The Trump administration is pushing to resolve the Western Sahara conflict through Morocco’s autonomy plan, amid tentative Algerian engagement and Polisario insistence on a referendum.

U.S. envoy Mark Savaya is set to visit Iraq with a high-stakes agenda focused on curbing Iran-backed militias, reforming the banking sector, cutting off illicit financing, and influencing the formation of the next government to strengthen state authority and ensure stability.

U.S. officials are pressuring Iraq’s Coordination Framework to form a government free of armed factions and strengthen state institutions amid regional stakes.

Netanyahu’s Gaza occupation plan faces military resistance and warnings from former Israeli security chiefs who say continued war risks defeat and urge a political solution.

Efforts to label the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group have repeatedly failed due to legal, political, and diplomatic complexities.