May 19, 2013
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BBC Arabic Television is a television news channel broadcast to the Middle East by the BBC. It was launched at 0956 GMT on 11 March 2008. The service was announced in October 2005 and was to start broadcasting in Autumn 2007, but was delayed.
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![UN urges swift action to prevent impending disaster in besieged Gaza Strip [BBC Arabic, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-9361000/9361090/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=579414c9e895b1a3897be2a20c5b2bd6 "A Palestinian nurse tends to a baby inside an incubator in a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip March 24, 2012: REUTERS/ Ibraheem Abu Mustafa")
![Deadly sectarian clashes escalate in Lebanon; three killed, 21 injured [BBC Arabic, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-9343000/9343582/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=2a54df217a9bdeef3d4cbf158bf31aae)
![Bahraini police attack protestors mourning slain teenager [BBC Arabic, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-9182000/9182615/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=8ae272675877023f763fab143b537afc)
![Syrian refugees fear for their country as revolt turns into proxy war [BBC Arabic, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-9094000/9094742/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=1d8dbe19fe43ae72f5a5874001a8e8e6 "Syrian refugees and local residents shout slogans against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad after performing Eid al-Fitr prayers outside their embassy in Amman, August 19, 2012: REUTERS/Ali Jarekji")
![Seventy-two killed across Syria, as Obama warns al-Assad over chemical arms [BBC Arabic, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-9073000/9073568/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=939e6a0398a46b2c13a4cde8180614c8)
![Somalia swears in new parliament [BBC Arabic, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-9014000/9014818/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=0df09dd69ac3b887e73acc102e8ac05d)
![Scores killed in clashes between Syrian Army and Free Army in Aleppo [BBC Arabic, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-8838000/8838175/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=3956f86228e2c597d4027fc7cc980c92 "A Free Syrian Army fighter walks through a hole in wall during clashes in Aleppo August 16, 2012: REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic")
![Bahrain: Activist Nabeel Rajab sentenced to three years in prison [BBC Arabic, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-8787000/8787360/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=cd53c217fb4161c48daec5274235d2c1)
![Bomb explosion leaves 18 dead in Afghanistan [BBC Arabic, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-8742000/8742460/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=fa9b6794ff6ef754e4f88ae923ca73f7)
![Syria pushes for dialogue with opposition as fighting intensifies [BBC Arabic, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-8682000/8682540/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=a9e5e3cb84e8eead88148e8c8d1d623d "A Free Syrian Army fighter aims his sniper rifle Aleppo August 14, 2012: REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic")