Four more Saudi women activists freed pending trial
AFP | Saudi Arabia on Thursday released at least four more detained women activists pending trial, campaigners said, bringing the total number of women provisionally...
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State group’s elusive leader
AFP | Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who purportedly appeared for the first time in five years in an IS propaganda video released...
Since When Did Russia Get The Right To Speak On Syria’s Behalf?
Andrew Korybko | The democratically elected and legitimate government of the Syrian Arab Republic has its own international representatives and doesn't need Russia to put...
Iran sanctions, unrest hit Mideast growth: IMF
AFP | US sanctions on Iran, rising unrest in the Middle East and North Africa and oil price volatility are dragging regional economic growth, the...
Yazidis to accept IS rape survivors, not their children
AFP | Children born to Yazidi women as a result of rape by the militant Islamic State group fighters will not be permitted to join...
Awakening from decades-long coma ‘very rare’: experts
AFP | The case of a woman from the United Arab Emirates who regained consciousness after a 27-year coma-like state provoked by a brain injury...
There for Palestine: Qatar opens prosthetic facility in war-torn Gaza
News Desk | Qatar opened up its first prosthetic hospital and a disability rehab centre in the Gaza Strip on Monday, 12th May, overcoming obstacles that...
King restores citizenship of 551 Bahrainis after global outcry
AFP | Bahrain's king Sunday ordered the citizenship of 551 Bahrainis to be restored after his country was harshly criticised by the UN and rights...
IS claims attack on Saudi security base
AFP | Four men were killed Sunday in an attack on a Saudi security services base north of the capital Riyadh, official media said, as...
In war-torn Syria, an ancestor of Notre-Dame still stands
AFP | An arched entrance flanked by two towers, elaborate carvings and a broad-aisled nave: a 5th century limestone church in northwestern Syria is the...
Egypt bucks trend with vote to extend Sisi rule
AFP | In a referendum bucking the trend of the region's mini-Arab Spring, Egyptians are to start voting Saturday on constitutional amendments that extend President...
Civil War: Seven killed in shelling in Syria
AFP | Regime shelling killed seven civilians in Syria's jihadist-controlled Idlib region on Thursday, in the latest violence to threaten a seven-month-old truce, a war monitor...