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  The year 2022 was tough for the Middle East Because of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The USA and Russia jumped to get diplomatic engagement for their nation of this region and in between the food security crisis became worse. To fulfill the energy needs of Europe, the EU comes closer to middle eastern nations. And India also expanded their influence in this region, a bowl of energy. We cannot forget the QUAD, which is also impacting this region. In between world races, middle eastern countries are holding their autonomy and status tightly. The middle east is free from clashes and maintains peace to promote regional development. China's global diplomacy is also a notable point that is taking it to another level. After COVID-19, the major countries of the world do not want to take interest in the Middle East. As we had seen the US troops leaving Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya were also left with troops of Russian soldiers – Russia reduced their soldiers there. But the war between Ru...

  A group of four countries led by Canada has requested that Iran submit to arbitration to settle a dispute over its shooting down of a Ukrainian jet. Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 was hit by two missiles after taking off from Tehran on 8 January 2020. All 176 people on board died. Three days later, Iran admitted mistakenly shooting down the plane. The group, made up of Canada, Sweden, Ukraine and the UK, said it was taking "concrete action" against Iran. The four nations have been seeking reparations on behalf of the families of the victims - many of whom were citizens or residents of those countries. They accuse Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of having "unlawfully and intentionally" launched two surface-to-air missiles at the jet. Iran, for its part, said its air defences had been on high alert at the time of the incident after it fired ballistic missiles at two Iraqi military bases hosting US forces amid heightened tensions with the U...

  With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the horror of nuclear war has returned to the forefront of public discourse after being absent for decades, underscoring the breakdown of the Cold War-era system of international security. The military impasse has stoked concerns that Moscow may turn to its nuclear arsenal in an effort to break the deadlock and forward its attack. The five recognised nuclear weapon states and permanent members of the UN Security Council are Britain, China, France, and Russia. According to Camille Grand, a former NATO deputy secretary-general, "it's the first time a nuclear power has used its standing to wage a conventional war beneath the shadow cast by nuclear weapons." Asserting that the use of the weapons is still "improbable," he told AFP, "One could have assumed that rogue states would take such an attitude, but suddenly it's one of the two big nuclear powers, a member of the UN Security Council." The moral a...

  In its most recent prisoner exchange with Russian forces , Ukraine claimed on Wednesday that it had managed to win the release of 64 Ukrainian military personnel as well as a US citizen. Andriy Yermak, the chief of staff for the Ukrainian presidency, posted on social media that "64 servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who battled in Donetsk and Lugansk — in particular participated in the defence of the city of Bakhmut — are heading home." Additionally, Suedi Murekezi, a US citizen who aided our people, may have been let free. Russian government-run According to the TASS news agency, Murekezi was detained in June in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk and accused of participating in anti-Russian demonstrations and inciting "ethnic hate." Murekezi was born in Rwanda and immigrated to the US with his family in 1994, according to TASS, citing his lawyer. The attorney denied that his client was a combatant and stated that Murekezi worked in a nightclub in...

Ilya Yashin, a member of the opposition, was found guilty on Friday by a Russian court of disseminating "false information" on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. This is the most well-known conviction under the new law that makes criticising the campaign illegal. The 39-year-old Moscow councillor is merely the most recent in a long line of Kremlin opponents who have been marginalised in recent years, a crackdown that became more severe when the crisis started in February. An AFP reporter from the court reported that Yashin, who was handcuffed and wearing a white sweatshirt, grinned and waved to his family throughout the hearing. Yashin had committed a crime, according to judge Oksana Goryunova, by spreading "knowingly false information about Russia's Armed Forces." He had called the suspected killing of residents in Bucha, a town close to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, where victims were discovered after Russian forces withdrew, a "massacr...

  The comments by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian come after months of confusing messaging from Iran about the weapons shipment, as   Russia sends the drones   slamming into Ukrainian energy infrastructure and civilian targets. “We gave a limited number of drones to Russia months before the Ukraine war,” Amirabdollahian told reporters after a meeting in Tehran. Previously, Iranian officials had denied arming Russia in its war on Ukraine. Just earlier this week, Iran’s Ambassador to the U.N. Amir Saeid Iravani called the allegations “totally unfounded” and reiterated Iran’s position of neutrality in the war. The U.S. and its Western allies on the Security Council have called on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to investigate if Russia has used Iranian drones to attack civilians in Ukraine.  Even so, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has vaguely boasted of providing drones to the world’s top powers. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ex...

 Russia's predicament in Ukraine has prompted Moscow to turn to Tehran for stocks of precision-guided weapons . Its own arsenals are fast running out. There have been a number of instances where coastal defence and air defence missiles have been used by the Russians to strike at land targets in Ukraine - a role for which they are not best suited. Transport flights have been monitored heading from Iran to Russia. Reports from US sources suggest that Iranian trainers from the IRGC - the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps - have deployed to a base in Crimea to teach Russian personnel how to operate the systems. Wreckage from drones that have been shot down - both Iranian Shahed-131 loitering munitions (colloquially known as kamikaze drones) and the larger Shahed-136 - has been analysed. There is no doubt that Tehran, despite its denials, is compensating for a significant shortfall in Russia's arsenal.  This is clearly not good news for Ukraine. While a significant number of the Ir...