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- Airstrikes, rockets and bomb blasts on Syria’s day of violence
- Syrian military says it thwarted most of the missiles fired by Israelis
- Former envoy Brett McGurk says the absence of a plan is increasing the risk to US forces
- Trump announced the US withdrawal because, he said, Daesh had been defeated
- The “National Program for Rehabilitation and Training of Human Resources Personnel and Leaders in Government Agencies” which aims to expand the skills of government personnel
- The training program is in line with the Saudi Vision 2030
- Yemeni soldiers recaptured the strategic mountains of Wadi Al-Tamm and Jabal Al-Saif after clashes with the Houthis
- Another seven militants were killed in a Yemeni army bombing
- Activists challenging President Omar Al-Bashir’s autocratic rule say they have learned from their Arab Spring counterparts and introduced tactics of their own
- Sudan did not experience the mass street protests that swept several Arab nations in 2011
- Exemptions have been granted to Iran's biggest oil clients - Japan, China, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Italy, Greece and Turkey
- Iranian oil accounted for 5.3 percent of Japan's total crude imports in 2018
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- Japanese journalist says they have to cover the summit because the Mideast region is too important for Japan
- TV, print and radio journalists were given the necessary equipment and space to allow constant reporting of the summit’s opening remarks
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