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Middle East

An Israeli military armoured personnel carrier (APC) manoeuvres near a sign in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights near the Israel-Syria frontier August 3, 2020. (Reuters)

Israeli military hits Gaza, Golan Heights

Middle East

A file picture shows an Israeli army tank in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. (AFP)

Middle East tensions flare up as US military chief visits Israel

Lebnaon

Nurses work at the neonatal intensive care unit, at Family Medical Center, a private hospital facing financial difficulties, in Majdalaiya village, north Lebanon. (AP)

Lebanon’s hospitals buckling under financial pressure

Gulf

Turkish military chief of staff General Hulusi Akar salutes a guard of honour during the opening ceremony of a Turkish military base in Mogadishu, Somalia. (REUTERS)

Gulf rivalries could impact Horn of Africa’s stability

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Sudan

Sudanese women demonstrate on the occasion of International Women’s Day in the capital Khartoum on March 8, 2020. (AP)

Law criminalizing female genital mutilation welcomed in Sudan

US State Department

Defence Minister Ali Hatami (3rd-R) and Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander Hossein Salami (2nd-L) touring during an official ceremony where the ministry handed the IRGC 110 high-speed vessels, in the port city of Bandar Abbas. (AFP)

US report singles out Iran as ‘world’s worst terror sponsor’

Palestine

Protesters gather in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square to denounce Israel’s plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, on June 23. (Reuters)

Israel undeterred over annexation, Palestinians wary of impact on lives

economy

The Barclays headquarters building in London. (REUTERS)

Middle East businessmen turn to safe investments amid economic downturn

Qatar

A 2017 file picture of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, right, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Doha. (AP)

Three years on, Qatar frustrated by boycott but unwilling to mend ways