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Egyptian President Abdelfattah al-Sisi with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. (Twitter)

Sisi-Mitsotakis meeting reflects focus on Turkey’s regional policies

News & Analysis

Libyan Interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah stands atop an excavator on June 20, 2021, during a ceremony to mark the reopening of 300-kilometre road between the cities of Misrata and Sirte. (AFP)

Opening of coastal road sends a positive Libyan message before Berlin conference

Iran

A file picture of Iranian cleric and presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi. (AFP)

Ebrahim Raisi wins Iran presidency amid low voter turnout

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A file picture shows designated Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri meeting with Lebanese Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri. (Twitter)

Lebanon’s president pitted against parliament speaker over cabinet formation

News & Analysis

A file picture shows Jordanian King Abdullah II (R), Prince Hassan Bin Talal (L) and Prince Hamzah (C) arriving at the Raghadan Palace in the capital Jordan. (AFP)

Jordan’s ‘sedition case’ goes to trial as questions continue to swirl

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Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan arrives in the sultanate of Oman. (Twitter)

Saudi-Iranian dialogue transferred to Oman in second round after Baghdad

Latest Issue

Issue: 254 | Sun, April 26, 2020

Top Stories

Washington green-lights Israeli government’s move to annexation

Gulf countries seen as well-positioned to weather storm

For Muslims in Arab world, Ramadan is unlike any before

Opinion

Tunisia sheltering from the big bang

Oussama Romdhani

The Palestinian response to the Israeli stalemate

Khairallah Khairallah

How Libya ushered in the era of Kamikaze drones

The self-parody of Algeria’s leaders

News & Analysis

A file picture shows the reactor building at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran. (AFP)

Iran’s sole nuclear power plant shut down over ‘technical fault’

News & Analysis

A file picture shows Tunisian President Kais Saied (C), Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi (R) and Assembly (parliament) speaker Rached Ghannouchi (L) attending a ceremony in the capital Tunis. (AFP)

Early elections emerge as an option to end Tunisia’s political impasse

Sudan

A file picture of General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. (REUTERS)

Sudan to create new joint force to ‘crack down on insecurity’

Yemen

A file photoo shows followers of the Houthi movement carrying a mock drone during a rally held in Saada, Yemen. (REUTERS)

Saudi air defences intercept 17 Houthi armed drones

News & Analysis

A view from inside Ain al-Asad military airbase housing US and other foreign troops in the western Iraqi province of Anbar. (AFP)

New rocket attack on Iraq's Ain al-Assad air base

Lebanon

A file picture shows the head of the Free Patriotic Movement addressing supporters in Beirut. (AFP)

Bassil entrusts Nasrallah with fate of Lebanon’s Christians

News & Analysis

A Yemeni fighter backed by the Saudi-led coalition fires his weapon during clashes with Houthi rebels on the Kassara frontline near Marib, Yemen, Sunday, June 20, 2021. (AP)

Dozens killed as battle for Yemen’s Marib intensifies

News & Analysis

Saudi army officers walk past F-15 fighter jets, GBU bombs and missiles displayed during a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the creation of the King Faisal Air Academy at King Salman airbase in Riyadh. (AP)

Saudi Arabia underlines military strength after US drawdown

Syria

A file picture shows a combine harvester gathering wheat in a field in Syria’s northeastern region of Hasakeh. (AFP)

Drought puts Syria’s food production in jeopardy

News & Analysis

A file picture shows Bedouin women protesting against home demolitions in the village of Umm al-Hiran, near the southern city of Beersheba, in the Negev desert. (AFP)

Negev Bedouins sceptical Arab party will improve their lives

Majeda El-Batsh

News & Analysis

EU senior official Enrique Mora (C) speaks to journalists outside the ‘Grand Hotel Wien’ after the closed-door nuclear talks in Vienna. AFP

Europeans, US warn Iran nuclear talks won’t be open-ended

News & Analysis

Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani(R) receives a copy of the credentials of the new Saudi envoy to Doha on June 21, 2021. (QUNA / AFP)

Qatar receives new Saudi envoy as Doha, Riyadh rebuild ties

Opinion

Tunisia sheltering from the big bang

Oussama Romdhani

The Palestinian response to the Israeli stalemate

Khairallah Khairallah

How Libya ushered in the era of Kamikaze drones

The self-parody of Algeria’s leaders

Sports

Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur celebrates with the trophy after winning her final match against Russia’s Daria Kasatkina in Birmingham , June 20, 2021. (AFP)

Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur becomes first Arab woman to win WTA title

Egypt

Technicians craft replicas of ancient Egyptian statues and sarcophagi at the Egyptian government’s Konouz (Treasures) factory. (AFP)

Egypt souvenir merchants adjust to struggling tourism market

Culture

A visitor talks to Libyan artist Elham el-Ferjani in front of one of her works at the Hamim Gallery in the eastern city of Benghazi on June 14, 2021. (AFP)

Benghazi rare cultural week welcomed as ‘source of joy’

Culture

Turkish musician Ozge Metin (L) sings to a dancing crowd in an Istanbul public square on June 9, 2021. (AFP)

Turkish musicians see Erdogan’s ‘culture war’, not pandemic, behind ban

Egypt

“Tablitt Al-Sitt” band during performance. (TAW)

Egyptian band shows women are no strangers to percussion music

UAE

An artwork by Sheikha Khawla bint Ahmed Khalifa Al Suwaidi,. (WAM)

UAE-based foundation explores art of colour calligraphy