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US

File photo shows US troops from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division arrive at Green Ramp for a deployment to the Middle East in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. (AFP)

Washington pulls up stakes, reassesses challenges in Mideast

Geoffrey Aronson

Arab world

A file photo of Jihad Azour, the International Monetary Fund's Mideast and Central Asia department director. (AP)

IMF sees Middle East facing 'big drop in growth this year'

MENA

Libyan children take part in a remote learning class at their home in the Libyan capital, Tripoli on March 22. (AFP)

Out of school, Arab pupils turn to internet and TV

MENA

Energy with potential. Wind turbines at a wind farm in the southwestern Moroccan city of Tarfaya . (AFP)

Wind energy is a ‘key technology’ with benefits for MENA

MENA

A girl and a boy use a giant interactive display screen at the Qatar National Library in the capital Doha on May 19, 2019. (AFP)

Dealing with school disruptions in MENA

Middle East

A Middle East Airlines jet is parked as no planes are using the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, March 19. (AP)

Mideast airlines lose $7B as airports shut to combat virus

Saudi Arabia

Participants at a meeting of Finance ministers and central bank governors of the G20 nations in the Saudi capital Riyadh on February 23, 2020. (AFP)

Riyadh calls for virtual meeting of G20 leaders over coronavirus

Coronavirus

People crowd supermarket as they stock up on provisions in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Health Ministry officials say there are more confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Lebanon. (AP)

Middle East in lockdown mode as virus toll rises

Magreb

A Tunisian public health worker disinfects an office of an administration in Tunis, Tunisia, Friday, March, 13. (AP)

Maghreb’s economic distress deepens as virus, oil slump hit region