New York Times - Middle East

• newAmid Trouble With the West, Saudi Arabia Looks East
  Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is visiting Pakistan, India and China to shore up political and economic ties.
  - 12 mins ago 21 Feb 19, 5:07am -
• newAlabama Woman Who Joined ISIS Can’t Return Home, U.S. Says
  Hoda Muthana says she regrets going to Syria to join the Islamic State. But President Trump directed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to deny her re-entry.
  - 3 hours ago 21 Feb 19, 2:12am -
• new7 Children in Syrian Refugee Family Die in Fire in Canada
  The victims, who immigrated in 2017, ranged in age from 4 months to 15 years old. The cause of the early-morning blaze in Nova Scotia remains under investigation.
  - 12 hours ago 20 Feb 19, 5:24pm -
• newThe Disappeared Children of Israel
  In the state of Israel’s early years, a number of parents in immigrant transit camps were told that their babies had died. Their families believe the babies were abducted by the Israeli authorities in the 1950s, and were illegally put up for adopti…
  - 15 hours ago 20 Feb 19, 2:46pm -
• newEgypt Executes 9 Convicted of Assassinating Top Prosecutor
  Hisham Barakat died in a bombing, the first senior official killed in the country in a quarter-century. Rights groups said confessions were obtained after torture.
  - 15 hours ago 20 Feb 19, 2:32pm -

• Egypt Turns Back Veteran New York Times Reporter
  David D. Kirkpatrick was detained at Cairo airport and sent back to London in an escalation of a news media crackdown under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
  - 1 day ago 20 Feb 19, 5:12am -
• Family of Shamima Begum, ISIS Teenager, Says Britain Plans to Revoke Her Citizenship
  Ms. Begum’s family said it was “very disappointed with the Home Office’s intention to have an order made depriving Shamima of her citizenship.”
  - 1 day ago 20 Feb 19, 1:36am -
• Iran Says Suicide Bomber Who Hit Revolutionary Guards Was Pakistani
  A commander of the guards said the bomber who killed 27 members of the elite force last week was from Pakistan, as were two accomplices.
  - 1 day ago 19 Feb 19, 7:42pm -
• Poland and Israel Try to Improve Ties, but History Intrudes
  Israel’s prime minister is trying to turn strange bedfellows into staunch allies, but the past keeps creeping up to derail things.
  - 1 day ago 19 Feb 19, 7:15pm -
• The English Voice of ISIS Comes Out of the Shadows
  For years, an anonymous narrator extolled the Islamic State’s brutality in videos seen around the world. “I don’t regret it,” a Canadian captured in Syria says.
  - 1 day ago 19 Feb 19, 6:24pm -
• Saudi Crown Prince Promises $20 Billion in Investments for Pakistan
  The pledges, which are nonbinding, would also help secure the country as a market for Saudi crude oil.
  - 3 days ago 18 Feb 19, 3:12pm -
• Land Mines Block Saudi-Led Assault in Yemen, Killing Civilians
  Hundreds of thousands of land mines have stymied the Saudi-led forces in Yemen, and could pose a danger to civilians for decades to come.
  - 4 days ago 17 Feb 19, 8:00am -
• Shamima Begum, British Woman Who Joined ISIS in Syria, Wants to Come Home
  Ms. Begum, 19, who says she is nine months pregnant, faces an uncertain future, with no clear answers about whether Britain would try to prosecute her.
  - 5 days ago 15 Feb 19, 7:29pm -
• Walter B. Jones, 76, Dies; Republican Turned Against Iraq War
  A staunch war supporter, he rebranded French fries as “freedom fries,” but then opposed the war and sought to atone for his earlier support.
  - 5 days ago 15 Feb 19, 6:36pm -
• Flights at Dubai Airport Halted Over ‘Drone Activity’
  Departing flights were suspended for about half an hour on Friday morning at the airport, one of the busiest in the world.
  - 6 days ago 15 Feb 19, 8:56am -
• Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Order Forces Allies to Weigh Return of ISIS Detainees
  The American military departure may have a silver lining: a long-awaited resolution for thousands of Islamic State detainees who have been held indefinitely in Syrian camps.
  - 6 days ago 15 Feb 19, 1:03am -
• El-Sisi May Rule Egypt Until 2034 Under Parliamentary Plan
  Lawmakers approved measures that would allow the president to stay in power for an additional 12 years, enshrining the military’s dominance in politics.
  - 6 days ago 15 Feb 19, 12:47am -
• Apple and Google Urged to Dump Saudi App That Lets Men Track Women
  Both tech giants’ app stores carry Absher, which lets male “guardians” track women’s movements — or even stop them from getting on a plane.
  - 7 days ago 14 Feb 19, 6:44am -
• Germany Arrests Syrian Intelligence Officers Accused of Crimes Against Humanity
  In a joint investigation, German and French authorities arrested three former Syrian intelligence officers accused of torturing thousands of victims in detention centers in Damascus.
  - 7 days ago 14 Feb 19, 3:53am -
• Anti-Iran Message Seeps Into Trump Forum Billed as Focusing on Mideast Security
  Some American allies are anxious about mixed signals and ad hoc arrangements for the gathering — the first of Middle East states, Europe and the United States in years.
  - 7 days ago 14 Feb 19, 12:33am -