Lebanon’s premier said his government can overcome differences with the International Monetary Fund over a proposed law that would let depositors recover billions of dollars trapped in the country’s beleaguered banking sector.
Residential and commercial property surround the blue dome of Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque in Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. Lebanon's worst economic crisis in decades is forcing authorities to wade deeper into the kind of fiscal engineering that the International Monetary Fund said risks undermining the central bank’s credibility.
A standoff between the White House and Iraqi politicians over who should be the Middle Eastern country’s next prime minister is worsening, according to several people, with the rift threatening to destabilize the OPEC member.
Nouri Al-Maliki Photographer: Hadi Mizban/AP Photo
As the country recovers from the disastrous US invasion, it’s being pulled between its neighbor Iran, which has built decades of influence, and a president who wants America to have more sway in OPEC’s second-largest producer.
Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, Iraq’s prime minister, in Baghdad in November.
Saudi Arabia is finalizing an agreement on a new military coalition with Somalia and Egypt, part of its bid to curtail the United Arab Emirates’ regional influence.
Saudi special security forces march during a military parade at a base near Mount of Arafat, southeast of the holy city of Mecca, on November 22, 2009. Saudi Arabia's Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz said the kingdom hopes not to have to "resort to force" to maintain security for the hajj, in a reference to worries Iranian pilgrims may demonstrate. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from across the globe have gathered in the country to perform the pilgrimage in the holy Muslim cities of Mecca and Medina. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)
Iran has spent decades funding and nurturing a web of proxy militias across the Middle East for exactly this type of moment: The Islamic Republic is besieged by a popular domestic uprising and threatened externally by arch enemies Israel and the US.
A masked militant, wearing Hezbollah's patch, with a rocket launcher during a parade of Basij and IRGC forces in Tehran. Photographer: Hossein Beris/AFP/Getty Images
Members of a Yemeni faction that led a failed secession attempt last month announced from Riyadh the group had dissolved — though the claim was declared illegitimate by the organization’s leaders in the United Arab Emirates.
Saudi-backed forces in Mukalla, Hadramaut province, Yemen, on Jan. 4.
Saudi Arabia is moving to end the role of the United Arab Emirates in Yemen and diminish its neighbor’s influence in other arenas, including the Red Sea, as tensions rise in the longstanding rivalry between the two Gulf powerhouses.
Saudi-backed forces that took control of the Second Military Region Command on the outskirts of Mukalla, Yemen, Jan. 2.
Saudi Arabia is moving to end the role of the United Arab Emirates in Yemen and diminish its neighbor’s influence in other arenas, including the Red Sea, as tensions rise in the longstanding rivalry between the two Gulf powerhouses.
Saudi-backed forces that took control of the Second Military Region Command on the outskirts of Mukalla, Yemen, Jan. 2.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was greeted at the White House last week with considerable pageantry and a series of pledges from US President Donald Trump, a mutual love-in that appeared to deepen the relationship between the two countries.
Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on Nov. 18. Photographer: Nathan Howard/Politico/Bloomberg
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