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The US State Department has approved the potential sale of HIMARS artillery rocket systems and related equipment to Morocco in a deal valued at up to $524 million, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The State Department has also approved the possible sale of Joint Stand Off Weapons and related equipment…

The US State Department designated Hurras al-Din leader Sami al-Uraydi as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reported the designation in a tweet on his official twitter account, noting that "terrorist designations expose the malign activity of and isolate al-Qaeda affiliates who exploit under-governed spaces…

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday said the United States will investigate the recent purported leak of classified documents until the source is found. Reuters has reviewed more than 50 of the documents, labeled "Secret" and "Top Secret," that first appeared on social media sites in March and supposedly…

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu confirmed that his country would continue its operations in Sulaymaniyah, under the control of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), in the first official response to the drone attack against Sulaymaniyah International Airport last Friday. In this regard, Cavusoglu said Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Talabani's…

Head of Libya’s government of stability, Fathi Bashagha announced that he would remain in his position until “all Libyan parties” agree on electoral laws, which are welcomed by the international community, and until they set dates for the presidential and parliamentary elections. “Only then will I decide,” he told Asharq…

The Military Intelligence Division of the Israeli Army (Aman) saw that the possibility of war breaking out in the region has increased over the past months. In a report issued on Tuesday and published by Haaretz, Aman considered that the current escalation during the month of Ramadan stemmed from three…

A bipartisan group of 130 lawmakers urged the European Union foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization. In their letter to Borrell, the lawmakers urged the European official to resolve the issue urgently, noting that the IRGC had "freely and…

Second-quarter results from Japan's Fast Retailing Co (9983.T), owner of clothing brand Uniqlo, will on Thursday offer a window into how rapidly demand in China is recovering after the lifting of pandemic curbs. The company, Japan's biggest retailer, reported a 2% dip in operating profit in the first quarter, partly…

Director of the GCC Affairs Department Alireza Enayati at the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Iran was making efforts to reopen its embassy in Riyadh and its consulate in Jeddah before the Hajj season. For his part, Iranian Minister of Economy Ehsan Khandozi said that he intends to…

The United Nations has expressed its optimism over the ongoing talks between Saudi and Omani delegations with the Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen’s Sanaa. The delegations had arrived in Sanaa on Sunday to discuss a roadmap for peace in war-torn Yemen. The peace would start with an expanded nationwide truce…

1) Apology small comfort for Brighton There was no stadium VAR delay on Saturday to check whether Kaoru Mitoma had been fouled by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg. Why did neither Stuart Attwell nor Stockley Park see it as a penalty? To be generous, perhaps Mitoma hit the ground a little easily but…