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Syria

A C-17 Globemaster III conducts combat airlift operations for US and coalition forces in Iraq and Syria on April 13. (US Air Force)

Mission unaccomplished in Syria

Gaza Strip

Palestinian children collect tyres before burning them to protect themselves from shots by Israeli soldiers near the Israel-Gaza border. (AFP)

Gaza children are becoming adults before their time

Iraq

Campaign posters for parliamentary elections adorn a street in Baghdad, on April 19. (AP)

Iraq elections could be an opportunity to curb Iran influence

Mamoon Alabbasi

Turkey

A Greek Coast Guard vessel sails next to the Mikros Anthropofas (L) and Megalos Anthropofas (R) islets , on April 16. (Reuters)

Could Turkey go to war with Greece because Erdogan has called an election?

Iran

A 2016 file picture shows US’s J’den Michael Tbory Cox (L) wrestling with Iran’s Alireza Mohammad Karimi Mashiani at the Carioca Arena 2 in Rio de Janeiro. (AFP)

Iranian wrestlers struggle against ideology

Saudi Arabia

A Saudi woman releases a falcon at Al-Reem Reserve camp, west of Riyadh. (Reuters)

Why Saudi Arabia needs to lift the veil on heritage treasures

Kurds

Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters take part in a graduation ceremony at the Zakho military academy, last January. (AFP)

The myth of Kurdish military efficacy has been shattered

Tallha Abdulrazaq

Syria

US President Donald Trump (R) talks with British Prime Minister Theresa May in Taormina in Italy, last May. (AP)

A ‘snowflake’ strategy for Syria

Rashmee Roshan Lall

Iran

Surface-to-air missiles are paraded past a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, on April 18. (AFP)

Tehran has given up on France and Europe in its showdown with US

Mohamad Abbas Naji