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Turkey

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar (L) and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, US Air Force General Tod Wolters, speak at a NATO meeting in Brussels, last June. (Reuters)

US-Turkey ‘safe zone’ augurs fracturing of Syria into foreign areas of influence

Iraqi

Activists rest near an old building in Baghdad.(Courtesy of Burj Babel)

Iraqi NGO leads uphill battle to preserve country’s cultural heritage

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika

A general view shows an oil installation on the outskirts of In Amenas in Algeria.(AFP)

Algeria’s oil sales soften blow but economic crisis looms

Beit al-Watan

An employee of the Egyptian Embassy checks documents of an expatriate national at the country’s embassy in Kuwait.(Reuters)

Egyptian expatriates struggle with red tape at home

Egypt

Doctors take blood samples at the Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan Hospital in Cairo. (AFP)

Medical brain drain endangers Egypt’s health care

Beit Ur Al-Fauqa

In this Feb. 5, 2019 file photo, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., left, joined at right by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., listen to President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP)

Israel bars visit by US congresswomen Tlaib and Omar

Hussein Ali

Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (C) prays during late Mogadishu's mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman's funeral on August 4, 2019 in Mogadishu, Somalia. (AFP)

Car bombs shake Somali military base, deaths reported

Libya

Grounded air-planes sit on the tarmac at Mitiga International Airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli, April 08. (AFP)

Rocket fire hits Libya airport, breaking Eid truce

Norway

Norwegian police attend the scene after a shooting inside the al-Noor Islamic center mosque in Baerum outside Oslo, August 10. (AP)

Norway mosque shooter adopted far-right views, became ‘very religious’