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Turkey said on Sunday its armed forces "neutralised" 32 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in military operations in northern Syria.

The head of Jordan’s Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission (CARC) announced on Sunday that no decision has been made to resume flights from Amman to Damascus. 

More than 100 fighters have been killed over the past two days in fierce clashes in northern Syria between Turkish-backed armed factions and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Sunday.

Syria's new Islamist rulers said on Sunday that U.S. sanctions on Syria were an obstacle to the war-torn country's rapid recovery and urged Washington to lift them during a visit by Syrian officials to Qatar.

The recent surge in attacks against Israel by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen demands a strong and unified response from the international community. 

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni flew to Florida to meet with President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday, as the key European leader sought to buttress ties with Trump before his inauguration on Jan. 20.

Bahrain clinched the title of the Arabian Gulf Football Cup, also known as Khaleeji Zain 26, after a dramatic 2-1 victory over Oman in the final match held on Saturday at the Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium in Kuwait.

The Israeli military announced on Sunday it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen before it could penetrate Israeli airspace. The attack was later claimed by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the extension of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) mandate until January 31, 2026. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Russian and North Korean forces suffered heavy losses in fighting in Russia's southern Kursk region.

The Moroccan Treasury raised over $700 million in its first bond auction of 2025, achieving its largest issuance since February 2024. The operation attracted robust investor interest, with demand exceeding $1.2 billion, marking a five-month high.

Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, Naïm Kassem, delivered on Saturday a speech commemorating the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian general killed in a U.S. drone strike on January 3, 2020, in Baghdad.