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Egypt's president raises cigarette tax

Don’t classify ISIS as Islamic group: Obama aide

Al Jazeera journalists' retrial postponed in Cairo

UN envoy heads to Syria to contain fighting

Amnesty: World response to ISIS has been 'shameful'

Egypt to host Arab League summit on March

Foreign ISIS recruits using fake Syrian passports

Syrians flee besieged rebel area with tales of hunger

38 Suspected militants killed in Egypt's North Sinai

ISIS holds 262 Assyrian hostages in Syria

IOF: Hamas foiling direct trade with Gaza

ISIS burns thousands of books and rare manuscripts from Mosul's libraries

ISIS abducted 220 from Christian villages

Four French lawmakers meet Assad in Syria

HRW: Hundreds of barrel bombs dropped in civilian areas in Syria

Top Syria opposition figure Louay Hussein freed on bail

Iraqi Kurds confine thousands of Arabs in ‘security zones’

Warning issued of possible attacks on shopping malls

Libyan activist Intissar al-Hassaeri found dead in car boot

GCC backs presidential 'legitimacy' of Yemen's Hadi

Explosive barrels kill 12,000 in Syria

Yemeni activist calls on Hadi to exercise his duties from Aden