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A drone images shows Syrian demonstrators gathering during a protest in the village of Maaret al-Naasan in Syria's Idlib province on May 1, 2020, to protests against a reported attack by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an alliance led by a former Al-Qaeda affiliate, on a protest the previous day. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP) (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Several dead in northwest Syria fighting

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Women wearing face masks hold signs in Ankara, on August 5, 2020, during a demonstration to demand the government not withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, a landmark treaty on preventing domestic violence. The protests were the biggest in recent weeks as anger grows over the rising number of women killed by men in the past decade since the Istanbul Convention. The treaty's official title is the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, agreed up

Biden calls Turkish exit from women’s treaty 'disheartening step backward'

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Smoke billows following a reported airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, on March 7, 2021. - The Saudi-led military coalition mounted air strikes on Yemen's Huthi-controlled capital after it intercepted 10 drones launched by the Iran-backed rebels, state media reported. "The military operation targets Huthi military capabilities in Sanaa and a number of other provinces", the coalition was quoted as saying by the official Saudi Press Agency.

Saudi Arabia-led coalition ramps up airstrikes in Yemen after Houthi attacks

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Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu (C, front row with a blue mask), a human rights advocate and lawmaker from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and his colleagues pose after the parliament stripped his parliamentary seat, Ankara, Turkey, March 17, 2021.

Turkey arrests HDP officials in party crackdown

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A man photographs debris from 2020 Houthi attack on a Saudi Aramco oil facility in Jeddah.

Yemen’s Houthis hit Saudi Aramco refinery with drones

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Erdogan seen on video call

Erdogan defends Putin over spat with Biden

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Smoke billows during Marib clashes

UN Security Council urges Houthis to end escalation in Marib

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A worker hangs election campaign posters for Israel's Likud party bearing a portrait of its leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a billboard in the Israeli central city of Bnei Brak, on March 14, 2021. - On March 23, the 71-year-old wily politician faces his fourth re-election contest in less than two years, after repeatedly failing to unite a coalition behind him, despite his devoted right-wing base.

Emirati politician says Israel normalization should not be used in Israeli election

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Colin Kahl

Former US, Israeli officials voice support for Biden's Pentagon policy pick

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Turkish parliament HDP members

US warns Turkey's HDP dissolution would ‘undermine democracy’

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Top general threatens Iran could ‘blow up’ Israel as rhetoric escalate

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Iran begins phase one of domestic vaccine production

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