Middle East

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Iraqi authorities not to arrest Suadad Al-Salhy, a Baghdad-based reporter for the Middle East Eye news website.

The Supreme Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran Ali Khamenei ordered the country’s Iraqi Shiite proxies to end their attacks on US interests, Middle East Eye reported.

The United States on Thursday blacklisted Iraj Masjedi, Iran’s Ambassador to Iraq, Reuters reported.

Rocket attacks reportedly by Israel hit Iran-backed groups in Al-Quneitra northern countryside in the early hours of Wednesday, a Syrian monitoring group reported. 

The US State Department said in a statement that Iran-backed militia were behind the killing of civilians in Salah al-Din governorate.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on Wednesday launched the US-Saudi Strategic Dialogue in Washington.

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Tuesday that it will grant residential land to Liwa Fatemiyoun, which is an Afghan Shia militia group whose members are fighting for Iranian interests in Syria. 

An Iranian health official announced Saturday that all the flights to Iraq and vice versa have been canceled due to the severity of the coronavirus outbreak in the two states. 

A US judge on Thursday refused to dismiss an accusation against state-owned Turkish bank Halkbank HALKB.IS of helping Tehran circumventing American sanctions, Reuters reported.

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