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Mike Pompeo

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo walks to board his plane in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 18. (Reuters)

Pompeo skirts talk of peace plan on Israel trip

US

An Iraqi street currency exchanger and a customer count Iranian banknotes in central Baghdad, on March 16. (AP)

US extends Iraq waiver over Iran sanctions

Mike Pompeo

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference in Kuwait, on March 20. (AP)

Pompeo on Middle East tour to counter Iran

Syria

Iran's Chief of Staff Mohammad Hossein Bagheri (R) speaking during a press conference in Damascus, on March 18. (SANN via DPA)

New sources of tension seen in post-ISIS Syria

Space

Emirati astronauts Sultan al-Neyadi, left, and Hazza al-Mansoori, are interviewed by The Associated Press in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 25, 2019.

UAE announces pan-Arab body for space programme

Kurdish militia

President Bashar al-Assad (C) meeting with Iraq's Chief of Staff Othman al-Ghanimi (4th-R) and Iran's Chief of Staff Mohammad Hossein Bagheri (5th-L) in the presence of Syrian Defence Minister Ali Abdullah Ayyoub (3rd-R) in Damascus, March18, 2019. (AFP)

Syrian Kurds accuse Assad of policy of 'oppression and violence'

SDF

Heavy smoke rises above the Islamic State (IS) group's last remaining position in the village of Baghouz during battles with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in the countryside of the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor on March 18, 2019. (AFP)

US-backed SDF says it captured 157 militants, mostly foreigners

Kurdistan Workers Party

A member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), walks at the cemetery which belongs to fighters of the Sinjar Resistance Unit, in Sinjar, Iraq February 5, 2019. (Reuters)

Two Iraqi troops killed in clashes with PKK

US

Pump jacks are seen near McKittrick, California. (AFP)

Can shale ‘revolution’ make US top oil exporter?