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Afghanistan

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

Blinken reassures Afghans over US withdrawal, Taliban vows ‘pure Islamic system’

Israel

Iranian activists set to burn US and Israeli flags during a rally in Tehran, on November 28, 2020, to protest the killing of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. (AFP)

Iran-Israel ‘shadow war’ risks running out of control

Opinion

An Iranian woman walks past a wall of the former US Embassy, with an anti-America mural on it, in Tehran. (AFP)

Iran’s problems after the Natanz attack

Khairallah Khairallah

Middle East

Iran’s Navy officers line up to welcome the Chinese Navy destroyer as it makes a landfall at the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. (AFP)

US eyes tactical withdrawal from Middle East to focus on China

Iran

EU senior official Enrique Mora and Iranian senior diplomat Abbas Araghchi at the start of a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna, April 6, 2021. (AFP)

Iranians hope for ‘new chapter’ as nuclear talks to continue

Egypt

2014 file photo, then Egyptian interim Prime Minister Hazem Beblawi, right, speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (AFP)

Washington confirms immunity of former Egyptian PM

Palestinians

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (AP)

Blinken stresses Palestinians rights in call to Israeli counterpart

South Sudan

A villager carries gunny bags containing rations at the site of a food air drop from the World Food Programme (WFP) at a village in Ayod county, South Sudan. (AP)

IMF extends emergency funding to struggling South Sudan

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, visit the historical city Ad Diriyah on the outskirts of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia March 31, 2021. (REUTERS)

Mohammed bin Salman puts US pressures behind him as he pursues strategic goals