Iran’s Rouhani seeks to counter US pressure on first Iraq visit
AFP | Iran's President Hassan Rouhani hit back Monday against pressure from the "aggressor" United States on Iraq to limit ties with its neighbour, during...
Turkey tumbles into recession as polls loom
AFP | Turkey's economy entered its first recession in a decade, official data showed on Monday, just weeks before President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government faces...
Istanbul police fire tear gas at banned women’s day rally
AFP | Istanbul police fired tear gas Friday at thousands of women who took to the city's central avenue on International Women's Day in defiance...
‘Never-ending’ numbers in last IS scrap shock US-backed fighters
AFP | US-backed fighters have been hoping for weeks that the final day has come for the Islamic State group's "caliphate", but its last tiny...
Iran and North Korea highlight pitfalls of Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ strategy – James M. Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | Donald J. Trump’s hitherto failed ‘maximum pressure’ approach to Iran, as well as for that matter North Korea, begs the question...
After IS, Mosul tackles another terror: super-resistant bacteria
AFP | Explosives left behind by the Islamic State group in Iraq's Mosul took 12-year-old Abdallah's left leg, but another kind of terror may cost...
Algerians eager for change but wary of new Arab Spring
AFP | Massive protests that have gripped Algeria might resemble another Arab Spring but those seeking democratic change are mindful of history and want to...
French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain killed in Syria: wife
AFP | Prominent French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain was killed last month, his wife told AFP Tuesday after fleeing the last redoubt of the Islamic State...
IS-backed Boko Haram faction may have new chief: sources
AFP | The leader of an Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram may have been replaced, sources say, against a backdrop of speculation as to...
Yemen, Saudis, UAE accuse Huthis of breaking pullback deal
AFP | Yemen's government and its Saudi and Emirati backers are accusing Huthi rebels of refusing to abide by a deal agreed two weeks ago...
Iran abides by nuclear treaty even after the U.S sanction: Why?
News Analysis | Yukiya Amano, head of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) while briefing the board of governors of the biggest nuclear watchdog, has stated...
Qatar says arms purchases ‘none of Saudi’s business’
AFP | Qatar on Monday told rival Saudi Arabia not to meddle in its potential arms purchases from Russia, as the Gulf state weighs the...