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Arab

Democratic US congressional candidate Rashida Tlaib points to her “I voted” sticker after voting during the midterm election in Detroit, on November 6. (Reuters)

Arab-American candidates score big

Egypt military

A file picture shows smoke billowing as an apache helicopter manoeuvres during Arab military exercises in Hafr al-Batin in Saudi Arabia. (AFP)

Egypt hosts unprecedented exercises for Arab militaries

ISIS

A general view of the entrance to Minya city, on November 3. (Reuters)

ISIS militants had many motives for attack on Christians in Minya

Gulf

A poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad, half-covered by a national flag, hangs at the border crossing point of Jdedeh Yabous, Syria, last August. (AP)

Iran spectre, reconstruction cost could boost GCC role in Syria

US

A file picture shows Israel’s Deputy Cabinet Minister for Public Diplomacy Michael Oren. (AFP)

Israel bets on both Democrats, Republicans after US elections

Mamoon Alabbasi

Jamal Khashoggi

Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos talks during a ceremony in Washington, last January. (AP)

Saudis boycott Amazon over Khashoggi case

China

A container is loaded on to the Cosco Wellington, the first container ship to depart after the inauguration of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor port in Gwadar, on November 13. (Reuters)

As China and Pakistan deepen economic cooperation, what’s the effect on the Gulf?

Iraq

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi addresses the Iraqi parliament during the vote on the new government, on October 24. (AFP)

Iraqi prime minister tested by early balancing acts

Turkey

The calm before the storm. A Turkey-backed Syrian fighter sits at the newly renamed “Salah Aldin Alaiobi” circle in the north-western Syrian city of Afrin, on October 9. (AFP)

Amid shelling of Kurdish positions, Turkey plans new incursion into Syria