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Middle East Developments

Rafah crossing reopening, Iran's EU tensions, and U.S. arms sales review

Israel Begins Pilot Reopening of Rafah Crossing Under Strict Screening

The move is a first-step deliverable in the U.S.-brokered ceasefire, operated under Israeli screening with EU and Egyptian oversight.

U.S. Opens Door to Iran Talks With Ankara Meeting in the Works

UAE Royal Quietly Bought 49% of Trump-Linked Crypto Firm for $500 Million Days Before Inauguration

Iran Labels EU Armed Forces Terrorist Groups After EU IRGC Blacklisting

Iran Releases Erfan Soltani on Bail After Disputed Death-Sentence Claims

U.S. Moves $15.6 Billion in Arms Sales to Israel and Saudi Arabia Into Congressional Review

Gal Hirsch Details Aborted Rescues, Hamas Decade Plan as Families Denounce His Conduct

Kurds Rally as US-Brokered Deal to Integrate Northeast Syria’s Kurdish Institutions Begins Monday

Khamenei Warns a U.S. Strike Would Ignite Regional War as Trump Signals Openness to Deal

Investigations Link Mojtaba Khamenei to £100 Million in London Mansions

Israel Orders Doctors Without Borders to Leave Gaza by Feb. 28 Over Staff-Data Dispute

Khamenei Warns U.S. Attack on Iran Would Ignite Regional War

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Britannica Removes Kids Map Labeling Israel as 'Palestine'

Israel Partially Reopens Rafah Crossing as Strikes in Gaza Kill Dozens

Israeli Strikes Kill Dozens as Rafah Crossing Partially Reopens Under Fragile Ceasefire

Coordinated Separatist Attacks Sweep Balochistan, Killing At Least 10 Security Personnel

IDF and Watchdog Name Gaza Doctor Who Wrote NYT Op-Eds as Hamas Colonel

U.S. Sanctions Iranian Security Chiefs as CENTCOM Warns on IRGC Strait Drill and Trump Sets Deadline

EU Names Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a Terror Group as U.S. Carrier Arrives and Turkey Moves to Mediate

Damascus and Kurdish-Led SDF Seal Deal to Integrate Forces and Administrations