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      Aveen Karim

      Aveen Karim

      Deputy Foreign Editor
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      Abu Dhabi
      Aveen Karim is deputy foreign editor at The National, based in Abu Dhabi. Prior to joining the team, she was head of Rudaw English in Erbil. A Kurdish-Romanian-British journalist, she has experience covering geopolitics and security in the Middle East

      Articles

      Nechirvan Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Region of lraq, in Erbil on October 20, 2024. AFP
      Iraqi Kurdistan President urges PKK to disarm for peace

      Kurdish and Turkish politicians said Abdullah Ocalan is working on a solution to the conflict

      MENAFebruary 19, 2025
      Hamas fighters in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza. The group has released 21 hostages since the Gaza ceasefire began, in exchange for 730 detained Palestinians. AFP
      Hamas says ‘door remains open’ for hostage release if Israel respects truce

      Militant group accuses Israel of breaching agreement ‘on a regular basis’

      MENAFebruary 11, 2025
      Displaced Palestinians cross the Netzarim Corridor as they make their way to the northern parts of Gaza. AFP
      Israeli forces withdraw from corridor that divided Gaza in two

      Military zone holds significant strategic importance

      MENAFebruary 10, 2025
      US President Donald Trump has also proclaimed February 9 as 'Gulf of America Day'. AP
      Play01:34
      Trump says he wants US ‘to buy and own Gaza’

      US President commits to seizing enclave and criticises condition of released hostages

      USFebruary 09, 2025
      This handout picture released by the Israeli army on October 26, 2024, shows an Israeli fighter jet departing a hangar at an undisclosed location in Israel. AFP
      Iraq complains to UN over Israel using its airspace to attack Iran

      Tehran has accused the US of allowing Israeli jets to fly over the neighbouring country

      MENAOctober 28, 2024
      Turkish-backed Syrian fighters preparing rockets to be fired towards SDF-controlled areas in north-eastern Syria. AFP
      Turkey strikes suspected Kurdish militant targets in Syria and Iraq

      The armed group said hit on defence company Tuas was a warning and message to Turkey

      MENAOctober 25, 2024
      Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaking to the press in Kuwait City on Tuesday. AFP
      Iran says neighbours will not allow their 'soil and airspace' for attack

      Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said it had received assurance from countries in the region

      MENAOctober 22, 2024
      A Kurdish man shows his inked finger while voting at a polling station during Iraq's Kurdistan regional parliamentary election in Sulaimaniya, Iraq, on Sunday. Reuters
      What are Iraqi Kurds voting for in the long overdue parliamentary elections?

      The vote was postponed for two years due to internal political disputes

      MENAOctober 20, 2024
      Israeli security forces secure a road near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house in Caesarea on Saturday. AP
      Play00:53
      Drone launched at Benjamin Netanyahu's home in central Israel

      The Prime Minister was not in the area, his spokesman said

      MENAOctober 19, 2024
      Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks at a press conference with his Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad, part of his regional tour. AFP
      Indirect Iran-US talks 'on hold', Foreign Minister Araghchi says

      Iranian minister meets Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdul Salam in Muscat

      MENAOctober 14, 2024
      Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said the country will respond to an attack by Israel. AFP
      Iran's Foreign Minister to visit Saudi Arabia as Tehran braces for Israeli attack

      His visit is part of a regional tour amid high tension in the Middle East

      MENAOctober 08, 2024
      Esmail Qaani was appointed as the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Quds Force in 2020. Reuters
      Was Tehran's Esmail Qaani the target of Israeli strike on Beirut?

      Tehran say Quds Force commander is in 'good health', but sources in Beirut do not rule out Qaani being harmed

      MENAOctober 07, 2024
      Iranians celebrate on a street after Tehran's attack on Israel on Tuesday evening. AFP
      From exploding pagers to Iranian missiles: How Israel's war on Hezbollah escalated

      A fortnight of intense escalation saw retaliatory border strikes with Hezbollah turn into an open-ended war that threatens to drag in Iran

      MENAOctober 01, 2024
      Israeli soldiers during a raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank, on Wednesday. AFP
      Israeli strikes kill at least nine Palestinians in West Bank

      Foreign Minister Israel Katz calls for evictions to make way for raids

      MENAAugust 28, 2024
      Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian announcing his cabinet selection at the Iranian Parliament in Tehran. Reuters
      Who are the key ministers in Iran's new government?

      Major policy changes not expected under newly installed cabinet

      MENAAugust 22, 2024
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