Opinion

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) inspects medical facilities under construction
Erdogan is using the pandemic to fight his political rivals
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Baha al-Awam
Mustafa al-Kadhimi (L)
What is Kadhimi’s real plight?
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Diyari Salih
Workers at Egypt’s agriculture and fruit exporting company, Gamco, prepare oranges for export at a factory in Alexandria
Decision to reopen economy sparks fears of wider contagion in Egypt
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Amr Emam
A nurse cares for a new-born baby in a maternity room incubator, in Najaf, Iraq
The face of the world is bound to change after COVID-19
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Khairallah Khairallah
A member of Egypt’s security forces stands on a watchtower in the northern Sinai peninsula, as seen from the Israeli side of the border
Washington casts sceptical eye on Sinai-based MFO
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Geoffrey Aronson
A woman holds pictures of jailed former leader of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party Selahattin Demirtas
Lockdown gives Turks a taste of life in Kurdish regions
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Stephen Starr
US troops block a highway in outskirts of Baghdad after a roadside bomb attack
If China were sued over the pandemic, the US should be over Iraq
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Head of Israel’s Blue and White Party Benny Gantz (R) and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu shake hands
Gantz joins Netanyahu in fractured landscape
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Gregory Aftandilian
Moroccan policeman, patrolling as part of a larger combined security force, instructs a man to return home
How Moroccans are coping in the age of the coronavirus
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Saad Guerraoui
17 years on: US and Iraqi generals shake hands during the handover of Qayyarah Airfield West from US-led coalition forces to the Iraqi military
17 years ago, the US' target was Iraq - not its regime
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Khairallah Khairallah
ISIS flag
ISIS urged its followers to avoid Europe like the plague.
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Syrian refugees hold bags of gloves for preventing the coronavirus' spread, in al-Wazzani area in southern Lebanon
Syria’s nightmare is far from over
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Claude Salhani
Family members attend a funeral ceremony in Ankara, March 1, for one of the Turkish soldiers killed in Idlib
Erdogan's invocation of Ottoman history fools no one
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Baha al-Awam
An Iranian military truck carries missiles past a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a military parade
The removal of Iran from Iraq's internal affairs will benefit the Middle East
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Abdulrahman Al-Hussein
An anti-government protester prepares to throw back a tear gas canister fired by riot police, during clashes in Baghdad
Uncertainty looms for leaderless Iraq
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Nazli Tarzi
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Election results are indicative of changes in Israel and the region
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Khairallah Khairallah
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attends a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin
Erdogan’s pyrrhic victory cannot hide the fact he has come home empty-handed
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Yavuz Baydar
Former UN Special Envoy for Libya Ghassan Salame
What peace process in Libya after Salame?
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Michel Cousins
TUrkish military convoy
Turkish impasse in showdown with Russia over Syria endgame
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Thomas Seibert
An Iraqi demonstrator covering her face with the national flag looks on during an anti-government demonstration by Basra University students
The making of the Iraqi cabinet is a comedy rerun
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Ibrahim al-Zoubeidi
Iranian Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi (L) wipes the sweat off his face during a news conference with government’s spokesman Ali Rabiei in Tehran
Plague-ridden Islamic Republic takes wrong decisions, again
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Ali Alfoneh
Iranian leaders
Consequences of enlisting Iran on FATF Blacklist
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Perviz S. Khazai
Iranian polling station
Iran: Are election results a cause for another uprising?
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Perviz S. Khazai
Protesters burn property in front of the US embassy compound, in Baghdad, Iraq
US-Iranian competition over Iraq at dead end
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Nazli Tarzi
Sarah al-Suhaimi was recently appointed chairwoman of the Saudi domestic stock exchange, the Tadawul, attends a session during the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 24
Women making inroads in GCC’s political, fiscal environments
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Jareer Elass
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Iran: Parliamentary elections or spark to end of 41 years of tyranny!
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Perviz S. Khazai
Palestine has a lengthy fishing range off the coast of the Gaza strip that stretches at 20 nautical miles
Natural Resources in Palestine Robbed by Israel
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Suha Aljundi
A view shows the Israeli settlement of Pisgat Zeev in the foreground
UN list of firms aiding Israel’s settlements was dead on arrival
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Jonathan Cook
A Turkish military convoy heading from the Syrian town of Sarmada towards the Bab Al-Hawa crossing with Turkey
In Idlib, Washington is taken hostage by its own illusions
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Yavuz Baydar
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump hold hands at the end of a joint press conference to announce the US' Middle East peace plan proposal
Why is Europe so indifferent to the Deal of the Century?
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Suha Aljundi