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The Supreme Judicial Council of Saudi Arabia suspended two judges on Monday after they issued controversial rulings banning the use of shisha tobacco and shaving, local media reported Tuesday.

The archbishop of Mosul, Iraq, said Wednesday that while many Europeans have come to the aid of persecuted Christians in the Middle East, the European Union itself has been slow to mobilize.

The Abraham Accords, which have normalized relations between Israel and two Arab nations, underscore the foundational role of Abraham in all three of the Middle East’s monotheistic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Nearly half of the young people in North Africa and the Middle East say they are either actively trying to migrate or are considering migrating to another country, according to the 12th ASDA’A BCW Arab Youth Survey.

Mike Pompeo said part of how President Donald Trump and his administration have achieved many of the foreign policy successes the past few years has been by working outside various “multilateral institutions” that are often bogged down by bureaucracy and inaction.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday at an ABC News town hall promised peace in the Middle East without losing American soldiers in unwinnable wars.

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News exclusively that President Donald Trump’s peace deals in the Middle East are “all connected” and stem from recognizing Iran as the primary threat to stability in the region.

After a giddy 12 months that heralded a rise in domestic speedboat production, the enhanced ability to attack mock wooden aircraft carriers and a failed missile test that resulted in the surprise “martyrdom” of 12 of its own sailors, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani claimed Thursday the country has raced up global defense power rankings from number 23 to 14.

A United Nations tribunal convicted a member of Hezbollah for the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri on Tuesday over his role in a 2005 terror attack that led to years of violent conflict between the country’s political factions.

Ron Dermer said the Israel-UAE deal disproves the orthodoxy of Israeli-Palestinian peace being a preqequisite for broader Israeli-Arab peace.

The two U.S. warships in the Middle East weren’t aiming to break a record. But when the coronavirus made ship stops in foreign countries too risky, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the USS San Jacinto were ordered to keep moving and avoid all port visits.

Reports from across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia this weekend described Muslims ignoring coronavirus lockdown bans on large gatherings to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the end of the Ramadan holiday season, usually celebrated in a highly social manner.

Chinese state media has told the Arab world that the Chinese coronavirus came from the United States and might have even escaped from a U.S. laboratory.

Dubai — Debt levels, unemployment and budget deficits will spike as the Middle East endures a coronavirus-led recession, piling pain on economies already hit by conflicts and an oil price slump, the IMF said Wednesday.

Neither the moderators nor the candidates at Wednesday’s Democrat Party debate took the time to discuss national security or foreign policy issues in-depth, instead spending significant portions of the broadcast discussing former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s history of racist and sexist comments.

President Donald Trump traveled to Dover, Delaware, on Monday for a dignified transfer ceremony of two American soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

Pope Francis met with six Catholic patriarchs from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Iraq on Friday to discuss Christian persecution in the region as well as their mass emigration from the Middle East.

“Together we can bring about a new dawn in the Middle East,” Trump said as the room applauded.

“We had to make a decision, we didn’t have time to call up Nancy — who is not operating with a full deck,” Trump said as the crowd cheered.

China’s regime is “metastasizing right in front of our eyes” and will match U.S. military spending in 15 to 20 years, said Henry Olsen.

“Iranians are no threat to America in this country,” said Ann Coulter, stating that 30,000 Americans are killed every year “because of our neighbor to the south.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) awkwardly danced at a rally in Brooklyn, New York, alongside Julián Castro on Tuesday — the same night Iran launched missiles targeting bases that house U.S. troops in Iraq.

“We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war,” Trump said, adding that “we do not seek regime change” in Iran.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is sending nearly 3,000 more Army troops to the Mideast as reinforcements in the volatile aftermath of the killing of an Iranian general in a strike ordered by President Donald Trump, defense officials said Friday.

Iranian Quds Force General Qassem Soleimani was by all accounts responsible for the killings of hundreds of Americans over the years before President Donald Trump ordered, successfully, his killing in an airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday.

Appearing Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” former Obama Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes claimed President Donald Trump’s foreign policy in the Middle East is “schizophrenic” after warning Iran it will face consequences for an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.  

American taxpayers are once again being forced to subsidize border security measures in the Middle East as part of the latest government spending bill.

Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network writes at foxbusiness.com to commemorate the September achievement of U.S. energy independence, as measured by oil exports exceeding imports, for the first time in 70 years.

The gunman who opened fire at Naval Air Station Pensacola, killing three, is reportedly a foreign national from a Middle Eastern country.

The New York Police Department’s (NYPD) K9 units gathered supplies Wednesday for military dog units deployed to the Middle East during Christmas. 

Hungary’s State Secretariat for the Aid of Persecuted Christians decried rampant global Christian persecution in a high-powered conference in Budapest on Tuesday.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) unveiled his foreign policy vision Tuesday that would “keep Americans safe and prosperous,” while ending America’s decades-long wars in the Middle East.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) nodded her head in agreement during a town hall event in Iowa on Monday as an attendee asserted that the U.S. supports genocide in “Palestine and Yemen.”

“I got elected on bringing our soldiers back home,” Trump said. “It’s not very popular inside the Beltway.”

A plurality of working class and swing voters agree with President Trump that the United States is “too involved” in the Middle East, a new poll finds.

Former President George W. Bush, who led the United States into war across the Middle East, attacked President Trump on Wednesday night, saying U.S. intervention is necessary “for the sake of peace” around the globe.