Turkey seeks nearly 150 arrests over Gulen ties: report
AFP | Turkish police on Friday launched nationwide raids to detain nearly 150 people, including military personnel, suspected of ties to the group blamed for...
What next for Syria’s Kurds?
AFP | Syria's Kurds have established an autonomous region during seven years of civil war, but the abrupt decision by their US ally to withdraw...
Broadway hits Iran with unique take on ‘Les Miserables’
AFP | Iranian theatre director Hossein Parsaee calls Victor Hugo's classic a "masterpiece without borders" but his groundbreaking production of "Les Miserables" that has hit...
CCTV footage shows men transporting ‘Khashoggi body parts’
AFP | A Turkish television station has broadcast CCTV footage showing men carrying cases and bags which it says contained slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's...
Iran says Afghan Taliban were in Tehran for peace talks
AFP | Iran said Monday that the Afghan Taliban have visited Tehran for a second round of peace talks in just a few days aimed...
FM Qureshi culminates his foreign visits revolving around Afghan peace process in Qatar
News Analysis | Shah Mahmood Qureshi met Qatari officials in Doha to discuss the developing situation in Afghanistan alongside other matters of mutual interest. Foreign...
Syrian army deploys to Manbij in new alliance with Kurds
AFP | Syrian troops deployed in support of Kurdish forces around a strategic northern city on Friday, in a shift of alliances hastened by last...
Russia & Israel: New rivals in Middle East? – M K Bhadrakumar
M K Bhadrakumar | It is over a month since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had announced that he was going to Moscow to meet...
Saudi king orders government reshuffle after Khashoggi fallout
AFP | Saudi Arabia's King Salman ordered a sweeping government reshuffle Thursday, replacing key security and political figures including the foreign minister, as the kingdom...
UAE reopens Damascus embassy after seven years
AFP | The United Arab Emirates reopened its embassy in Damascus Thursday, the latest sign of efforts to bring the Syrian government back into the...
Israel vows to block Palestinian bid to become full UN member
AFP | Israel has vowed to work with the United States to block a bid by the Palestinians for full membership in the United Nations,...
Efforts to return Syria’s Assad to Arab fold amount to hollow victory for autocrats – James M. Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | Two developments, the pending return of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to the Arab fold and protests in Sudan, Jordan, and Tunisia,...