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UN urges talks on Western Sahara after cease-fire breakdown

The UN Security Council extended the UN peacekeeping mission in disputed Western Sahara for a year on Friday, expressing concern at the breakdown of the 1991 cease-fire between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front and calling for a revival of UN-led negotiations. ...

Tunisia’s president says constitution must be amended

Tunisian President Kais Saied has announced plans to form a new government and said the constitution should be amended, weeks after he sacked his premier and suspended parliament. ...

Iran backs down in standoff with UN nuclear inspectors

Iran on Sunday backed down in a standoff with the UN atomic watchdog and agreed to allow continued monitoring of its nuclear sites. ...

Hamas likely to oppose Palestinian municipal elections

The Palestinian Authority is preparing to hold municipal elections, but Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, has yet to officially respond to the authority’s request to host elections in conjunction with the West Bank. ...

US Senate delegation in Lebanon to ease crisis fears

A US congressional delegation led by Sen. Chris Murphy, chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia and Counterterrorism, met Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun on Wednesday. ...

UN allocates $10 million to ensure fuel for Lebanon hospitals

The United Nations said its humanitarian funds have allocated Lebanon $10 million to help the cash-strapped nation buy vital fuel to power hospitals and water stations. ...

Suicide attacker targets checkpoint at Libyan desert town

A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint into the Libyan town of Zella on Sunday, killing himself but causing no other casualties, a spokesman for the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), which controls that area, said. ...

Chad to halve its troops fighting Sahel militants

Chad has decided to recall half of its 1,200 troops battling militants in the tri-border area of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, a spokesperson for the Chadian authorities said. ...

Israeli strikes on Syria kill 4 pro-Iran fighters

Israeli air strikes on Syria have killed four pro-Iranian fighters allied to the Damascus regime, a Britain-based war monitor said Friday. ...

Lebanon complains to UN over Israeli airspace violations

Lebanon has filed an urgent complaint with the UN Security Council over Israel’s violations of its airspace. It said the flyovers “violated Lebanese sovereignty, endangered the safety of civil aviation and directly threatened the lives of civilian passengers, both Lebanese and foreigners.” ...

UAE senior official says Taliban statements encouraging

A senior UAE official said on Tuesday the statements of the Taliban are "encouraging", in the first comment from the Gulf country since the fall of Kabul to the Islamist movement. ...

Iran accelerates enrichment of uranium to near weapons-grade, IAEA says

Iran has accelerated its enrichment of uranium to near weapons-grade, the UN atomic watchdog said in a report on Tuesday seen by Reuters, a move raising tensions with the West as both sides seek to resume talks on reviving Tehran’s nuclear deal. ...

Islamic charities affiliated with the Yemen Islah Party empty their bank accounts and transfer them to Sheba Islamic Bank in Djibouti and banks in other countries

Informed sources revealed to AIJES , “The charities of the Islah Party, the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen, emptied their bank accounts from banks in Yemen and transfer money abroad. ...