Defiant Saudi women abandon abaya
AFP | Her high heels clacking on marble tiles, a defiant Saudi woman turned heads and drew gasps as she strutted through a Riyadh mall...
More than 30 dead in stampede at Imam Hussain’s shrine
AFP | More than 30 pilgrims were killed and dozens injured Tuesday in a stampede at a major shrine in the Iraqi city of Karbala...
Annexing Jordan Valley: Netanyahu’s new campaign promise
AFP | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a deeply controversial pledge on Tuesday to annex the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank if...
War between ‘electronic armies’ further divides Iraq
AFP | Journalists, activists and researchers in Iraq are facing a wave of accusations and threats by shadowy online groups they suspect are linked to...
Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan in tatters as chief planner quits
AFP | Jason Greenblatt, a key architect of President Donald Trump's troubled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, announced his resignation Thursday. His departure places another question mark...
Pakistan all set to add 36 Mirage-V Combat Aircraft to its arsenal
News Desk | Pakistan Air Force will strike a deal with Egypt for Mirage-V Combat aircraft amid rising tensions with India on Kashmir issue. Egypt and...
Iran will further accelerate its nuclear processes: Deal with EU unlikely
President Hassan Rouhani said Iran will announce a new step in scaling back its nuclear commitments by Thursday despite a diplomatic push for relief...
Dubai’s economy is in turmoil, and it wont’t be getting better any time soon
AFP | A slowdown in Dubai's economy since 2014 is forecast to carry on through 2022 due to low oil prices, fallout from the US-China...
Yemen catastrophe: Hazards of Saudi interventionist policy
AFP | Saudi Arabia is confronting the perils of its combative foreign policy as it slides further into a military quagmire in Yemen, one of...
Iran will not hold any talks with US unless sanctions are lifted
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday ruled out holding any bilateral talks with the United States, saying the Islamic republic is opposed to such...
Attack us and we will strike deep inside Israel, Hezbollah says
AFP | Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah threatened Monday to hit "deep inside" Israel, a day after an exchange of fire on the Lebanese-Israeli border sparked...
More than 100 killed in air strike on Yemen prison: ICRC
AFP | More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in an airstrike by the Saudi-led military coalition on a detention centre in...