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Change in the Arctic (ESA)

Satellites play a vital role in monitoring the rapid changes taking place in the Arctic. Tracking ice lost from the world’s glaciers, ice sheets...

Four Gulf states recall diplomats from Beirut (Al Monitor)

Several Gulf states took action against Lebanon over the weekend after comments surfaced from a Lebanese minister criticizing the Saudi intervention in Yemen. Bahrain gave...

US flies B-1 bomber over Middle East amid tensions with Iran (Al Monitor)

The US flew a nuclear-capable B-1B bomber over major waterways of the Middle East, the Air Force said Sunday, in Washington’s latest show of force amid...

Iraq arrests alleged Islamic State fighters after deadly attack (Al Monitor)

Iraqi security forces have captured several Islamic State fighters, a spokesperson announced today. The six alleged IS members were detained in Ramadi and Fallujah in Iraq’s western...

Pence endorses controversial Iranian opposition group (Al Monitor)

Another prominent American politician has come out in support of the controversial Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen-e Khalq, aka MEK. Former Vice President Mike Pence spoke...

Israel demolishes Muslim cemetery near Al Aqsa Mosque to build park (Ahmad Melhem, Al Monitor)

The Israeli police have tightened the siege on the Yusufiya cemetery near Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, while the municipality and the Israeli Nature and...

Iran says ‘all countries’ of Gulf should get details on nuclear talks (Al Monitor)

In an extensive interview with Iran Newspaper, the official daily of the government of Iran, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian discussed a wide range of topics,...

Legal ambiguity becomes the norm in Erdogan’s Turkey (Pinar Tremblay, Al Monitor)

Turkish Minister of Interior Suleyman Soylu gave a speech addressing Turkey's female mukhtars. Mukhtars are elected neighborhood administrators, and there are over 50,000 of them throughout...

Iraq’s elections weaken PKK in Sinjar (Mahmut Bozarslan, Al Monitor)

The ongoing power struggle between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP, the main political group ruling Iraqi Kurdistan) and armed Kurdish militants from Turkey over...

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