Iran says talks in Qatar on implementing MoU with US have concluded

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Qatar's Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Qatari and Pakistani mediators held separate meetings with US and Iranian negotiators in Doha on Tuesday, with the talks making positive progress on issues related to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

In a post on X, the spokesperson said the parties agreed to continue discussions in the coming period, with the next round of talks to be scheduled at the earliest possible opportunity following the funeral processions for Iran's slain supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli strikes on 28 February.

Iraqi security sources said on early Thursday an explosive-laden drone targeted a camp belonging to an Iranian Kurdish opposition group in the Koy Sanjaq district, east of Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region, causing a fire at the camp.

There was no immediate information on casualties or who was responsible for the attack. 

Iranian Kurdish opposition group camps in northern Iraq have come under frequent attacks.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said Wednesday that Tehran would use some of its frozen assets in Qatar to purchase goods needed by the country following talks in Doha. Under the memorandum of understanding that halted the war between Iran and the United States, Washington agreed to make available Iran's frozen or restricted assets as part of the agreement's implementation.

It remains unclear how the mechanism for releasing and using the funds would work, or when it would take effect.

"During the meetings with Qatari officials, including the Central Bank, a number of issues related to the expenditure of part of the initial six billion dollars were reviewed," Gharibabadi said, according to the IRNA state news agency.

"It was agreed that, based on the needs communicated by our country, the required goods would be purchased and made available to Iran."

The amount Gharibabadi mentioned refers to part of Iranian oil revenues transferred from South Korea to restricted accounts in Qatar since 2023. He also suggested the money would be used to purchase US goods, including agricultural products such as soybeans.

The Palestinian technocratic committee tasked with administering post-war Gaza said Wednesday it concluded two days of "highly productive" talks in Cyprus on easing humanitarian suffering and advancing plans to rebuild the territory.

The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) said on X that it held "a series of working meetings in Cyprus with experts and advisers of the Board of Peace, the Office of the High Representative for Gaza (Nikolai Mladenov) and the Tony Blair Institute".

The talks focused on efforts to "relieve the suffering" of Gazans, the committee said, including through projects that "can be done immediately".

Participants also reviewed plans for reconstruction, security and governance, while developing a framework to ensure transparency and accountability for international donors.

An Israeli drone carried out a second airstrike on the southern Lebanese town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa Tuesday afternoon, less than half an hour after an earlier strike targeted the area.

At the same time, a team from the Islamic Risala Scout Association and the Islamic Health Society came under fire from Israeli soldiers on the outskirts of Nabatieh al-Fawqa while attempting to extinguish a fire that broke out in the earlier strike, which targeted a park vehicle.

No casualties were reported.

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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Wednesday finalised the formation of the country's first post-Assad-era parliament, which is set to hold its first session next week in a step seen as a test for the country's transition.

After toppling longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 after more than 13 years of civil war, the new authorities dissolved Syria's rubber-stamp legislature and adopted a temporary constitutional declaration to cover a five-year transition period.

In a process that began in October 2025 and has been criticised as undemocratic, local committees appointed by the electoral commission -- which was appointed by Sharaa -- began selecting two-thirds of the 210 members of a new parliament, with the president to appoint the remaining third.

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