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Palestinian protestors clash with Israeli forces the funeral of a 20-year-old Palestinian, in the village of Beit Ummar, north of the West Bank City of Hebron, on July 30, 2021.

Palestinian killed by Israeli troops during funeral of boy shot by IDF

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Al-Monitor Staff

Tunisian soldiers cordon-off the Parliament in the capital Tunis on July 26, 2021, following a move by the President to suspend the country's parliament and dismiss the Prime Minister.

Tunisia's president names new interior minister as critics slam 'coup'

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Al-Monitor Staff

An undated image of Liberian flagged tanker MT Mercer Street.

Two reported dead in attack on Israeli-operated ship near Oman

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Al-Monitor Staff

Joe Biden discussing Gaza war on May 20

Poll finds Americans split on Biden's handling of Gaza war

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Volunteers help to extinguish a forest fire in the Qubayyat area of northern Lebanon's remote Akkar region on July 29, 2021.

Forest fires rage in Lebanon, Syria and Turkey

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Tunisian President Kais Saied delivers a speech following the launch of Russia's Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying 38 foreign satellites among them Tunisia's first satellite Challenge-1, at Telnet telecommunications group in the capital Tunis on March 22, 2021.

Tunisian presidency fires head of state TV, other top officials

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Al-Monitor Staff

Daraa in 2019

Fighting between government, rebels intensifies in Syria's Daraa

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Al-Monitor Staff

Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, speaks during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, on June 9, 2021.

Senator urges aid freeze to Egypt amid human rights abuses

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint-press conference with Kuwaiti foreign minister in Kuwait City on July 29, 2021.

Blinken: Iran nuclear talks ‘cannot go on indefinitely’

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Al-Monitor Staff

A boy digs in a garbage container in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Jan. 15, 2021.

Half a million children in Lebanon still 'struggling to survive' after Beirut blast

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A cemetery worker digs grave holes for victims of the COVID-19 coronavirus at Setu Gede cemetery in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, on July 22, 2021.

Saudi Arabia to impose travel ban for visits to 'red list' countries

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Al-Monitor Staff

A police officer patrols in front of banners put up by members of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

US condemns violence against protesters in Iran

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Al-Monitor Staff