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Palestine

Protesters burn tires during a protest at the entrance of Erez border crossing between Gaza and Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018. (AP)

Protests intensify in Gaza over blockade

Egypt

Cyprus' Energy Minister Georgios Lakkotrypis , right, with the Egyptian Oil Minister Tarek el-Molla, left, speak to the media in Nicosia, Cyprus, September 18. (AP)

Cyprus and Egypt sign Mediterranean pipeline agreement

North Africa

African immigrants wait in a row as they enter the immigrant center CETI in the Spanish enclave Ceuta, after some 200 refugees crossed the border fence between Morocco and Ceuta August 22, 2018. (Reuters)

African migrants defy Moroccan campaign to clear Spanish borders

East|West

A Syrian refugee boy stands in front of his family tent at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants next to the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, last November. (Reuters)

Europe’s solutions to migration create humanitarian crises

News & Analysis

A man poses inside a server room at an IT company, for an illustration photo. (Reuters)

Israeli spyware traces found in 45 countries

Palestine

A undated photo obtained on September 18, 2018 shows a Russian IL-20M (Ilyushin 20m) aircraft landing at an unknown location. (AFP)

Israel expresses 'sorrow' over Russian military deaths, blames Assad and Iran

Latest Issue

Issue: 173 | Sun, September 16, 2018

Top Stories

Russia gives Turkey more time to find a solution for Idlib

Doubts swirl over twin package of security, economic reforms in Tripoli

Spain backtracks on Saudi arms deal as US and UK take stand with Riyadh

Mohammed Alkhereiji

Tunisian government, civil society join forces to curb deadly road accidents

Abadi edged out of prime minister’s race but real change in Iraq remains remote

Mamoon Alabbasi

Rise of Sweden Democrats highlights normalisation of anti-migration sentiment

Mahmud el-Shafey

Opinion

To ensure survival, Iranian regime fans protest fires in Basra

Iran at war with Shakespeare and its own people

Like Sweden, Finland has its Muslim-bashing populists

Rashmee Roshan Lall

Trump and Pompeo supportive of Sisi but Congress not easing the pressure

Gregory Aftandilian

Why is the idea of Palestinian-Jordanian confederation getting a second lease on life?

Turkish media reach rock bottom with Cumhuriyet case

Basra unrest points to another Iran-Iraq showdown

Ibrahim al-Zoubeidi

Editorial

Sweden

An election official counts parliamentary ballots at a counting centre in Stockholm, on September 13. (AFP)

Lessons of the Swedish vote

Iran

Iran’s nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi. (Reuters)

Iran’s contradictions