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Joe Snell is an editorial team member of Al-Monitor. On Twitter: @joesnell03, Email: jsnell@al-monitor.com

Intel: Armenia's foreign minister in Egypt says Turkey undermines 'peace and stability in the region'

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A Yemeni health worker sterilizes a classroom in a school amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the capital Sanaa, on August 29, 2020, ahead of the new school year starting in early September. (Photo by Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Audio: Despite enormous challenges, Yemen’s educators return to classroom

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Intel: New Iraqi committee hopes to weed out corruption, 'exceptional crimes'

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TOPSHOT - Iraqi demonstrators gather amid smoke after fire services extinguished fire on tires during a protest near the governor's residence in the southern city of Basra, to oppose assassinations and demand the resignation of top security officials in the southern Iraqi governorate, on August 17, 2020. (Photo by Hussein FALEH / AFP) (Photo by HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP via Getty Images)

Intel: Murder of another Iraqi activist sparks new wave of demonstrations

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Iraqi Kurds take part in a mass demonstration in the city of Sulaymaniyah to demand payment of their salaries and an end to corruption, on September 27, 2016. / AFP / SHWAN MOHAMMED (Photo credit should read SHWAN MOHAMMED/AFP via Getty Images)

Intel: Unpaid salaries fuel protests in Iraqi Kurdistan

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Intel: Amid maritime deal with Egypt, Greece invites UN court to settle sea dispute with Turkey

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Lebanese and French rescuers search for victims or survivors amidst the rubble of a building in the Gemayzeh neighbourhood on August 6, 2020, two days after a massive explosion in the Beirut port shook the capital. - The blast caused massive destruction and killed at least 113 people, heaping misery on a country in crisis. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Beirut redoubles rescue efforts; patients continue to surge to exhausted hospitals

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Intel: Syria to build Hagia Sophia replica with Russian backing

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A man walks at a makeshift refinery using burners to distill crude oil in the village of Bishiriya in the countryside near the town of Qahtaniya west of Rumaylan (Rmeilan) in Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakeh province, on July 19, 2020. - Oil pollution in Syria has become a growing concern since the 2011 onset of a civil war that has taken a toll on oil infrastructure and seen rival powers compete over control of key hydrocarbon fields. In the Kurdish-held northeast, a large storage facility i

Turkey joins Syria in slamming oil agreement between US firm, Syrian Kurds

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Assyrians caught in crossfire between Turkey, PKK fighting

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Arabic Sesame Street helps children explore emotions

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Houthi troops ride on the back of a police patrol truck after participating in a Houthi gathering in Sanaa, Yemen February 19, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah - RC2M3F9S75BB

US threatens to stop Yemen aid if Houthis don’t cooperate

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