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A hectic year for Egypt

A complete overview of the Ramses Hilton Hotel (R), the Maspero Television Building (C) and the building of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a view of the Qasr El Nil Bridge (front) on the banks of the Nile.

The Gulf in 2020 faces many questions, few answers

Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (C) poses for a family photo with Emir of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (2nd R), Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad bin Salman (R), Bahrain King Hamed bin Isa Al Khalifa (3rd R), Oman Deputy Prime Minister Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said (4th L) and Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah (2nd L) prior to the 40th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) annual summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on December 10, 2019.

Iraq is right where it doesn’t want to be

Mourners surround a car carrying the coffins of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, killed in a US air strike, during their funeral procession in Kadhimiya, a Shiite pilgrimage district of Baghdad, on January 4, 2020.

Storms on the horizon for Turkey in 2020

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech as he attends the Symposium on Urban Security at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey on January 02, 2020.

As the prospects for a deal recede, Yemen may be set for more turbulence

Yemeni security forces loyal to the Huthi-rebel government stands guard as Muslim worshippers perform Eid al-Fitr prayers at a square in the capital Sanaa on June 5, 2019, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.

US “maximum pressure” and Iranian “maximum resistance” will come to a head in 2020

People gather to stage a protest against the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani by a US air strike in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, after Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran on January 3, 2020.

Uncertainty abounds for Afghanistan in 2020

General view of city amid heavy smog in Kabul, Afghanistan on January 01, 2019.

The future of the UK’s relationship with the Maghreb

Algerian protesters wave national flags during an anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers, on December 20, 2019.

Big questions for Libya in 2020

Thousands of people gather at Martyr's Square within a funeral ceremony held after an airstrike on a military school in the south of the Libyan capital of Tripoli by jets loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar, in Tripoli, Libya on January 05, 2020.

The prospects for Syria in 2020 are grim

An aerial view taken on December 8, 2019 shows the damage caused by reported Syrian regime and Russian air strikes the previous day in the town of Al-Bara in the south of Syria's Idlib province, that killed at least four civilans, including a child and wounding several others.

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