ahmad al-Rabiah and Deputy Head of Sudanese Transitional Military Council Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo

Little progress on Sudan power-sharing talks

Hassan Abdel Zaher

Iran - Israel

Israel's Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi

Israel boasts it is only country 'killing Iranians'

Tunisia Elections

Rached Ghannouchi, head of the Ennahda party

Ennahda leader to stand for parliamentary elections

Nubian Rights

Nubian men talk at a home in Wadi Karkar in the desert west of Lake Nasser

Egypt’s Nubians hold on to ‘right of return’

Turkey - Cyprus

Turkish Navy warship patroling next to Turkey's drilling ship "Fatih" dispatched towards the eastern Mediterranean near Cyprus

High stakes in gas dispute between Cyprus, Turkey

US - Turkey

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar (L) and Supreme Allied Commander Europe US Air Force General Tod Wolters

Expulsion from F-35 programme shows Turkey's miscalculation

Turkey - Kurds

27-year-old Mazloum Dag, suspect in deadly shooting of Turkish diplomat

Iraqi Kurds arrest suspected shooter of Turkish diplomat

Strait of Hormuz

The Stena Impero, a British-flagged tanker

Iran seizes UK tanker as London warns of 'dangerous path'

Art

Iraqi group spreads tolerance and peace through art

Art

Visitors at Beit Tarkeeb in Baghdad’s Karrada neighbourhood.

Iraqi group spreads tolerance and peace through art

Africa Cup of Nations

Algeria supporters celebrate on the Champs-Elysees in Paris

Algeria claims second African football crown in Cairo

Green Zone

Kabul residents are often trapped in their cars as helicopters travelling in and out of the Green Zone whir overhead

Kabul’s barricades raised as Baghdad’s fall

African Cup of Nations

Others have pointed out that the overwhelming majority of fans marked Algeria's last two victories in the Africa Cup peacefully

Paris ups security for Algerian football fans

Lebanon's polluted beaches

eople swim at Ramlet al-Bayda public beach near a sewage outlet in Beirut

Polluted beaches pose threat to Lebanon’s tourism

African Cup of Nations

During the semi-finals, wounds were pricked again after Algerians and Egyptians traded a war of words and shoved each other

Egypt torn over supporting Algeria in cup final

Assilah Moussem

Mustapha Bel Harradia Sereghini is one of the skilled traditional shoemakers in Assilah

Sereghini preserves forefathers’ traditional shoemaking in Assilah

Kuwait - Iran

Hassan Abdullah Zachriaa, a Kuwaiti of Iranian origin and owner of the Al-Walimah restaurant, shares Iranian bread - known as taftoon - during a meal with a friend in Kuwait City

Iranian bread remains a staple in Kuwait

Turkey Purge

Described by the government as a "terrorist organisation", the slightest whiff of association with Gulen has destroyed lives

Turkey’s Gulen purge victims struggle three years on

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