On Saturday, Emirates Leaks whistleblower website, citing informed sources, reported that Abu Dhabi was trying to foist Mohammed Dahlan on the upcoming Palestinian general elections. Dahlan is Fatah’s defected senior official and is the current advisor to the UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed.

The US military is building and expanding two runways in the eastern Syrian provinces of Hasakah and Deir Ezzor. The US forces are building a 1,400-meter-long runway at a US military base in the Omar oil field in Deir Ezzor province, and new troops and equipment are reportedly being transferred …

In 2021, Iraq more than any other time after the 2003 is facing economic and budget crisis. Meanwhile, political factions blame Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s economic performance and say that he did far below enough to get the country out of the current economic predicament.