A thousand new drones were delivered to Iran’s army on Monday, the state-run Tasnim news agency reported, as the country braces for more friction with arch-enemy Israel and the United States under incoming US president Donald Trump.
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Category: 3. Middle East
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Syrians eye future without Russia, but Moscow still hopes to stay
BBCFor Ahmed Taha, Russia is an enemy — but he understands that Syria’s interim leaders want to think strategically about foreign policy For years Russia and Syria were key partners – Moscow gained access to Mediterranean air and sea bases…
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Donald Trump: How will the US handle Israel, Gaza, Iran, West Bank?
Donald Trump assumes his second term as president of the United States following tectonic changes in the Middle East that will shape the future of the region for generations to come.
A year and three months after the Hamas attack on southern…
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Top Vatican diplomat inaugurates, consecrates Catholic church at Jesus’ baptism site
Bethany Beyond the Jordan, Jordan —The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Friday consecrated a new Catholic church at Bethany Beyond the Jordan on the banks of the Jordan River officially recognized by the church as the…
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Germany pledges new aid to Syria at Riyadh summit
German Foreign Minister Baerbock has arrived in the Saudi capital, where a conference on the situation in Syria is being held.
There, Baerbock announced an additional €50 million euros for Syria for…
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Turkish media claims Iran will supply Kurds in Syria with 1,500 drones
Iran has reportedly agreed to supply 1,500 suicide drones to the Kurdish YPG/PKK group in Syria to counter Turkey’s military operations, a journalist of conservative Turkish newspaper Yeni Şafak, known for its support for Turkish…
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Malala Yousafzai urges Muslim leaders to back gender apartheid push
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law, and called on them to speak out against Afghanistan’s Taliban over its treatment of women and…
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Iran carries out air defense exercises amid fear of Israeli strikes
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) conducted an exercise to test its air defense systems on Saturday as part of a broader operation that began earlier in January and is expected to last about two months.
Reports indicate that these…
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ISIS shrine attack prevented in Damascus, Syrian authorities confirm
Syria’s Ministry of Interior confirmed to The Media Line on Saturday that it had thwarted an Islamic State (ISIS) bombing plot targeting the Sayyida Zainab shrine on the outskirts of Damascus, a revered site for Shi’ite Muslims. A…
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EU ministers to lift Syria sanctions at end of month
European foreign ministers will meet at the end of January to discuss the lifting of sanctions on Syria, the EU foreign policy chief said on Sunday in Riyadh ahead of a meeting of top Middle Eastern and Western diplomats and Syria’s new…
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