Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s visit to Moscow, his second in four months, comes days after Russia began withdrawing its forces and evacuating equipment from its military base in northeast Syria.
Category: 3. Middle East
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Sharaa, Putin meet in Moscow after Russia's abrupt pullout from Syria base
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Israeli-built dashboard tracks likelihood of U.S. attack on Iran
Fed up by conflicting media reports and growing uncertainty over a potential U.S. strike on Iran, an Israeli tech worker created a real-time dashboard estimating the likelihood of a strike in the next eight hours
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Turkey aims to lift trade volume with Nigeria to $5 billion
By Camillus Eboh
ABUJA, Jan 28 (Reuters) – Turkey aims to lift its trade volume with Nigeria to $5 billion from about $2 billion, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday following a meeting with visiting Nigerian President Bola Tinubu.
Turkey…
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Saudi Arabia weighs expansion of premium residency program to lure rich
By Timour Azhari
Jan 28 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia is drafting plans to extend its premium residency program to a wider selection of desirable individuals, including superyacht owners, those looking to live in the kingdom’s flagship development…
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Israel steps up evictions of Palestinians from East Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, Jan 28 (Reuters) – In Silwan in East Jerusalem, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Kayed Rajabi and his neighbors have been handed eviction orders in favor of an Israeli settler organization which has already taken over parts of the…
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Israeli lawmakers to hold initial vote on draft budget as elections loom
By Steven Scheer
JERUSALEM, Jan 28 (Reuters) – Israel’s parliament was expected to take its initial vote on the 2026 state budget draft on Wednesday, in a test of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government at a time when his coalition has been…
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Former Iraqi PM Maliki denounces Trump threats to end support if he returns to power
The US president said Iraq would have “zero” chance of success without American support.
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Iran protests continue under IRGC martial law
Nearly twenty days have passed since Iran was completely cut off from external communications. Despite the bloody suppression of massive demonstrations against the government, during which independent medical sources estimate that 30,000 people,…
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Israel prepares to bury last Gaza hostage
Grieving relatives of Ran Gvili gathered on Wednesday as Israel prepared to bury the last hostage returned from Gaza, marking the end of a painful national saga triggered by Hamas’s 2023 attack.
A large banner bearing the portrait of Gvili hung…
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Syrian leader to meet Putin for second time, as Russian presence in country dwindles
MOSCOW, Russia — Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday, as the Kremlin seeks to secure the future of its military bases in the country.
Putin and Sharaa struck a conciliatory…
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