🇸🇾🇦🇪 — Syria’s foreign minister reaffirms the country’s “solid” ties with the UAE (X)

🇰🇼 — Kuwait Petroleum Corporation confirms that a drone attack caused a fire at the Shuwaikh oil sector (KUNA)

🇨🇳🇫🇷 — France’s foreign ministry says a French national has been executed in China on drug charges (statement)

🇮🇷🇵🇰 — Pakistan’s government has sharply raised fuel prices despite acting as a mediator for the war in Iran (Nikkei Asia)

🇮🇳🇮🇷 — India’s energy ministry acknowledges that the country bought crude oil from Iran to counter “supply disruptions” (X)

🇽🇰 — Kosovo’s president vacates her office amid a deep political crisis with no successor in sight (Balkan Insight)

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — A US official says the last crew member of the downed F-15 fighter jet has been recovered in Iran (Al Jazeera)

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — Trump threatens to strike power plants and bridges in Iran on Monday (Truth)

🇨🇿🇲🇲 — Czechia’s Aircraft Industries circumvented sanctions and delivered two aircraft to Myanmar’s junta (CIR)

🇭🇺🇷🇸 — Hungary’s prime minister says he has called a defense council after explosives were found on a pipeline in Serbia (X)

🇸🇾🇦🇪 — The GCC condemns acts of vandalism targeting the UAE’s embassy in Damascus, Syria (statement)

🇦🇲🇷🇺 — Armenia’s parliamentary speaker warns that the country will leave the CSTO if Russia raises gas prices (Interfax)

🇮🇷🇴🇲 — Oman’s foreign ministry says it discussed the smooth transit of vessels in the Strait of Hormuz with Iran (X)

🇸🇾🇺🇦 — Ukraine’s president says he met with Syria’s president to discuss security and development opportunities (Telegram)

🇨🇳🇷🇺 — China’s foreign minister says the country is ready to work with Russia to ease tensions in the Middle East (Xinhua)

🇩🇿🇮🇷 — The war in the Middle East forces Algeria to balance its ties with Iran while leveraging its role as a gas supplier (FP)

🇭🇺🇷🇺 — Hungary’s main opposition leader pledges to take a “pragmatic” approach toward Russia if elected (AP)

🇮🇶🇺🇸 — Sources say the FBI is negotiating the release of an American journalist kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraq (Le Monde)

Happy Easter.

🇮🇱🇱🇧🇺🇳 — UNFIL threatens to return fire if Israeli forces and Hezbollah continue to target peacekeepers (Telegram)

🇦🇫 — The Taliban-led commerce ministry says Afghanistan’s imports from Central Asia rose by 43% in 2025 (BNA)