Oil Prices at 17-year low as virus-hit oil sector struggles to survive

Oil prices extended losses in Asian trade Monday and languished at 17-year lows, with the coronavirus crisis escalating around the world and no end...

Why Middle East fails to achieve sustainable peace?

The Middle East has remained one of the most volatile and unstable places on the world stage. Throughout the history it has been entangled...

Coronavirus was a ‘creation of CIA biological weapon lab of the US’?

On March 10, 2020, a petition for information for Fort Detrick posted on the White House website. The petition listed on a series of conspicuous...

Bad day for Palestinians in bad times: Israel struck rockets in retaliation

Israel struck Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip late Friday in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave, Israel's military said. The army...

Coronavirus: UN hails ceasefires and resolutions by insurgents

The United Nations on Thursday hailed armed groups heeding its call for a ceasefire during the coronavirus crisis, as Security Council and General Assembly members...

US puts NEW sanctions on Iran, despite calls for relief

The US Treasury Department has slapped fresh sanctions on Iran, accusing several Iranian firms of aiding terrorism. Meanwhile, Tehran and the UN have called...

Can Covid-19 bring US and Iran closer?

The ongoing Covid-19 has exposed not only public health facilities in many countries, but also revealed complex manifestations of international politics. For the last three...

Iran is dying under US sanctions and China virus

Saadi Shirazi, one of the prominent Iranian poets of the medieval period, once wrote, “Extending a hand in the hour of need is the...

Coronavirus: Will the real world please stand up for refugees?

Indiscriminate in targeting its victims, the latest coronavirus (COVID-19) casts a very different light on the need to enforce international law governing wars as...

Jamal Khashoggi murder: Turkey charges 20 Saudis

Turkish prosecutors on Wednesday charged 20 suspects including two former top aides to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the brutal 2018 murder of...

Saudi Arabia struggles to escape Yemen quagmire

Five years after launching its much-criticised military intervention in Yemen, Saudi Arabia is stuck in a costly quagmire with no exit in sight while...

We will not accept help from ‘foreign forces’: declared Iran

A senior Iranian official Tuesday ruled out help from "foreign forces" to deal with the coronavirus epidemic after an offer from a France-based medical...