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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (C), Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar (R) and head of the Turkish Intelligence Organization Hakan Fidan (L).

Turkey's intel chief visits Libya following trip by CIA head

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

A Yemeni woman shops at a market in Yemen's third city of Taiz, on December 15, 2022. - Yemeni society, although deeply conservative, has traditionally allowed space for individual freedoms. But this is changing under the Huthi movement, which was founded with the aim of pushing for a theocracy. (Photo by AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Women's campaign in Yemen protests Houthi dress code rules

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UAE to store carbon dioxide in rocks

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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)

European investigative team in Lebanon starts probe into Riad Salameh

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Al-Monitor Staff

Iraq Sadr

Iraq's Sadr indicates return to politics in public prayer session

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Al-Monitor Staff

F-16 jet

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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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