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Libya

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) shakes hands with Libya's Foreign Affairs Minister Mohamed Taher Siala at the State Department in Washington, November 14. (AFP)

Sarraj's camp pins hope on US, French support to curb LNA's offensive

Algeria

Demonstrators march during a protest against the country's ruling elite and rejecting the December presidential election in Algiers, Algeria November 15. (Reuters)

Algerians flood streets to oppose December polls

Opinion

A group of U.S. soldiers board fighting vehicles at a US military base at undisclosed location in Northeastern Syria, Monday, November 11. (AP)

Confusion marks US role in north-eastern Syria

Gregory Aftandilian

UAE

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, attend a welcome ceremony in the Emirati capital's Al-Watan presidential palace on November 14. (AFP)

UAE, Egypt set up joint investment programme

Iraq

Anti-government protesters try to sneak past as security forces close the bridge leading to the Green Zone during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, October 26. (AP)

Iran-backed militias accused of violently quashing Iraq's protest

Azhar Al-Rubaie

Turkey

A Turkish Petroleum (TPAO) engineer poses on the helipad of Turkish drilling vessel Yavuz in the eastern Mediterranean off Cyprus, August 6. (Reuters)

Despite EU warnings, Turkey starts operations off NE Cyprus

Latest Issue

Issue: 230 | Sun, November 10, 2019

Top Stories

Iran seeks to pressure Europe through ‘nuclear extortion’

In Kuwait, too, resentment of corruption sparks protests

Women of Lebanon stand at vanguard of popular protests

Doubts surround efforts towards holding Palestinian general elections

New hope for settling Egypt-Ethiopia Nile dispute after Washington talks

As it announces Aramco IPO, Riyadh forges on with 2030 reform track

Mohammed Alkhereiji

Opinion

Ghannouchi’s short-term victory could spell long-term trouble

30 years after Berlin, walls are obstructing hope in the Arab world

Oussama Romdhani

Sectarianism does not appeal to new generation of Lebanese

Khairallah Khairallah

Arab spring, summer, autumn, winter… worldwide

Rashmee Roshan Lall

Who will help Palestinian refugees if UNRWA falls?

Trump and Erdogan: An odd couple glued together by calculations

40 years after hostage crisis, US and Iran remain staunch enemies

Gregory Aftandilian

Editorial

Iran

Iranian protesters attend an anti U.S. demonstration, marking the 40th anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover, near the old US embassy in Tehran, Iran, November 4. (Reuters)

More of the same from Iran, 40 years on

ISIS

An image from video released by the US Department of Defence shows the view from a remotely piloted aircraft of the effects of precision munitions destroying the compound of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria, October 26. (US Department of Defence via AP)

ISIS remains a threat despite killing of Baghdadi

Palestine

A ball of fire is seen following an Israel airstrike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip early on November 15. (AFP)

Israel strikes Islamic Jihad targets in Gaza despite ceasefire

East|West

Dangerous gulf. US President Donald Trump meets with Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan at the White House in Washington, November 13. (Reuters)

Trump, Erdogan fail to overcome differences over Syria

Lebanon

Lebanon's then-Minister of Economy and Trade, Mohammad Safadi, speaks during the Reuters Middle East Investment Summit in Beirut, October 20. (Reuters)

Three Lebanese parties agree on nominating Mohammed Safadi for prime minister

Qatar

People walk at Katara Cultural Village in Doha, Qatar, October 19, 2019. (AFP)

UN experts say Qatar is over-using jails

Mauritania

Mauritania's Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed attends the first joint European Union and Arab League summit at the International Congress Centre in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, on February 24. (AFP)

Mauritania says 'time has come' for a solution to Western Sahara conflict

Kuwait

This Dec. 16, 2012, file photo shows a general view of Kuwait's National Assembly during the inauguration of the 14th Legislative Term of the National Assembly in Kuwait. (AP)

Kuwaiti government submits resignation

Turkey

People walk past Syrian restaurants in the Istanbul neighborhood of Aksaray, where many Syrians live, August 20. (AP)

Turkey removed more than 6,000 Syrians from Istanbul

Interview

Years of investigation. Christian Chesnot, investigative journalist at French radio channel France Inter. (Courtesy of Christian Chesnot)

Former hostage Christian Chesnot sheds light on Qatar's influence networks, old and new

Syria

Puppeteer Walid Abu Rashed performs for children amid rubble of damaged buildings in the north-western Syrian town of Saraqib in Idlib province. (AFP)

Syrian puppeteer offers Idlib children breathing space

Algeria

A file photo taken on January 18, 2013 shows a general view of an oil installation on the outskirts of In Amenas, deep in the Sahara near Algeria's border with Libya. (AFP)

Algeria adopts controversial energy law

Egypt

Egyptian soldiers walk in front of a newly-constructed combined-cycle power stations on the outskirts of Cairo. (AFP)

Egypt to list army companies in stock exchange

Special correspondent

UAE

United Arab Emirates astronaut Hazzaa al-Mansoori being carried shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-12 space capsule about 150 km (90 miles) south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan on October 3, 2019. (AFP)

UAE's first astronaut urges climate protection on Earth

Sudan

Creeping desert sands surround the Royal Cemeteries of Meroe Pyramids in Begrawiya at River Nile State, Sudan November 10, 2019. (Reuters)

Sudan looks to pyramids to attract tourism - and hard currency

Culture

Egyptian actor Khaled El Nabawi performs in “Kingdoms of Fire.” (Courtesy of Mohamed Suleiman Abdel Malek)

TV drama challenges historical narrative of Ottoman conquest in the Arab world

Culture

Iraqi cartoonist takes a jab at corruption, political power

Wared Badr al-Salem

Culture

A view from the entrance of Khayamiya Street leading up to Bab Zuweila, one of the surviving main gates of Cairo’s Old City. (AFP)

Egypt’s khayamiya handicraft legacy surviving against all odds

Marwa al-A’sar

Culture

Tunisian actress Hend Sabry celebrates after receiving the Best Actress Tanit during the closing ceremony of the Carthage Film Festival, November 2. (AFP)

Nejib Ayed’s legacy lives on at Carthage Film Festival

Syria

A Turkey-backed Syrian fighter looks on from a fortified position near the village of Awshariyah overlooking the Euphrates river, south of Jarabulus in the northern part of Aleppo province, on October 26, 2019. (AFP)

Welcome to east of Euphrates where US troops are isolated and friendless

Geoffrey Aronson