Netanyahu on clearer path to victory in close Israel vote: exit polls

AFP | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared best placed to form a governing coalition on Wednesday after high-stakes Israeli elections, exit polls showed but remained...

Pak-Bahrain relations: Strengthening bilateral ties to promote trade & investment

News Desk | On Monday, Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain, H.E Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Bin Mohamed Al Khalifa landed in Pakistan for...

Israel votes with Netanyahu’s future at stake

AFP | Israelis voted on Tuesday in a high-stakes election that will decide whether to extend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's long right-wing tenure despite corruption...

Indian, Israel’s leaders show moral bankruptcy: PM Khan

News Desk | Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday expressed his concern over the extent leaders of Israel and India would go to secure their...

US bars entry to 16 Saudis over Khashoggi killing

AFP | The US State Department Monday barred entry to 16 Saudi nationals over what it described as their role in the murder of journalist...

Erdogan’s party to demand total recount of Istanbul ballots

AFP | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party said on Sunday it was demanding a recount of all ballots cast in Istanbul, the country’s economic...

Iran to put US military on the terrorist list if US blacklists IRGC

News Analysis | After the news of U.S ambitions to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as terrorist organization emerged in the international media...

Poverty, repression in shadow of Azerbaijan’s shiny new skyline

AFP | In a crowded Baku street, Gyulya Akparova talks proudly about the major transformation of Azerbaijan and its thousand-year-old capital dotted with glittering skyscrapers...

US to declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terrorist group: WSJ

AFP | The United States will designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization, an unprecedented move that would ramp up pressure on the elite...

Middle Eastern protests challenge debilitating Gulf counterrevolution – Dr. James M Dorsey

Dr. James M Dorsey | Much of the Middle East’s recent turmoil stems from internecine Middle Eastern rivalries spilling onto third country battlefields and Saudi...

IS ‘caliphate’ exodus overwhelms east Syria hospitals

AFP | Young children nursing severe facial burns, others suffering from malnutrition -- an exodus of jihadist families and civilians from the Islamic State group's...

Economic reform in the Gulf: Who benefits, really? – James Dorsey

James M Dorsey | Leaders like the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Salman and Mohammed bin Zayed, quickly...