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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo on Feb. 14 as part of a major state visit intended to boost the gradual normalization between the two countries that started in 2021,…
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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman received a written message from Mali’s Interim President Col. Assimi Goita regarding relations between their two countries and ways to strengthen joint cooperation, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Saturday.…
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Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan made a phone call to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the foreign ministry announced on Friday evening. During the call, they reviewed aspects of consolidating and…
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Analysts at a prominent thought leadership conference in Estonia debated on Friday whether the Middle East region and its hotspots have been neglected due to the Western focus on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In what has been…
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Iran and Syria agreed to boost ties and develop economic relations, with a focus on reconstruction, as the Islamic republic’s President Ebrahim Raisi on Friday concluded a landmark visit to Damascus. Tehran has been a key ally to…
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Plans by the Israeli government to strip the country’s highest court of power and which have caused months of protest and political upheaval at home, have led to tensions with Jewish groups based in North America, key benefactors of Israel.…
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Turkish police detained 110 people over alleged militant ties, security sources said on Tuesday, with a pro-Kurdish lawmaker saying politicians, lawyers and journalists were among those arrested in raids that he linked to elections on May…
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Russia will host a new round of talks on Tuesday aimed at normalizing ties between Turkiye and Syria, Turkiye’s defense minister said. The talks, also involving Iran, will be held in Moscow, Hulusi Akar said on Monday. They will be…
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Fifty years after the last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam, Secretary of State Antony Blinken looked Saturday to strengthen America’s ties with its old foes in Hanoi as it seeks to counter China’s growing assertiveness in the…
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Hussein Maytham and his family were driving past the palm tree grove near their home after a quiet evening shopping for toys for his younger cousins when their car hit a bomb planted on the moon-lit road. “I only remember the explosion,”…
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