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No Saudi Aramco oil shipments to Egypt for second month

 Egypt will buy from global oil markets in November after Saudi Aramco halted deliveries for a second month, an oil ministry official said Monday. The move by the Saudi oil giant came as the two countries disagreed over Syria's conflict, with Egypt edging closer to Russia, a key backer...

Iraq peshmerga attack ISIS town as army battles in Mosul

Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces attacked an ISIS-held town northeast of Mosul Monday, trying to clear a pocket of militants outside the city while Iraqi troops wage a fierce urban war with the extremists in its eastern neighborhoods. The first waves of a 2,000-strong peshmerga force entered...

Floods kill 15 in central Vietnam

Floods have killed 15 people in central Vietnam after a week of torrential rains. Downpours across 10 provinces have submerged 41,000 houses and 12,000 hectares of farmland, the government’s Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention reported Monday. Six people are also...

Syrian militants mass in distant province after truce deals

 The men receive a hero's welcome as they step off the green buses in Syria's Idlib province with guns slung over their shoulders, having been forced to leave besieged and bombarded towns and cities as part of local truce deals with the government in Damascus. For more than two years...