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Iraq sent a delegation to Damascus on Friday to study the possibility of restoring an Iraqi oil pipeline that transports oil through Syria to Mediterranean ports, the Prime Minister’s office said, Reuters reports.

The Iraqi delegation, led by the head of the National Intelligence Service, is also set to discuss counter-terrorism cooperation, border security and ways to expand trade between the two countries, the office added.

Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia…

Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani raised his country’s new flag at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday, in what he called a “historic” moment.

Shaibani “raises the new Syrian flag in front of the United Nations building in New York”, Syrian state news agency SANA reported.

Images showed Shaibani raising the three-starred flag officially adopted after the December ouster of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. The flag had become a symbol of the revolt against Assad’s…

US President Donald Trump yesterday signed an executive order aimed at ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s main online fundraising platform to crack down on supposed foreign contributions to elections.

Trump directed the attorney general to investigate, and report to the president, “concerning allegations regarding the use of online fundraising platforms to make ‘straw’ or ‘dummy’ contributions and to make foreign contributions to US political…