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Lebanon

Violent drift. A Lebanese anti-government protester flashes the victory sign in front of a burning barricade in Beirut, January 15. (AFP)

Lebanon’s next government is doomed to fail

Idlib

A Syrian boy walks through rubble after receiving treatment at the industrial zone after Syrian government air strikes on the rebel-held Idlib province, January 15. (DPA)

Lack of humanitarian aid to Idlib made worse by diplomatic wrangling

Iraq

Posters of anti-government protesters who have been killed in demonstrations are displayed in Tahrir Square during ongoing protests in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, January 18. (AP)

The myth of state accountability in Iraq

Palestinians

Out of focus. A Palestinian man stands by a fence as he waits for a travel permit to leave Gaza through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. (Reuters)

Does the Palestinian cause still matter to Arabs and Muslims?

Ismail Haniyeh

Wrong comparison. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh speaks at the funeral of Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, in Tehran, January 6. (Reuters)

Soleimani is no Arafat and Haniyeh should know that

Marwan Kanafani

US

US President Donald Trump speaks about the situation with Iran in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, DC, January 8, (AFP)

Trump’s threat to ruin Iraq financially has a historical parallel

Rashmee Roshan Lall

Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan next to a Turkish soldier wearing an Ottoman uniform in Istanbul, last July. (AFP)

One more twist in Erdogan’s imperial mindset

Hezbollah

Supporters of the pro-Iran Shia Hezbollah movement watch as the movement’s leader Hasan Nasrallah delivers a speech on a screen in Nabatieh on January 12, 2020. (AFP)

Nasrallah’s disconnect cannot conceal the region’s realities

Khairallah Khairallah

Sahel

France's President Emmanuel Macron gestures next to Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou and Chad's President Idriss Deby during a news conference as part of the G5 Sahel summit on the situation in the Sahel region in Pau, France January 13. (Reuters)

Sahel security of concern to Arab world