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Iranian Foreign Minister: Fourth Round of US-Iran Talks to Be Held in Rome

Iranian officials say the fourth round of nuclear talks with the United States will take place in Rome on Saturday. Meetings with European countries are also scheduled ahead of the US talks.


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516 People Injured in Powerful Explosion in Bandar Abbas

A powerful explosion in Iran’s Bandar Abbas port city has injured 516 people, according to local authorities. The blast caused widespread damage across several kilometers, with rescue efforts underway.


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Mazlum Abdi: Kurdish Rights Must Be Guaranteed in the New Syria

Mazlum Abdi called for a decentralized constitution in Syria that guarantees Kurdish rights. He emphasized that Kurdish unity strengthens Syria’s unity and honors the sacrifices of all communities.


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Iran vows revenge as second IRGC officer dies from Israeli strikes in Syria

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards CORPS (IRGC) said Sunday another military adviser died of his wounds from Israeli airstrikes in Syria.


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Syrian foreign minister makes 1st visit to Egypt since 2011

Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad arrived in Cairo on Saturday, for the first such visit to Egypt in more than a decade.


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Two ISIS militants killed in attack on Asayish checkpoint in Hasaka

The Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria have put siege security measures in place after two Islamic State (ISIS) militants staged a suicide attack targeting a checkpoint in Hasaka’s al-Nashwa neighborhood, Rojava Information Center said on Saturday (April 1).


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Quds Force commander meets with militia leaders, officials in Iraq

Esmail Ghaani, the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, arrived in Iraq on an unannounced visit on Friday (March 31).


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Iran's Revolutionary Guard officer killed in Israeli airstrikes in Damascus

A member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed in Israeli airstrikes that pounded suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus early on Friday (March 31), the military branch said in a statement.


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Assad regime profiting from illicit captagon trade: UK

The British Embassy in Lebanon said Wednesday (March 29) that the Syrian regime is profiting from the illicit captagon trade.


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Baghdad ordered to compensate Turkey for crude exports from northern Iraq

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) ordered Iraq to pay compensation to Turkey for several violations concerning a longstanding international arbitration case regarding crude oil exports from Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), Turkey’s Energy Ministry said Tuesday (March 28) in a statement.


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World Bank allocates $207 million to support food security in Yemen

The World Bank announced a $207 million grant to address food security and malnutrition in war-torn Yemen.


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Turkey expected to pay $1.4bn in oil arbitration case with Iraq

Turkey is expected to pay $1.4bn to Iraq after losing the Kurdistan oil dispute case at an international arbitration court, Middle East Eye said on Sunday (March 26).


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Iraqi delegation to travel to Turkey for oil export negotiations

An Iraqi delegation will travel to Turkey to negotiate an agreement on oil exports following the international arbitration court ruling in Baghdad’s favor over the dispute with Ankara on Kurdistan’s oil.


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19 pro-Iran militants reportedly killed in US strikes in Syria

At least 19 militants were killed in US airstrikes on military bases housing Iranian militias in eastern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Saturday.


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Iraq becomes 1st MidEast nation to join UN Water Convention

Iraq has become the first Middle Eastern nation and the 49th party to join the UN Water Convention, the UN Economic Commission for Europe said on Friday (March 24).


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Turkey will continue to protect its water resources: President Erdogan

Turkey will continue to protect all of its water resources, which are the “most strategic asset” of the next century, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday (March 22).


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Bodies of nine SDF members killed in helicopter crash returned to Rojava

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Tuesday (March 21) the body of Shervan Kobani, the commander of the Anti-Terror Units (YAT), and the remains of eight other SDF members have been returned to Syria from the Kurdistan Region.


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Residents of Afrin protest killing of four Kurds in clash with Turkish-backed group

Residents of of the Kurdish town of Jinderes in Aleppo’s Afrin district protested the presence of a Turkish-backed armed faction on Tuesday (March 21) after four civilians were killed in a clash with the group the previous evening.


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Iran's Raisi invited to visit Saudi Arabia after detente

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz has welcomed the Tehran-Riyadh detente and called for economic and regional cooperation between the two countries, the Iranian president's top aide said Sunday.


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