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The difficult ordeal of forming a new Iraqi government

Iraqis stand outside parliament building, or Council of Representatives, in Baghdad's Green Zone on February 27, 2020. (Photo by SABAH ARAR / AFP) (Photo by SABAH ARAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Manufacturing Division: The Assad Regime and Minorities in South-west Syria

A picture shows the new church of Sayyidet al-Beshara in Shaqra town in the southern Syrian province of Daraa on December 22, 2019. - Less than 10 kilometres (six miles) away lies the mainly Christian town of Shaqra, emptied of most of its Christian residents after a spate of attacks by rebels and jihadists during the conflict. Such attacks have stopped since the area came back under regime control, but very few Christian families remain. (Photo by MAHER AL MOUNES / AFP) (Photo by MAHER AL MOUNES/AFP via Ge

The growing strength of Russian-Omani ties

Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah (L) meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (R) in Moscow, Russia on 18 February, 2019.

What’s next for coalition forces in Iraq?

U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, deploy from Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina on January 1, 2020.

The link between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iraqi militias

Qatar’s soft power sports diplomacy

This picture taken with a fish-eye lens on December 17, 2019 shows a view inside Qatar's new al-Bayt Stadium in the capital Doha, which will host matches of the FIFA football World Cup 2022. (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)

Turkey and Russia agree to a cease-fire in Idlib, but will it hold?

President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and President of Russia Vladimir Putin (R) shake hands at the end of a joint news conference following an inter-delegation meeting at Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia on March 5, 2020.

What does the new round of Saudi arrests mean?

Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (R) attends an oath ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on March 08, 2020.

The mismanaged politics of Iran’s coronavirus crisis

Iranian fire fighters and municipality workers disinfect a street in the capital Tehran for corona virus COVID-19 on March 5, 2020.

Iraq squeezed in a Russian-Saudi contest

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