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Elfadil Ibrahim

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Middle East

Iraq on razor's edge between Iran and US interests in new war

Caught in the middle of Iran and pro-Israel Washington, plus a defiant militia network, Baghdad faces impossible choices

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Middle East

A final curtain on the 'Axis of Resistance'?

Tehran is choosing state relations over ideological militancy, leaving its old proxy Hezbollah under greatly altered circumstances in Lebanon

President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Middle East

Egypt's energy gamble has left it beholden to Israel

Cairo faces a combustible mix of geopolitical blackmail, economic fragility, and surging regional tensions

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Africa

Will Sudan attack the UAE?

Accusations of genocide and war crimes may have taken the Sudanese civil war to a new level

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Middle East

Why Trump ghosted Israel: He likes 'winning'

Leaving Netanyahu off his itinerary of must-see leaders was a tactical, not so much a strategic, move.