Pope Francis in historic Arabian Peninsula visit
AFP | Pope Francis is set for a historic trip to the UAE, the first-ever papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula, as he seeks to...
Catholicism in the Arabian Peninsula
AFP | Pope Francis's three-day trip to the United Arab Emirates Sunday marks the first time a pontiff has ever visited the conservative Muslim Arabian...
For Yemenis, shaky truce not much different from war
AFP | Yemeni medics scrambled to save a 20-year-old woman after a sniper's bullet tore a gash in her scalp in the port city of...
Displaced Syrian children sift through trash to buy bread
AFP | Outside a camp for the displaced in northwest Syria, 15-year-old Sabaa al-Jassim hacked away at a mountain of trash hoping to find scraps...
Support for US Iran policy out of left field: China dramatically reduces trade with Tehran – Dr James M Dorsey
Dr James M Dorsey | China has dramatically reduced its trade with Iran in line with US sanctions, raising questions whether Iran will remain committed to...
French jihadists in Syria may be allowed home, Paris says
AFP | France on Tuesday opened the door to repatriating more than a hundred jihadists being held in Syria, in a marked change in stance...
Khomeini: father of Iran’s Islamic Republic
AFP | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was an austere and charismatic cleric who became an icon of the 21st century for standing against the West and...
‘Flight of the revolution’: the Ayatollah’s return to Iran
AFP | In the dead of night on February 1, 1979, Iran's revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took off for Tehran from Paris onboard a...
Iran accuses France of ‘destabilising’ region
AFP | Iran has accused France of being a destabilising force in the region after its foreign minister threatened new sanctions against Tehran over its...
IS ‘caliphate’ in Syria dead within a month: commander
AFP | Military operations against the Islamic State group in Syria are wrapping up and the last pockets of the jihadists' self-proclaimed "caliphate" will be...
What Khashoggi means for Americans everywhere? – Imran Jan
Imran Jan | A friend of mine once asked me why I wanted to become an American citizen. “The government that looks out for its...
Into the arena for camel wrestling in Turkey
AFP | Erol Bilgin has high hopes. His camel, Kara Elmas (Black Diamond), might not have won the beauty contest the day before, but it...