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Qatar

A file picture shows Qatar Airways airplane taking off from Hamad International Airport near the Qatari capital Doha. (AFP)

Qatar receives initial okay for control of own airspace

Italy

Farian Sabahi inaugurated her exhibition “Safar: Journey in the Middle East” at Spazio A in Parma. (https://cultura.gaiaitalia.com/)

Parma photo exhibition offers travel to long-gone Middle East

China

© Yasser Ahmed for The Arab Weekly

China in the Middle East

Middle East

A 14-year-old former child soldier, poses for a photograph at a camp for displaced persons where he took shelter, in Marib, Yemen. (AP)

Middle East battlefields draw hundreds of child soldiers

Saudi Arabia

Saudi army officers walk past F-15 fighter jets, GBU bombs and missiles displayed during a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the creation of the King Faisal Air Academy at King Salman airbase in Riyadh. (AP)

Saudi Arabia underlines military strength after US drawdown

Iran

A woman holds a poster of Iran’s newly-elected president Ebrahim Raisi, as supporters celebrate his victory in the capital Tehran on June 19, 2021. AFP

Israel ‘alarmed’ by Raisi’s election, mixed reactions elsewhere

US

A member of the US Air Force stands near a Patriot missile battery at the Prince Sultan air base in al-Kharj, central Saudi Arabia, February 20, 2020. REUTERS

US to cut air defence forces, missile batteries in Middle East

US

President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, arrive to meet at the ‘Villa la Grange’, June 16, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland. AP

Biden says he agreed with Putin to stop Iran from getting nuclear bomb

G7

Leaders from the US, France, Canada, Australia, Germany, South Africa, South Korea attend a working session during G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, Britain, June 12, 2021. (REUTERS)

G7 leaders vow to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb