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Jordan

A view of Ramon Airport just outside the southern Red Sea resort city of Eilat, Israel, on January 21. (Reuters)

Jordan protests ‘violations’ of new Israeli airport

General Ali Ghediri

In this file photo from March 2018, former Algerian Prime Minister Ali Benflis talks to the Associated Press in Algiers. Benflis has announced on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019 that he will run for president in next year’s election. (AP)

General’s candidacy unsettles Bouteflika’s plans

Palestinian

A file photo shows Israeli Minister for Social Equality Gila Gamliel (R) in Jerusalem. (AFP)

Arab states unlikely to pay Israel for loss of Jewish assets

tunisia

Not only victims. Tunisian forensics inspect the site of an attack by a woman suicide bomber in Tunis, last October. (AFP)

Tunisians brace for threat of female jihadists

Libya

Spraying bullets. Militia fighters shoot at enemy positions during clashes in southern Tripoli. (AP)

Flashpoints, north and south, ratchet up Libya tensions

Morocco

A sense of frustration. A Moroccan man protests against social injustice in Rabat. (AFP)

Morocco’s local government employees stage nationwide strike

Turkey

Turkish young women look on as veiled women pass by in front of a fast-food restaurant at Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue. (AFP)

After 16 years of Erdogan rule, Turks are less religious

Lebanon

Frozen camps. Syrian refugee children stand near tents at a makeshift camp at the Lebanese border town of Arsal, Lebanon, January 9. (Reuters)

Storms put fate of Syrian refugees in Lebanon on the line

Tunis

One way or another. UGTT Secretary-General Noureddine Taboubi (R) speaks to the crowd during a nationwide strike in Tunis, January 17. (Reuters)

Public service strike paralyses Tunisia, new walk out announced