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The secretary general of the Arab League talks to the Arab Weekly.

Arab League chief decries Turkish and Iranian ‘recklessness’

Mohamed Abul Fadhl

Egypt

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations in New York on September 18, 2017. (AFP)

Egypt mulls prospects of relations with Israel before Netanyahu visit

Jared Kushner

A file picture shows US Presidential adviser Jared Kushner (C) on board of an El Al aircraft carrying a US-Israeli delegation to the UAE following a normalisation accord, on August 31, 2020. (AP)

Kushner starts preemptive visits to Riyadh, Doha

Iraq

Members of the Kurdish Jewish community hold Kurdish and Israeli flags during a 2017 demonstration in Jerusalem in support of the referendum on independence in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region. (AFP)

A different world for Iraqi Kurds as Arabs normalise with Israel

Palestine

A Palestinian woman stands in middle of a road during a demonstration against Jewish settlements in the village Kafr Malik in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on November 20, 2020. AFP

Palestinians suffer from isolation of their own making

Iran

A file picture shows Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani, the commander of Iran’s Qods Force, speaking in Tehran with picture of Major General Qassem Soleimani in background. (REUTERS)

Wariness about Trump’s final weeks puts Iran’s proxies on high alert

Palestine

A picture taken on November 18, 2020 shows a view of ongoing construction work at Ramat Shlomo, a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-annexed eastern sector of Jerusalem. (AFP)

Saudi Arabia rejects Israeli moves in East Jerusalem

Israel

A 2017 file picture shows an Israeli Air Force F-35 Lightning II fighter plane performing at an air show. (AFP)

Israel widens Syria strikes in concern over future US policy on Iran

Opinion

A 2019 file photo shows a reported foreign pilot whose plane was shot down by troops loyal to Libyan National Army troops, while in custody near Tripoli. (AFP )

Growing reliance on mercenaries spells more chaos in the region