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Pictures shared on social media purport to show people running away from the mosque attack. (Al Arabiya) Edward Yeranian Last updated on: January 29, 2016 12:02 PM CAIRO—Attackers wearing suicide belts and carrying assault rifles targeted a Shi’ite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia during Friday prayer services, killing five people and wounding 18 others. It […]Load more...

VOA News Memes are making the rounds mocking Italy’s decision to cover up nude statues at Rome’s Capitoline Museum with big white boxes for a visit by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Ahead of Monday’s press conference between Premier Matteo Renzi and Rouhani, wooden panels were erected around some Roman statues in the museum. The decision […]Load more...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived in France Wednesday – the first official visit of an Iranian president there since 1999. Rouhani flew in from Italy where he closed business deals worth $18.5 billion. He is expected to do likewise in France. The visits come after the sanctions were lifted from the Islamic Republic as part […]Load more...

Heather Murdock RIYADH—At an outdoor cafe in the Saudi Arabian capital, 28-year-old Abdullah looks nervous, but says he is happy to chat with two female reporters. As we sit down at one of the empty tables, the manager comes outside and asks us to leave. Like most places in the popular dining district, it is […]Load more...

Zabihullah Ghazi JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN—The Islamic State group in Afghanistan has added new programming to its radio broadcasts that the Afghan government has failed to take off the air. The IS-run FM station “Voice of the Caliphate,” which broadcasts from a remote mobile transmitter on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, this week added Dari broadcasts to its lineup. […]Load more...

VOA News The wife of a Chinese editor who recently went missing was summoned by Chinese officials for questioning Tuesday, just hours before she was scheduled to discuss her husband’s case live on international television. He Fangmei said Friday that she last spoke to her husband, Li Xin, former opinion editor for the liberal-leaning Southern […]Load more...

Pamela Dockins BEIJING—The United States and China agreed Wednesday to work together to ensure that North Korea ends its nuclear-weapons program, but high-level talks in Beijing indicated the two sides disagree on whether and what sort of sanctions to use against Pyongyang following its underground nuclear test three weeks ago.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, […]Load more...

Jeff Seldin WASHINGTON—U.S. military forces are on the ground in Libya looking for potential partners in what could soon be an expanded campaign against the Islamic State (IS) terror group. «There have been some U.S. forces in Libya trying to establish contact with forces on the ground,» Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook told reporters Wednesday. […]Load more...

Jeff Seldin Over the waning weeks of 2015, about 500 key Islamic State (IS) officials and commanders packed up and slipped away, leaving their posts in Syria and Iraq. The move, according to a U.S. official familiar with the intelligence, was not part of any sort of retreat. Rather, it appeared to be a calculated […]Load more...

Dorian Jones ISTANBUL—U.S. Vice President Joe Biden rebuked Turkey on Friday for its crackdown on freedom of expression.Biden told civil society representatives in Istanbul that the Turkish government is not setting the right «example» with its imprisonment of journalists and investigation of academics who have criticized the government’s military campaign against Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated southeastern sector. […]Load more...