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smoking

Palestinian vendors sell cigarettes at a shop in Gaza City. (AFP)

The costly failure to cut smoking in the Arab world

Oussama Romdhani

tunisia

Vehicles wait near the Tunisian customs post at the Ras Jedir border crossing with Libya, south of of Ben Guerdane. (AFP)

Free trade zone to be established on Tunisian-Libyan border

US

A couple look towards signs displaying distances to various cities at an observation post in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, January 21. (Reuters)

Trump puts the Golan Heights in play

Geoffrey Aronson

Syria

Time to repay. Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad (R) meets the Iranian Commander of the Quds Force General Qassem Suleimani in Tehran, February 25. (SANA)

Iran’s mullahs see economic future in Syria

US

US President Donald Trump talks with reporters outside the White House in Washington, March 8. (AP)

Trump’s budget priorities for the Middle East belie its claims

Gregory Aftandilian

Baghouz

Uncertain future. Civilians evacuated from the ISIS holdout of Baghouz wait at a screening area in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor, March 5. (AFP)

After Baghouz, what do you do with ISIS families?

Rashmee Roshan Lall

Algeria

Kingmaker? Algerian Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Ahmed Gaid Salah presides over a military parade in Algiers, last July. (AP)

Growing role of Algerian and Sudanese militaries in politics

Mohamed Aboelfadl

Yaser Ahmed

Algerian regime’s bid to stay in power

Iran

Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi walks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a welcome ceremony in Baghdad, on March 11. (Reuters)

Iran refuses to recognise new situation in Iraq

Khairallah Khairallah