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US to give $67 million to Lebanon’s military as violence erupts in Beirut (Al Monitor)

The Biden administration is sending Lebanon’s military an additional $67 million in a bid to keep the cash-strapped country’s largest functioning security institution from...

Food poisoning spikes in Lebanon amid fuel crisis (AJ Naddaff, Al Monitor)

Cases of food poisoning have been on the rise since the summer amidst Lebanon’s increased power outages. The true scale of the numbers has not...

No end in sight for civilian-military crisis in Sudan (Mohamed Saied, Al Monitor)

The head of the Sudanese military and chairman of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has recently called for the dissolution...

Lapid’s Washington visit brings Israel little assurance on Iran (Ben Caspit, Al Monitor)

This week’s Washington visit by Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, on Oct. 12-14, slightly eased the pessimism and deep concern that emerged from Jerusalem after the...

Iraq’s election results put militias between rock and hard place (Hassan Ali Ahmed, Al Monitor)

Preliminary election results were a shock to political parties affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) and associated militias. Meanwhile, the historical ally of...

Israeli legislators keep low profile on East Jerusalem construction plans (Mazal Mualem, Al Monitor)

Jerusalem’s Planning and Construction Committee approved Oct. 13 the expropriation of land across the Green Line for the construction of new residential complexes in East Jerusalem....

Egyptian rights advocates welcome fatwa forbidding short-term marriages (Shahira Amin, Al Monitor)

Dar Al Iftaa has issued a fatwa forbidding so-called tahleel marriages, or short-term, intermediate marriages in which a man marries a divorced woman for the sole...

Russian-Iranian competition heats up in South Caucasus (Kirill Semenov, Al Monitor)

During Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian’s visit to Moscow on Oct. 5, one of the main topics of the talks with his Russian counterpart...

Erdogan threatens fresh military campaign in Syria (Fehim Tastekin, Al Monitor)

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has raised the specter of a new Turkish military campaign against Kurdish forces in northern Syria following the killing of...

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