Middle East Minute for November 20, 2020 - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Catch up on some of this week's biggest headlines around the region with Al-Monitor. Egypt detained members of a human rights group, srael launched air strikes targeting Iranian and Syrian positions, and the US announced troop withdrawals in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi attends the funeral of the Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards, and the Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport, in Baghdad, Iraq, January 4, 2020. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani - RC209E9U6CIS

Iraqi PM quietly working to keep US troops in country

Jack Detsch

President Sisi

The Takeaway: Business As Usual: US-Egypt alliance finds its center

Andrew Parasiliti

Elizabeth Hagedorn

Joe Snell

Andrew Parasiliti , Elizabeth Hagedorn , Joe Snell

U.S. troops are seen behind the Turkish border walls during a joint U.S.-Turkey patrol in northern Syria, as it is pictured from near the Turkish town of Akcakale, Turkey, September 8, 2019. REUTERS/Murad Sezer - RC123ADD7730

'Majority' of US troops depart Syria

Jack Detsch

BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images

Stream of Afghan asylum seekers reported in eastern Turkey

Diego Cupolo