Israel-UAE-Bahrain The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain signed bilateral normalisation agreements with Israel on the White House lawn. Small protests erupted across Bahrain in response to the announcement. Crisis Group expert Elham Fakhro says first the UAE and now Bahrain have shattered the pre-existing consensus that Israel’s formal relations …

Turkish and Russian officials have met to discuss the Turkish presence in the province of Idleb and options to scale back their observation posts writes Al-Masdar.

A US helicopter has followed a Russian convoy along a road in Hassakeh, following a recent incident that left a number of US soldiers injured reports Al-Masdar.