US orders embassy staff to leave Iran at first notice amidst growing tensions

AFP | The United States Wednesday ordered non-emergency staff evacuated from its Baghdad embassy due to an "imminent" threat from Iranian-linked Iraqi militias, but President...

Life comes back to bookshelves in Iraq

AFP | Watheq Mahmud is pursuing an advanced engineering degree but the textbooks he needs are often missing in his native Mosul, the Iraqi city...

Huthi attack led to closing Saudi oil pipelines, Trump warns of military action

AFP | Drone attacks claimed by Iran-aligned Yemen rebels shut down one of Saudi Arabia's major oil pipelines Tuesday, further ratcheting up Gulf tensions after...

US-Iran tensions: Mike Pompeo clarifies US does not “Seek a War with Iran”

News Desk | US Secretary of State said on Tuesday that US “fundamentally does not seek a war with Iran” despite deploying its B-52 nuclear...

A potential confrontation

Ayaz Ahmed | Last Sunday, the Trump administration threateningly said that it was deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and a bomber task...

Sabotage attempt at Saudi oil tankers alarmed authorities

AFP | It came as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo scrapped a planned visit to Moscow to head to Brussels instead for talks with...

Trump refutes plan of sending troops to counter Iran but doesn’t discard the idea

News Analysis | U.S President Donald Trump has snubbed New York Times for reporting that the administration is forming up nearly 120,000 U.S troops to...

Forced hijab: Will Iranians ever accept it?

AFP | Clashes erupted between Iranian students at Tehran University on Monday during a demonstration against the enforcement of wearing hijab or Islamic veil, media...

Afghan cuisine filling Turkish bellies

AFP | When Afghan businessman Haji Yakup Burhan fled the violence of his home country 30 years ago, he brought with him his family -...

Al-Qaeda wants Idlib defended from foreign invasion

AFP | The head of Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate in a video released Sunday urged supporters to "take up weapons" to defend his group's bastion...

Art and dance returns to Syria

AFP | More than a year after the Islamic State group fled, Syrian boys and girls, are finally back on stage - bobbing to the...

US hammers last nail in coffin and buries Palestinian peacemaking efforts

AFP | On May 14, 2018 United States moved its Israel embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing the disputed city as the Jewish state's capital, since then...
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