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The region known as the Middle East has been conquered and reconquered by every super power in the West. This has created a region rich in a culture of resistance and thousands of ethnic groups looking for their piece of land. This has created a complicated region and Jpost's Middle East News simplifies it.

 European Union High Representative Kaja Kallas and UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen meet with foreign ministers of different Middle Eastern states, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to discuss developments in Syria, on Dec. 14, 2024.

EU Parliament calls to expand presence in Middle East

 Armed and masked Palestinians patrol and enforcing the law in the street in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 1, 2024

Hamas warns those who 'spread chaos' following killing of its police officer

 Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's deputy foreign minister, speak during a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022

Does Iran hope Russia can save it from US strikes?

 Qais al-Khazali, head of the "Asaib Ahl al-Haq", one of the member factions of the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation Forces) paramilitaries, speaks during an event commemorating the 21st anniversary of their creation, at a hotel in Baghdad on May 3, 2024.

Israel involved in conspiracy to divide parts of Syria, Iraqi militia leader claims

 Donald Trump over a backdrop of an Iranian flag. (Illustrative)

Trump seriously considering Iran's offer of indirect nuclear talks

By Walla!
 Protesters hold a banner with an image of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, in Istanbul’s Sarachane Square, March 2025.

‘They’ve crossed a threshold of fear’: Turkey’s youth rise up

By Giorgia Valente/The Media Line
 Crowds in the central Gaza Strip, February 8, 2025.

Gaza clan executes Hamas policeman as part of blood feud

 U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York City, New York, U.S., September 23, 2019.

Egypt's Sisi, Trump discuss regional mediation efforts in phone call

By REUTERS
 An illustrative image of the Syrian and Iraqi flags.

Iraq and Syrian leaders discuss future cooperation

 Iranian missiles displayed at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Museum in Tehran, Iran. November 15, 2024.

Iran’s nuclear Catch-22: Enrichment, missiles, and the concession game

 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa (L) shake hands as they hold a joint press conference after their meeting at Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkiye on February 4, 2025.

Western intelligence source to 'Post': Turkey aims to activate the Syrian T4 air base

 IDF jets preparing to strike Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, March 22, 2025.

IAF kills Hassan Ali Badir, a terrorist for Hezbollah and Iran's Quds Forces, in Beirut strike

 Yazidi refugees stand behind fences as they wait for the arrival of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy Angelina Jolie at a Syrian and Iraqi refugee camp in the southern Turkish town of Midyat in Mardin province, Turkey, June 20, 2015.

Where are the missing Yazidis? Thousands still held captive after ISIS attacks

 FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 - Group A - Qatar v Ecuador - FIFA Fan Festival - Al Bidda Park, Doha, Qatar - November 20, 2022 A police officer gestures as a crowd attempts to enter the fan festival (illustrative)

Qatar arrests 16 Filipino workers for ‘unlawful protests’

 Egyptian army tanks deployed in the northern Sinai Peninsula, along the Gaza border, July 4, 2024

Egypt military buildup in Sinai threatens peace with Israel, source warns

 US President Donald Trump seen over an illustrative image of American-Iranian ties (illustrative)

Iran's dangerous game: The message behind Tehran's threats to Trump

 (L-R) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Benjamin Netanyahu seen over flags of Turkey and Israel, respectively (illustrative)

'Damn Zionist Israel': Are Israel and Turkey on a collision course?

 Palestine Red Crescent Society first responders console each other at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis during the return of the bodies of killed colleagues, March 30, 2025.

Red Cross 'outraged' at deaths of eight medics, killed on duty in Gaza

An illustrative image of US President Donald Trump and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

US will receive blow if they act on Trump's threats, Iran says

By REUTERS
 Syrian Kurds hold flags as they gather after Turkey's jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms on Thursday, a move that could end its 40-year conflict with Ankara, in Hasakah, Syria February 27, 2025.

Victims of Turkey's Kurdish militant conflict long for peace

By REUTERS
First responders work at the site of an Israeli strike in southern Beirut on March 28, 2025

Israel recalibrating rules of war after Hezbollah rockets, strike in Beirut

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