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Iraq

A file picture shows supporters of iraq’s Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr (portrait) demonstrate in Tahrir Square in Baghdad. (AFP).

Domestic, foreign factors could boost the fortunes of Sadr in Iraq’s elections

News & Analysis

The model of an aeroplane decorates a square near Erbil’s International airport in the capital of Iraq’s autonomous northern Kurdish region on April 15, 2021. (AFP)

First-time drone attack in Erbil seen as Iranian test of US, Kurdish response

News & Analysis

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (R) greets commander of the Quds Force of the IRGC Esmail Qaani (L), Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri (C), and IRGC Chief Commander Hossein Salami, in January 2020. (AFP)

Failures of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in spotlight even as rhetoric escalates

News & Analysis

A grocery market with signs including a tribute to Hassan Nasrallah, in Beirut suburbs, April 16, 2021. REUTERS

Stockpiling fuel from Iran, Lebanese Hezbollah braces for state collapse

Jordan

A file picture shows Jordanian parliament in session. (AFP)

Did Jordan prevent MPs from getting to the bottom of the conspiracy issue?

Ahmed Fayez al-Qudwa

Maghreb

King Mohammed VI chairs caunching ceremony of project to generalise social protection at the Royal Palace of Fez. (MAP)

In ‘real revolution,’ Morocco spreads its social security net

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

The shift from hostility to competition between Egypt and Turkey

Mohamed Abul Fadhl

Iran’s problems after the Natanz attack

Khairallah Khairallah

Keep the lights on for Arab cultural capitals

Haitham El-Zobaidi

Choosing the wrong person at the wrong time

News & Analysis

EU senior official Enrique Mora and Iranian Deputy at Ministry of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi at the start of a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna, April 17, 2021. (REUTERS)

Vienna talks resume amid tensions as Iran names suspect in Natanz attack

News & Analysis

UN envoy to Libya Jan Kubis hold a news conference following a meeting on the political process in Libya in Berlin, Germany, March 18, 2021.( AFP)

UN votes to deploy cease-fire monitors in Libya

News & Analysis

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (R) and Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias at their press conference in Ankara on April 15, 2021. (AFP)

Greek FM threatens Turkish counterpart with EU sanctions

News & Analysis

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, in Kabul, April 15, 2021. (AFP)

Blinken reassures Kabul over US exit, Taliban vows 'pure Islamic system'

News & Analysis

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh review a guard of honour during a welcoming ceremony in Ankara, Turkey April 12, 2021. (REUTERS)

Dbeibeh government maintains prime role of Turkey in Libya

Maghreb

A tribesman stand in front of a Moroccan flags near the border in Guerguerat located in the Western Sahara. (AFP)

Experts back Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara

News & Analysis

Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus, Greece and Israel, and Adviser to the President of the United Arab Emirates Anwar Gargash hold a press conference in Cyprus, April 16, 2021. (AFP)

Cyprus meeting of UAE, Israel, Greece showcases ‘new narrative’

News & Analysis

A file picture shows the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Ali-Akbar Salehi meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi, in Tehran. (AP)

Iran starts enriching uranium to 60%, Biden calls it ‘unhelpful’

Lebanon

Lebanese President Michel Aoun, right, meets with US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale, center, and, US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea, left, at the presidential palace, in Baabda, April 15, 2021. (AFP)

US voices frustration as Aoun ups the ante in gas row with Israel

Lebanon

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, right, and Lebanese Prime Minister-Designate Saad Hariri enter a hall for their talks in Moscow, Russia, April 15, 2021. (AFP)

Russia supports Hariri’s efforts to form Lebanon’s government

News & Analysis

US soldiers standing next to an F-35A Lightning II stationed at the Emirati Al-Dhafra base, about 32 kilometres south of Abu Dhabi. (AFP)

US to proceed with $23 billion weapon sales to UAE

News & Analysis

An oil tanker docks at the port of Hodeidah, Yemen. (REUTERS)

Yemen government approves more ships to dock at Hodeidah port

Opinion

The shift from hostility to competition between Egypt and Turkey

Mohamed Abul Fadhl

Iran’s problems after the Natanz attack

Khairallah Khairallah

Keep the lights on for Arab cultural capitals

Haitham El-Zobaidi

Choosing the wrong person at the wrong time

Culture

Labourers walk past the Roman Marcus Aurelius arch in the Libyan capital Tripoli’s old city. (AFP)

Tripoli’s Old City gets facelift as country seeks recovery

UAE

Exhibtion poster (K-Museum.com)

Korean embroidery virtual exhibition opens in the UAE

Culture

Actress Rakeen Saad plays the role of Diana in Jordanian film “Diana”. (Facebook)

Problems of Arab women featured at Malmo film Festival

Egypt

People stand in the 3,000-year-old lost city in Luxor province, Egypt, April 10, 2021. (AFP)

Egyptologists uncover ‘lost golden city’ buried under the sand

Saudi Arabia

Italian tenor and opera singer Andrea Bocelli and his daughter Virginia sing during a concert at the Hegra World Heritage Site in the northwestern Saudi city of al-Ula on April 8, 2021. (AFP)

Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli serenades ancient Saudi city

Books

A sculpture in Saint-Luis of French general and colonial administrator Louis Faidherbe in Senegal (1818-1889)

Rethinking French imperialism in the nineteenth century