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US working with Congress towards Turkey F-16 sale

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Al-Monitor Staff

Guests attend the Global AI 2020 Summit, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 21, 2020.

Investment in Saudi Arabia startups in 2022 nears $1 billion

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Al-Monitor Staff

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Iran's top diplomat to visit Turkey amid Erdogan-Assad thaw

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Al-Monitor Staff

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UAE announces new guidance to control money laundering

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Al-Monitor Staff

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar attends a ceremony to honor fallen soldiers at the Brother's Cemetery in Riga city, on July 28, 2022 in Riga, Latvia. (Photo by GINTS IVUSKANS/AFP via Getty Images)

Middle East military rankings: Turkey highest, Lebanon lowest per global index

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Al-Monitor Staff

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Ukraine and Turkey defense chiefs speak amid prisoner-swap reports

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Al-Monitor Staff

Lebanon's Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh gives an interview with AFP at his office in the capital Beirut on December 20, 2021. (Photo by JOSEPH EID/AFP via Getty Images)

Lebanon's Riad Salameh probe tops visit of European investigators

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Al-Monitor Staff

Saad Sherida al-Kaabi (R), Qatar's energy minister and CEO of QatarEnergy, and Bruce Chinn, CEO of Chevron Phillips Chemical company, attend a signing ceremony at the QatarEnergy headquarters in Qatar's capital Doha on January 8, 2023. (Photo by AMR DIAB/AFP via Getty Images)

Qatar and Chevron sign major petrochemical deal

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Egypt, facing economic crunch, restricts non-essential travel for government

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Al-Monitor Staff

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Iran summons Iraqi ambassador over 'Arab Gulf' row

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Al-Monitor Staff

Participants attend the launch of the new tourism visa in Ad Diriyah, a UNESCO-listed World Heritage Site, outside Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 27, 2019.

Saudi Public Investment Fund announces new tourism project in Diriyah

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Al-Monitor Staff

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Explainer: Interpol nabs alleged Libya-based trafficker

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Al-Monitor Staff