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...The Iraqi and Syrian governments said several dozen people were killed in the strikes, including civilians....
...Israel has struck hundreds of targets linked to Tehran and its proxies across Syria, including the Aleppo and Damascus airports, since Iran deployed troops in the Arab state to support Syrian president Bashar...
...deployed troops to the Arab state to back President Bashar al-Assad after a 2011 popular uprising morphed into a civil war....
...It deals a heavy blow to western and Arab hopes of de-escalating regional hostilities, and bringing an end to the war in Gaza....
...Iranian officials, who said the slain militant was an “adviser” in the Arab state, blamed Israel for the assassination and said they reserved the right to respond in kind....
...But the pullout from Afghanistan and decision to rotate out the Patriots worsened the perception in the Arab world that successive US administrations had been disengaging from the region....
...Syrian state television reported on Thursday that Israeli missiles struck airports in the capital Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo....
...Raisi told his Syrian counterpart that Iran would continue to “stand by” the war-ravaged Arab state during its reconstruction, according to Iranian state media....
...In the decades-long regional hostility between Israel and Iran, Palestinian militant group Hamas has never come fully under the Islamic republic’s sway....
...The US has launched air strikes against Iran-backed militants in eastern Syria after an American contractor was killed and five soldiers injured by a drone attack on a coalition base in the Arab state....
...Kim GhattasIndeed, it was the deadliest terrorist attack in Iran since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979. We had two suicide bombings take place and 88 people were killed and scores injured....
...It was 100 years ago, in October 1923, that the Turkish republic was created, putting the country on a largely secular political path that broke with its Ottoman past....
...The US and Gulf Arab states accuse Tehran of supplying drones to Houthi rebels fighting in Yemen’s civil war and blamed the Islamic republic for a sophisticated missile and drone attack that struck at the...
...brought against military-dominated republics, against Gulf monarchies....
...It also upset Washington by hosting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad last week, the first Arab state to do so since he launched a brutal war to crush the 2011 popular uprising....
...The assault risks ending the first serious attempts in decades to build detente across the Gulf between the Sunni Arab monarchies and Iran’s Shia Islamic republic....
...But one sort of feels that people power is getting weaker, that you saw in the Arab Spring, governments fell....
...It also ruffled feathers when it chose to be among the first Arab states to restore diplomatic relations with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad....
...Iran was by then in a deadly war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and Syrian president Hafez al-Assad was the only Arab leader to back the Islamic republic....
...Over the weekend, an Israeli woman who had crossed over into Syria was released after Israel paid Russia to fly an unspecified amount of its Sputnik V vaccine to the Syrian regime, the senior Israeli politician...
...The United Arab Emirates or Iraq?” says Lieven. “Most people would probably choose undemocratic Singapore and the UAE.”...
...A writer in the New Republic began with this opening salvo: “What do Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Susan Sontag have in common?”...
...Tehran has in recent weeks threatened to suspend short-notice inspections by the UN watchdog monitoring the Islamic republic's atomic activity....
...Myoga Molisho has lived a hand-to-mouth existence in the decade since she fled the Democratic Republic of Congo, to seek asylum in South Africa....
...The United Arab Emirates this month began offering a third shot of the Sinopharm jab in a small number of cases with low immunity....
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