Fear of Covide-19 outbreak in 3 Arab countries, news of changes in US military to confront China

On Tuesday morning, International newspapers focused on the concerns of the spread of the Corona virus in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia's initiatives to hold talks with the Houthis, as well as the China-American crisis.

The Guardian: Fears of an outbreak of Covid 19 in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria

The Guardian newspaper talked about the fears of corona's spread in a number of countries in the Middle East and said: "Health officials and others fear that the numbers of people affected by the epidemic of corona in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria are much more than the official figures revealed by the three governments."

Officials, including bureaucrats, aid workers and international observers who spoke with the Guardian over the past week, say parts of Lebanon and Iraq in particular are likely to detain thousands of injured people, and that the lack of disclosure poses a major health risk for the next three months, Especially the areas that are actually outside the control of these countries.

Health officials say: the disease "coronavirus" is widespread in the areas of "Hezbollah" in Lebanon, and areas in central and southern Iraq and guarded by political groups affiliated with Iran.

It is believed that the worst scenario will be in Syria, where weak state structures, the displaced population of 7 million, and the fact that large parts of the country remain outside the control of the central government make controlling the spread of the virus almost impossible.

Land and air links between the three countries have also been severed, but there are deep concerns that large numbers of carriers of the virus were able to return before the borders were closed in mid-March.

Wall Street Journal: Saudi Arabia invites Houthi rebels for talks in Riyadh

The Wall Street Journal reported that Saudi Arabia was trying to hold talks with the Houthis and said: "A high-ranking Saudi official said that Saudi Arabia is holding daily talks with Houthi rebels allied with Iran in Yemen, and has invited Houthi representatives and the internationally recognized government in Yemen to peace talks in the kingdom.

The ambassador of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in Yemen, Muhammad al-Jaber, said: The proposal to hold talks to end the five-year war, which killed more than 100,000 people, is still on the table despite the escalation of violence at the weekend, and the Houthis have not yet responded to the offer.

The Washington Times: radical changes in the US Marine Corps with the goal of confronting China

Regarding the US-China crisis, the Washington Times said: "The Marine Corps plans to abandon its tanks, significantly reshape artillery batteries, replace its helicopter fleet, and take a host of other" root "steps in the most extensive US military reforms of the century - All this with the aim of preparing for a possible conflict in the twenty-first century with China.

Seventy-five years after storming the beaches in Iwo Jima, the Marine Corps leaders revealed a scheme this month, in which they concluded that the traditional approach to the branch no longer met the needs of the nation.

Chris Prose, chief strategy officer at Andorel Industries and a former director of staff for the Senate Armed Services Committee said that the Marine Corps we have been building for many years now is not increasingly consistent with the problems we will face in confronting China.

He added that there are reasons for this. The Marines have borne the brunt of many deployments abroad after the events of September 11, and they have been working to improve a variety of challenges.

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