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Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi (L) and Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan (R) in Astana during an official state visit in July 2018 /AFP

April 4th, 2019 - 10:53 GMT

Oil and Infrastructure: How The UAE is Looking East to Invest in Central Asia, Isolate Iran and Inadvertently Augment China’s Belt and Road

Behind the scenes, and for the most part outside of the headlines, a competitive rivalry is taking place in Central Asia.

A woman pushes her elderly husband in a wheelchair in opposition-held Hamouria, in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on April 26, 2017. (AFP/Abdulmonam Eassa)

April 27th, 2017 - 11:00 GMT

Russia is killing lots of Syrian civilians again

Security personnel and residents walk at the site of a car bomb blast that targeted the CARE International compound at Share Naw in Kabul. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)

April 14th, 2017 - 09:00 GMT

International conference on Afghanistan to be held without US

Syrian children in hospital after an apparent chemical attack in Idlib, Syria. (AFP/Mohamed al-Bakour)

April 5th, 2017 - 07:00 GMT

As many as 100 dead in Syrian chemical attack that provoked outrage

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (C) meets with representatives of Syria’s opposition in Moscow on January 27, 2017. (AFP)

March 30th, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

Geneva peace talks: Syrian opposition meets Russian delegation

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a speech during a press conference in Istanbul, February 10, 2017. (AFP/Ozan Kose)

March 29th, 2017 - 03:00 GMT

Guterres at the Arab Summit: No 'Plan B' to a two-state solution in Palestine

Mohammed Alloush, a Syrian opposition commander, at the Astana peace talks in January 2017. (AFP)

March 27th, 2017 - 04:00 GMT

Syrian opposition pessimistic about possibility for progress at peace talks

A Syrian family cleans the rubble from their destroyed house in Karm al-Jabal neighbourhood in the Northern Syrian city of Aleppo on March 9, 2017. (AFP/Joseph Eid)

March 13th, 2017 - 12:00 GMT

Third round of Syrian peace talks in Astana to begin Tuesday

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet to discuss Syria with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AFP/File)

March 6th, 2017 - 10:00 GMT

Netanyahu to meet Putin, says Iran seeks permanent base of operations in Syria

Responsibility for the Saturday attacks was later claimed by the al-Nusra Front group.(AFP/File)

February 25th, 2017 - 09:52 GMT

Blasts hit Syrian city of Homs killing 42 as peace talks are on-going in Geneva

Syria's United Nations ambassador and head of the government delegation Bashar al-Ja’afari (2nd L) leaves after a meeting with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura during the first day of a new round of Syria peace talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 23, 2017. (AFP/File)

February 23rd, 2017 - 01:53 GMT

Low expectations as Syrian peace talks kick off in Geneva

Chief opposition negotiator Mohammad Alloush (C) of the Jaish al-Islam looks on during the second session of Syria peace talks at the Rixos President Hotel in Astana, on February 16, 2017. (AFP/Stanislav Filippov)

February 20th, 2017 - 08:00 GMT

Astana talks: Opposition says Syrian government attacks are sabotaging ceasefire

Erdogan linked the resolution of the Syrian crisis with confronting 'terrorism', especially the Daesh group inside Syria. (AFP/File)

February 18th, 2017 - 12:00 GMT

Erdogan sets sights on Manbij following liberation of al-Bab, Syria