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Iran

Oil tanker Mercer Street is seen off the coast of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, August 4, 2021. (Maxar Technologies)

Suspected Iran-backed forces copy tactics of Somali pirates

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud speaks during a joint press conference with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi at the foreign ministry in Islamabad on July 27, 2021. AFP

Saudi Arabia deplores ‘negative activity’ of Iran in the region

US

Senator Bob Menendez talks with Zalmay Khalilzad (R), special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation at the State Department, after a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, last April. (AFP)

US lawmakers debate repealing Saddam-era war measures

Libya

Di Maio meets with Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. Twitter

Italy leads European effort to resolve Libyan differences

Turkey

Migrants walk along the hardshoulder of a highway in the eastern Lake Van region of Turkey. AFP

Turkey uses Afghan resettlement as bargaining chip with US

Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi

An Egyptian man sells bread outside the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo. AFP

Sisi could test Egyptians’ patience, own popularity with bread price hike

tunisia

A file picture of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaking in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, July 20, 2021. (AFP)

Erdogan’s call to Saied triggers pushback among Tunisian public

Libya

A file picture of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar with LNA soldiers. Facebook

Saif al-Islam’s candidacy could worry Haftar, split LNA ranks

Yemen

A file picture shows Ann Linde, minister of foreign affairs of Sweden (C), meeting then-UN special envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths (L) and then-EU Ambassador to Yemen Hans Grundberg in Amman, February 26, 2020. TWITTER

Swedish diplomat to be named new UN envoy for Yemen