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Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz (C) heads a Saudi cabinet meeting in the capital Riyadh, on March 17, 2015. (Saudi Press Agency)
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US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pose for a photograph before resuming talks over Iran’s nuclear program in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 16, 2015. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
Iran, US meet for four hours before talks move to Brussels
Lausanne, Reuters—US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif held four hours of nuclear talks on Monday in the Swiss city of Lausanne before the Iranian delegation headed to Brussels for meetings with European ministers....Caption:
President of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani speaks during a joint press conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague (unseen) in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan, on June 27, 2014. (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)
Iraqis who support ISIS will be barred from liberated areas: Barzani
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—President of The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Massoud Barzani on Sunday told a meeting of leaders of Sunni tribes based west of Mosul that citizens who backed the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will not be allowed back into...Caption:
Members of pro-Russian self-defense units hold Russian and Crimean flags during a meeting to celebrate the first anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, in central Simferopol, on March 16, 2015. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
Russia starts nationwide show of force
Moscow, Reuters—More than 45,000 Russian troops as well as war planes and submarines started military exercises across much of the country on Monday in one of the Kremlin’s biggest shows of force since its ties with the West plunged to Cold War-lows. President...Caption:
Surrounded by young conference organizers, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi speaks during the final day of Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) that has injected billions of dollars’ worth of aid and investment into his country, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on March 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)