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🇹🇳 - The head of Tunisia's main labor union resigns one month before the planned nationwide strike.

🇦🇲🇷🇺 - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan threatens to reclaim control of the railways run by Russian concessionaires.

🇸🇦🇾🇪 - The Saudi Foreign Ministry calls on Yemen's STC to withdraw from the areas it has recently conquered.

🇹🇷🇸🇾 - Turkish Deputy Trade Minister Özgür Volkan Ağar says exports to Syria have increased by 54% to $3 billion this year.

🇺🇸🇪🇺 - The US Department of State imposes a visa ban on a former EU commissioner allegedly involved in censorship.

🇸🇾 - The Syrian Information Ministry says communications with the SDF are currently "suspended."

🇸🇦🇾🇪 - The Saudi Foreign Ministry calls the STC's offensive in Yemen an "unjustified escalation."

🇺🇸🇮🇳🇨🇳 - The Chinese Foreign Ministry accuses the US of trying to hinder the improvement of Beijing's ties with India.

🇺🇸🇪🇺 - The EU "strongly condemns" the visa bans imposed by the US on several technology company regulators.

🇺🇸🇳🇬 - US President Donald Trump says a "powerful and deadly strike" has been launched against ISIS in Nigeria.

🇸🇦🇾🇪 - Local media report Saudi airstrikes in Hadramout, Yemen.

🇸🇾 - The Syrian Foreign Ministry says discussions with the SDF "have not yielded tangible results."

🇺🇸🇳🇬 - The US military confirms strikes were carried out against ISIS at the request of the Nigerian government.

🇮🇱🇸🇴 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recognizes Somaliland as an independent country.

🇸🇦🇾🇪 - Yemen's STC says Saudi airstrikes will not divert it from its goal.

🇸🇾 - A jihadist group claims responsibility for a deadly bombing at an Alawite mosque in Homs, Syria.

🇮🇱🇸🇴 - The Somalilander Foreign Ministry says it "warmly welcomes" Israel's decision to recognize the state.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli authorities say a Palestinian assailant killed two people in the north of the country.

🇸🇦🇾🇪 - The Yemeni government calls on the Saudi-led coalition to take "military measures" to support it.

🇮🇱🇸🇴 - The Somalian Foreign Ministry rejects Israel's "unlawful" recognition of Somaliland as an independent state.