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Libya

A fighter loyal to Libya's UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) fires his machine gun, at the Salah al-Din front line. (dpa)

Tripoli sees bloody day of fighting as UN envoy lobbies for ceasefire

Saudi Arabia

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz (R) during a meeting with Lebanon’s former prime ministers Tammam Salam, Fouad Siniora and Najib Mikati (from L to R) in Jeddah. (SPA)

Saudi Arabia’s multipronged strategy to clip Iran’s wings in Arab countries

Al-Shuqaiq

In this April 28, 2018, file, photo, Houthi Shiite mourners chant slogans as they attend the funeral of Saleh al-Samad, a senior Houthi official who was killed by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on April 19, in Sanaa, Yemen. (AP)

Iran-backed Yemen rebels target Saudi desalination plant: coalition

Libya

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Khaled Al-Meshri, President of the High Council of State of Libya, shake hands before a meeting, in Istanbul, Friday, April 19, 2019. (AP)

Increasingly blatant Turkish involvement in Libya’s conflict raises questions

Libya

Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj speaks during a news conference in Tunis, Tunisia, May 22, 2019. (Reuters)

Rival Libyan leaders rule out immediate ceasefire

Stephen Quillen

UN

members of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) with a flag of the Islamic State held upside-down, outside the destroyed Al-Nuri Mosque in the Old City of Mosul, after the area was retaken from ISIS, on June 30, 2017. (AFP)

UN envoy: Islamic State revival in Iraq must be prevented

Libya

Mustafa Sanallah, chairman of Libya's National Oil corporation (NOC), speaks during the 2018 edition of the Benghazi International Forum and Exhibition of Oil & Gas, in the eastern Libyan city on October 24, 2018. (AFP)

Extremist attacks threaten oil production in Libya

Iran

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi (R) and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a meeting in Baghdad, May 8. (AFP)

Will Iraq find itself caught in the middle of a US-Iran showdown

Sana'a

In this frame grab from from video, people search in the rubble following Saudi-led coalition airstrikes that killed at least six, including children, officials said, in the residential center of the capital, Sanaa, Yemen, May 16, 2019. (AFP)

Saudi-led coalition carry out strikes against Yemen's Houthis