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Falih al-Fayadh, Iraq's interior minister candidate arrives at parliament headquarters in the capital Baghdad on October 24, 2018, prior to a vote on the new proposed cabinet. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP) (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)

US sanctions Iraq's PMU chair Falih al-Fayadh

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UAE reopens land, sea, air ports to Qatar following Gulf deal

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Tehran reveals underground missile base near Persian Gulf

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DESSAU, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 23: An employee holds an ampoule into which the vaccine is later filled as German Health Minister Jens Spahn tours the lab facilities of vaccine maker IDT Biologika during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic on November 23, 2020 in Dessau, Germany. IDT Biologika is currently conducting human trials for its potential vaccine against Covid-19. During the company visit, Spahn announced the planned purchase at least five million vaccine doses. (Photo by Hendrik Schmidt-Pool/G

Iran's supreme leader bans vaccines made in US, UK

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Emirati official says Gulf states to work on trade with Qatar before resuming diplomatic ties

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Israeli missiles hit Syria for second week in a row

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Oil prices at highest since February 2020 following Saudi output cut

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Rights group urges Libya's GNA to investigate 338 missing in Tarhuna

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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 05: The U.S. Department of Justice seal on the stage where U.S. and U.K. Law enforcement officials will announce warrants for the arrests of Maksim Viktorovich Yakubets and Igor Olegovich Turashev, two Russian hackers associated with a group called Evil Corp., at the U.S. Department of Justice on December 5, 2019 in Washington, DC. Today the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), and the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

US collects $7 million in Iranian assets amid pursuit of 'complex international conspiracy'

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The usually crowded seaside promenade is deserted, during a lockdown imposed by the authorities in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus, in the Lebanese capital Beirut, on January 7, 2021. - Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Lebanon has recorded nearly 200,000 cases including 1,537 deaths, according to health ministry figures.
Health professionals have warned that the latest surge in cases risked causing catastrophe across Lebanon, which is already suffering from the aftermath of a devastati

Lebanon returns to lockdown as virus cases spike

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Iraqi demonstrators lift anti-US placards during a rally marking the first anniversary of the killing of Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis (L) and Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani, in Tahrir square in the capital Baghdad on January 3, 2021. - Thousands of Iraqi mourners chanted "revenge" and "no to America", one year after the US strike which killed Soleimani and al-Muhandis and brought Washington and Tehran to the brink of war in early 2020, an anniversary that was also marked in

Iraqi judge issues arrest warrant for Donald Trump over Soleimani killing

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Intel: Biden to pick Brett McGurk for top White House Middle East role

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