Israel-India nexus: History reveals an Anti-Islamist alliance

News Desk | The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a Sweden-based think tank, released its annual report that revealed India as the world’s second...

Yazidi doctor soldiers on in mental battle against IS

AFP | The military fight against the Islamic State group may be nearing an end, but one Yazidi doctor treating survivors is soldiering on against...

3,000 surrender from IS Syria bastion as end nears

AFP | Around 3,000 Islamic State members have surrendered from the group's last holdout in Syria, Kurdish-led forces said Tuesday, as air raids and shelling...

Israel shuts Al Aqsa mosque after unrest

AFP | Unrest at a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site led Israeli police to shut off access to it on Tuesday after several weeks of...

Pakistan-India standoff: The role of Israel, US, and Beyond – Part-I

Sabtain Ahmed Dar | On 14th February, hardly a few hours had passed since the Pulwama attack and no thorough investigation had been done by...

Russia and OPEC: convenience but no marriage

AFP | Two years after they teamed up to take back control of oil markets, the alliance between Russia and OPEC continues to be effective....

Iran trusts Imran Khan but will verify the promise – M K Bhadrakumar

M K Bhadrakumar | Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani received a phone call from Pakistan PM Imran Khan late in the evening on March 9, which...

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...