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US forces return to Baghdad
Iraqis in the capital Baghdad said US army forces have been walking around the city accompanied by the Iraqi army, Al-Khaleej Online reported. ...
UN envoy to Middle East arrives in Gaza
UN envoy to the Middle East Nikolay Mladenov on Friday arrived in the Gaza Strip following the arrival of a delegation of senior Egyptian officials who had entered the enclave on Thursday to discuss ways to implement the understandings reached between Israel and Hamas as well as to ensure this weekend's "March of Return" protests are restrained. ...
North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa
President Trump, to meet in late February with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in a second attempt at ridding the dictatorship of nuclear weapons, maintains he is making historical progress and North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat to the U.S. Yet, earlier this week America’s top intelligence official, Dan Coats, rebutted that view. In a congressional hearing, Coats said North Korea wouldn’t completely give up nuclear weapons because its leaders view them as “critical to regime survival.” ...
Egypt’s Sisi approves establishment of Russia industrial zone
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday issued a presidential decree approving the establishment and operation of a Russian industrial zone in the Suez Canal Economic Zone, local media reported. ...
Iraq backs Syria’s return to Arab League
Iraq supports restoring Syria’s membership to the Arab League, the country’s foreign minister, Mohamed Al-Hakim, said yesterday. ...
Utah National Guard soldiers returning from Middle East
About 100 Utah Army National Guard soldiers are returning home following a deployment to the Middle East. ...
UK condemns Israel settlers’ killing of Palestinian in West Bank
Minister of State for the Middle East Alistair Burt yesterday condemned a settler attack which left a Palestinian killed in the occupied West Bank. ...
Syria: Turkey must pull troops to revive historic security pact
Syria said on Saturday it was ready to revive a landmark security deal with Turkey that normalised ties for two decades before the 2011 conflict if Ankara pulled its troops out of the war-torn country and stopped backing rebels, according to a Reuters report. ...
Bomb attacks kill four policemen in northern Iraq
At least four policemen were killed and 11 wounded by two roadside bombs that targeted police convoys in separate attacks in northern Iraq on Sunday, the service and medical sources said. ...
US House approves new sanctions on Syria supporters
The US House of Representatives yesterday unanimously adopted a bill allowing President Donald Trump to impose new sanctions on supporters of Syria’s energy, airspace and business sectors. ...
Pompeo/Bolton try to take control from Trump of Middle East policy
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo concluded his 8-day tour of the Middle East mid-January. He visited Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman. ...
UN warns of new war in southern Libya
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has warned of an impending conflict in southern Libya amid military incursions and statements by opposing parties. ...
Syria war: Israeli jets target Iranian positions around Damascus
Israel says it has hit Iranian targets around the Syrian capital, Damascus. The Israel Defense Forces say the overnight operation targeted the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, as well as Syrian air defences. ...
Reports: Bomb explodes on southern edge of Damascus
A bomb exploded near a highway at the southern edge of Syria’s capital Damascus on Sunday morning, state media reported. ...
UAE said to lend $300m to crisis-hit Sudan
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. ...
Syria refugees burn clothes for heating
Syrian refugees are being forced to burn their clothes as a source of heating, as the cold weather snap continues to leave them in dire living conditions. ...
France will stay 'militarily engaged' in Middle East in 2019: Macron
France will remain "militarily engaged" in the Middle East through 2019 despite the announced US withdrawal from the coalition fighting Islamic State jihadists in Syria, President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday. ...
Blast claimed by Daesh kills US troops in Syria
A bomb attack claimed by Daesh killed two US troops and two civilians working for the US military in northern Syria on Wednesday, weeks after President Donald Trump said the group had been defeated there and that he would pull out all American forces. ...
An ideological struggle will shape Islamism in the Middle East
This year may see the resolution of the Middle East’s civil wars. Eight years on, the violent after-effects of the 2011 uprisings in the Arab world still wreak havoc on the populations of Yemen, Syria and Libya. These countries have, inevitably, become arenas where regional powers pursue their respective interests but an end may be in sight — at least in Yemen and Syria. ...
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