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Customers order a popular Yemeni meal known as Al-Saltah, at a restaurant in Sanaa July 3, 2013. According to the United Nations, there are approximately five million people in Yemen who are either suffering from food insecurity or are at risk of acute food insecurity caused by rising food and fuel prices and political instability. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi (YEMEN - Tags: FOOD SOCIETY BUSINESS) - GM1E97401O501

Pandemic worsening existing food crises across the Middle East, UN agencies warn

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View of a pier in downtown Muscat, Oman. (Photo by: Edwin Remsberg/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Oman ending lockdown in capital

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TOPSHOT - Relatives of farmer Hamad al-Ibrahim clean his damaged land in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz on March 13, 2020, a year after the fall of the Islamic State's (IS) caliphate. - A year after the last black flag of the Islamic State group was lowered in the Syrian village of Baghouz, traces of the jihadist group are still all around this small and remote village near the Iraqi border, where Kurdish fighters and the US-led coalition declared the IS proto-state defeated in March 2019 after a bli

Coalition airstrike kills Islamic State leader in eastern Syria, Iraq says

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A Saudi man wearing protective gloves buys vegetables at a supermarket, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 11, 2020. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri - RC2DMG9SBKB9

Saudi Arabia again easing anti-virus restrictions

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Women walk outside the Church of the Nativity as it reopens after Palestinians ease the restrictions of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank May 26, 2020. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma - RC26WG93LYX0

Bethlehem, Jerusalem churches reopen to limited number of worshipers

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People wearing protective face masks wait to complete their transactions in the Civil Status Department after Jordan's public sector employees returned gradually to work, two months after they were ordered to stay home as part of a tight lockdown to stem the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Amman, Jordan May 26, 2020. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed - RC2CWG9G4C2S

Jordanian government employees return to work

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Syrian Muslim men wearing face masks, queue to enter the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus to attend the Friday prayer on May 15, 2020, following the authorities' decision to allow prayers on Fridays in disinfected mosques with strict social distancing and protection measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. - President Bashar al-Assad warned earlier this month of a "catastrophe" in war-battered Syria if the easing of lockdown measures against coronavirus is mishandled. (Photo by LOUAI BES

Syrian government lifts nightly curfew despite uptick in coronavirus cases

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Iraqis walk at a luna park empty in the northern iraqi city of Mosul on May 25, 2020 on the second day of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday which starts at the conclusion of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, after months of closure due to the coronavirus Covid-19 lockdown. - Muslims around the world began marking a sombre Eid al-Fitr, many under coronavirus lockdown, but lax restrictions offered respite to worshippers in some countries despite fears of skyrocketing infections. (Photo by Zaid AL-OBEIDI / AFP)

Iraq registers jump in COVID-19 cases during Eid al-Fitr holiday

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Iranians visit the Shah Abdol-Azim shrine in the capital Tehran on May 25, 2020, following the reopening of major Shiite shrines across the Islamic republic, more than two months after they were closed because of the Middle East's deadliest novel coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran reopens holy shrines amid easing of coronavirus restrictions

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Intel: Pompeo warns against Libya weapons flows in PM call

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Al-Monitor Staff

Libya's GNA takes back more of southern Tripoli from Hifter

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Khashoggi's son says family forgives killers

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