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Qatari ambassador meets Saudi diplomat in Riyadh

The meeting was a further sign of improving relations between the Gulf states, who did not have relations from 2017 to January 2021. Qatar’s ambassador in Riyadh held a meeting with a top Saudi diplomat Tuesday. Ambassador Bandar bin Mohammed al-Attiyah and the Saudi Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign …

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Two killed, 18 injured in twin bomb blasts in Syria’s Jarabulus

At least two people were killed and 18 others injured on Tuesday when two bombs exploded in the city of Jarabulus in northern Syria, which is under the control of Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters. An IED planted by unknown assailants exploded in a garbage skip in a city centre market …

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Afghanistan Can Be an Opening for U.S. Diplomacy With Russia

On Feb. 15, 1989, Col. Gen. Boris Gromov became the last Soviet commander to leave Afghanistan, crossing the Friendship Bridge into what was then the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Gromov’s departure ended the USSR’s decade-long military occupation of Afghanistan, characterized by some as the country’s version of the Vietnam War. …

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