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May 17th, 2026 - 06:29 GMT

Sally Shakkour

USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier finishes 326-day mission

ALBAWABA - The Pentagon announced that the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, sent to the Middle East ahead of the war with Iran, returned home to the United States on Saturday. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth received the largest aircraft carrier in the world in Norfolk, Virginia, upon its arrival after a 326-day deployment in the Middle East, the US military said on X. The Pentagon wrote, "Over 4,500 warriors ...

A resident of the Tariq al-Bab neighborhood of Aleppo, inspects the damage caused by reported air raids that targeted rebel-held areas in the northern city on August 16, 2016. (AFP/Thaer Mohammed)

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Russia signs on to 48-hour ceasefire in Aleppo

Iraqi security forces gather at the site of a suicide bombing in the Shaab area in northern Baghdad on May 17, 2016. (AFP/Getty/File)

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Bombings in Baghdad kill at least five

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MSF evacuating staff from Yemen after another hospital targeted

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August 19th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

South Sudan’s former vice-president goes into exile

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August 19th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

UN halts humanitarian task force in Syria

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August 18th, 2016 - 03:00 GMT

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August 18th, 2016 - 02:00 GMT

Amnesty International estimates 18,000 killed in Syrian prisons since 2011

This file photo taken on April 30, 2016 shows Jowan Ibrahim (C), the commander of the Kurdish police (aka Asayish) arriving at a checkpoint where a suicide bomber killed five Kurdish policemen in Syria's divided northeastern city of Qamishli. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

August 18th, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

Opposition forces retake Syrian border town of Cobanbey from Daesh

Palestinian children look through a window at Israeli soldiers conducting searches in the Palestinian al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Hebron. (AFP/File)

August 18th, 2016 - 12:51 GMT

Palestinian children look through a window at Israeli soldiers conducting searches in the Palestinian al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Hebron.