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Syria's New Parliament Holds First Session, Marking Transition From Assad Era

New Delhi, July 13 -- DAMASCUS - The assembly chamber in Damascus filled with 210 Syrians on Sunday, the first time any chamber in the country had convened with members who were not chosen by or behol... Read More


Iran Targets US HIMARS Launchers in Kuwait With Drones, IRGC Claims All Systems Destroyed

KUWAIT CITY, July 13 -- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck United States Army HIMARS surface-to-surface missile launchers in Kuwait with precision drones on Sunday, the Fars news agency r... Read More


UAE Delivers 792 Tonnes of Humanitarian Aid to Gaza as Ceasefire Corridor Opens

DUBAI, July 13 -- For the second consecutive week, relief convoys organized under the UAE's Operation Chivalrous Knight 3 crossed into Gaza through Egypt's El Arish crossing, carrying supplies through... Read More


Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Qatar's Transformative Former Emir, Dies at 74

New Delhi, July 12 -- DOHA - He came to power by deposing his own father, then left by handing the throne to his son. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former Emir of Qatar who transformed a gas-... Read More


Sudan Army Retakes Kurmuk as RSF Tightens Siege of El-Obeid

KHARTOUM, July 12 -- The Sudanese army announced Wednesday it had retaken the border town of Kurmuk from the Rapid Support Forces after more than three months of occupation, a gain that arrived alongs... Read More


Iran Vows to Hold Strait of Hormuz by Force, Says It Outweighs Nuclear Arsenal

New Delhi, July 12 -- Iran's supreme leader heard a public commitment from one of his senior advisers on Sunday: the Strait of Hormuz, which the Revolutionary Guards formally closed earlier in the day... Read More


Syria Removed From US State Sponsors of Terrorism List After 47 Years

New Delhi, July 12 -- DAMASCUS - Ihab has run the same pastry shop in central Damascus for eleven years, through airstrikes, currency collapses, and the kind of endemic power cuts that made refrigerat... Read More


Pakistan Backs Iran at UN as UNSC Convenes on Nuclear Program After JCPOA Expiry

New Delhi, July 12 -- NEW YORK - When Pakistan's envoy raised an abstention at the United Nations Security Council on Friday, Iran's ambassador did not let the moment pass without notice. Amir Saeid I... Read More


Erdogan Hosts Lebanese PM Salam in Istanbul as Turkey Seeks Post-Iran Lebanon Role

The meeting, July 12 -- who fills the space that Iran's battered proxies left behind? Turkey is positioning itself to counter both Israeli and Iranian influence in a country their competing ambitions... Read More


IRGC Declares Strait of Hormuz Closed as US Bombs Iranian Port Cities

New Delhi, July 12 -- DUBAI - Iran's military struck a Cyprus-flagged container ship in the Strait of Hormuz early Saturday, hours after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps formally declared the wat... Read More