Middle East Experience

World number one Aryna Sabalenka slumped to a 6-3, 6-2 loss against Denmark's Clara Tauson in the last 16 of the Dubai Championships on Wednesday, as Jasmine Paolini's title defence came to a painful end.Sabalenka, who beat the 38th-ranked Tauson on her way to last month's Australian Open final, suffered a second straight premature exit after losing in her opening match in Qatar a week ago.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Sabalenka thrashed in Dubai as Paolini's title defence ends

Egypt's antiquities authority says it has found the ancient tomb of King Thutmose II, the first royal burial to be located since the famed discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.The tomb, discovered near the Valley of the Kings in Luxor in southern Egypt, belonged to King Thutmose II of the 18th dynasty, who lived nearly 3,500 years ago.Thutmose II was an ancestor to Tutankhamun himself, and his half-sister and queen consort was Pharaoh Hatshepsut.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Egypt unveils first ancient royal tomb since Tutankhamun

At least seven civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed on Thursday when unexploded munitions ignited at a house in northwestern Syria, a war monitor said.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the deadly blast a day after another organisation said two-thirds of Syrians risked being killed or wounded by unexploded ordnance."Seven civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed when leftover munitions stored inside a house" in Idlib province exploded, the Observatory said.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Seven civilians killed in Syria UXO blast: monitor

A crackdown on smuggling operations between Lebanon and Syria has intensified since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Syria arrests Hezbollah-linked smugglers in Damascus: What to know

This state inquiry would not have needed to get into politically risky subjects like the October 7 disaster, but rather could have been narrowly limited to international law and war issues.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Could a state inquiry have blocked, frozen the ICC warrants against PM, Gallant? - analysis

International law and war state inquiry and faster and more frequent publication of IDF probes into the war are Israel’s main shields in its legal toolbox to hold back the lawfare tsunami
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Gilad Noam: Israel’s czar for holding back the war crimes tsunami at ICJ, ICC, in foreign states

There was nothing Hamas could do to hide these facts and images on Thursday, and at least for one day, almost the entire world remembered who is a terrorist and who is a victim. 
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Bibas family's return unmasks Hamas's brutal terror ideology

The law passed with a large majority and was supported by an array of MKs from both the coalition and opposition.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Is the UNRWA ban in east Jerusalem another ‘Israblof’? - analysis

‘UNRWA is facing collapse; we are witnessing the agency’s coup de grace’ warned UNRWA’s media advisor, which featured antisemitic tropes and accusations of corruption.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: UNRWA official in webinar with Hamas, PFLP members: ‘UNRWA is a victim of October 7’

Data from shipping analytics firm Kpler suggests Iran is offloading more crude from its floating storage off the coast of Malaysia and Singapore.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Why Iran's oil exports are surging to China despite Trump's 'maximum pressure'