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Iranian hackers accidentally leak hack-training videos

Iranian hackers accidentally leaked videos showing themselves teaching junior hackers how to break into email accounts and siphon data from them, it has been revealed. ...

Minister: Iraq to face severe water shortages as river flows drop

Iraq’s minister of water resources says his country will face severe water shortages if agreements are not forged with neighboring Turkey over Ankara’s irrigation and dam projects that have decreased river inflows to Iraq’s parched plains. ...

US, Gulf states impose sanctions on Daesh financiers in Turkey, Afghanistan

The United States and the Gulf Arab states have imposed sanctions on six targets they believe are associated with the terror group Daesh and its financing, the US announced yesterday. ...

Lebanon: Protesters launch the ‘National Civil Front’ in efforts to continue revolution

A coalition of Lebanese protesters, including activists, academics and lawyers, have joined forces to create the “National Civil Front” in hopes of pushing forward the aspirations of the 17 October uprising. ...

Iran executes man convicted of selling missile information to CIA

Iran says it has executed a former defence ministry employee convicted of selling information to the US. ...

"despite US sanctions": Iran want to develop oil industry

Iran is determined to develop its oil industry in spite of US sanctions imposed on the country, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said in a televised speech on Saturday. ...

Negotiations between Lebanon government and IMF suspended

Negotiations between representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Lebanese government have been suspended in the middle of the worst economic crisis that the country has endured. Tens of thousands of Lebanese citizens have lost their jobs amid a severe collapse of the economy. ...

UN: 700 people died recently in Syria camps holding Daesh families

The United Nations has revealed that 700 people have recently died in two camps in north-east Syria, in which around 70,000 family members of Daesh fighters are currently being detained. ...

Turkey fireworks: Army removal hit by second deadly blast

Three Turkish soldiers have died in the explosion of an army truck while removing explosives from a fireworks factory that blew up last week. ...

Syria condemned at toxic arms watchdog over sarin attacks

Member countries of the global chemical weapons watchdog voted overwhelmingly Thursday to take action on a probe that explicitly blamed Syria for nerve gas attacks for the first time, diplomats said. ...

UN chief warns foreign interference in Libya conflict at 'unprecedented levels'

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Security Council on Wednesday that the conflict in Libya has entered a new phase “with foreign interference reaching unprecedented levels,” Reuters reports. ...

Lebanon jails Sunni scholar for life over alleged Daesh affiliation

A Lebanese court sentenced a Sunni scholar to life and hard labour after finding him guilty of being affiliated with Daesh, local media outlets reported. ...

Iraq security expert shot 20 times in Baghdad

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi yesterday pledged to bring the assassins of a leading political and security expert to justice, after Hisham Al-Hashim was shot to death by unknown gunmen who fled on a motorbike, outside his home in Baghdad’s Ziyouna district last night. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Al-Hashimi was hit by more than 20 bullets according to sources. ...