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Gulf

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir, leaves a press conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 21. (AP)

Gulf nations may opt for an Iran strategy independent from US

Khairallah Khairallah

Syria

In this Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018 photo, Chinese visitors arrive to the opening of the Syria rebuilding exhibition at the fair grounds in Damascus, Syria. (AP)

Rebuilding Syria, one luxury hotel at a time

Rashmee Roshan Lall

Saudi Arabia

A general view of Abadan oil refinery in southwest Iran, is pictured from Iraqi side of Shatt al-Arab in Al-Faw south of Basra, Iraq September 21. (Reuters)

Aramco attacks may be final straw

tunisia

Presidential candidate Kais Saied casts his ballot for presidential election at a polling station in Tunis on September 15. (AFP)

How social media helped Kais Saied beat the competition

Iran

US President Donald Trump (L) walks next to new national security adviser Robert O’Brien at Los Angeles International Airport, September 18. (AFP)

‘Locked and loaded,’ US still reluctant to directly challenge Iran

Arab American

US Representatives Rashida Tlaib (L) and Ilhan Omar discuss travel restrictions to Palestine and Israel during a news conference at the Minnesota State Capitol Building in St Paul, Minnesota, August 19. (Reuters)

In the 2020 vote, there is no monolithic Arab-American bloc

Lebanon

Reopening old wounds. A former inmate of Khiam prison chants slogans during a sit-in near a military court in Beirut where an arrest warrant was issued for Lebanese-American Amer Fakhoury, September 17. (AP)

Lebanese left to cope with own Vichy syndrome

US

A poster of the Islamic Republic’s founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is seen outside the headquarters of the Iraqi militia Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada in Basra. (Reuters)

Washington silent on Iran proxies threatening US citizens in Iraq

Tallha Abdulrazaq

Arab Spring

A woman carries her baby in front of her home at a cemetery located in the City of the Dead in Cairo. (Reuters)

Neglect of local government is a source of instability in the Arab world