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Yemen’s ruling council offers truce
Yemen’s Supreme Political Council offers amnesty to armed supporters of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

Yemen’s Supreme Political Council offers amnesty to armed supporters of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

The Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs says that Israeli medical negligence has led to the death of a Palestinian prisoner.

South Sudan’s former vice president Riek Machar has called for war against the government in Juba.

Donald Trump promises Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "recognize Jerusalem" as the capital of Israel as the US president.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the country has received assurances from the US that European banks will not be punished for doing business with Iran.

The top Pakistani Taliban commander and his associates were killed in the Laman area of Afghanistan’s Paktika province.

Western powers are intentionally ignoring human rights abuses and war crimes by their own allies, says a scholar.

The Security Council meeting, called by the US, Britain and France, was aimed at discussing the escalation of fighting in the divided northwestern Syrian city of Aleppo.

The Central Ban of Iran (CBI) has for the first time introduced the country’s first credit cards that have been devised based on Murabahah Islamic financing structure.

A US military official says the USAF is renewing its arsenal of nuclear weapons to keep up with Russia and China.

A locomotive driver is injured as bomb goes off on a rail line in Turkey’s southeastern Van province.

The EU may have to delay training Libyan coastguard officers as part of a plan to curb refugee trafficking.

The Syrian parliament speaker will pay an official visit to Iran soon to hold talks with senior Iranian officials.

Israel says the barrier surrounding the besieged Gaza Strip will include a wall deep below the ground as well as well as a fence above the ground.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will attend their first head-to-head debate with identical support among voters.

Iran says Japan’s Marubeni has signed a deal to fund as much as €320 million of projects of Iran’s Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (PGPIC).

The Iranian parliament speaker says the support by world powers and some regional countries for terrorists fuels insecurity in Iraq and Syria.

Four Chadian soldiers and seven Boko Haram militants are killed in clashes across Nigeria-Chad border.