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Syrian

A 2017 file photo shows protesters holding signs during a demonstration against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, outside a federal courthouse in Seattle. (AP)

Mideast families await lifting of US ban to reunite with children

Opinion

Houthi ballistic missiles on display during an exhibition of missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles an at undisclosed location in Yemen. (AFP)

Iran’s missile programme and US-Israeli agendas

Khairallah Khairallah

Iran

Flags flutter in the wind in front of the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria, December 16, 2020. (Reuters)

New concerns as Iran works on uranium metal for reactor fuel

Syria

A US Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) patrols near the village of Tal Alo, in the Yarubiyah district of Syria’s north-eastern Hasakah province near the M4 highway, last November. (AFP)

Biden’s options in Syria

Iran

A 1998 file picture shows a US soldier standing guard in front of the US embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the site of a bomb blast whose masterming was killed in Iran. (AFP)

Pompeo accuses Iran of being al-Qaeda’s new ‘home base’

Lebanon

Gebran Bassil, a Lebanese politician and head of the Free Patriotic movement, talks during an interview. (REUTERS)

Bassil endorses Hezbollah’s proposal of founding conference

US

A 2014 file photo shows then-Deputy Secretary of State William Burns testifying at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AFP)

Biden picks Arabic-speaking veteran diplomat to lead CIA

Middle East

Foreign Ministers of (L to R) Germany Heiko Maas, Jordan Ayman Safadi, Egypt Sameh Shoukry and France Jean-Yves Le Drian in a joint press conference after a meeting to discuss the Middle East peace process, in Cairo, on January 11, 2021.(AFP)

Egypt, Germany, France, Jordan discuss reviving Mideast talks

Libya

Libya’s GNA interior minister Fathi Bashagha speaks, Jan. 6, 2021 in Tripoli Libya. (AP)

Bashahga hopes for Biden’s support towards ‘Libya’s stability’