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....

Insurgencies in Iran, driven by poverty and discrimination

Fatemeh Aman | The Iranian government has long accused some of its neighboring states of using terrorism and insurgency to destabilize the country. There may...

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...

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...

After IS, Mosul tackles another terror: super-resistant bacteria

AFP | Explosives left behind by the Islamic State group in Iraq's Mosul took 12-year-old Abdallah's left leg, but another kind of terror may cost...

Algerians eager for change but wary of new Arab Spring

AFP | Massive protests that have gripped Algeria might resemble another Arab Spring but those seeking democratic change are mindful of history and want to...

French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain killed in Syria: wife

AFP | Prominent French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain was killed last month, his wife told AFP Tuesday after fleeing the last redoubt of the Islamic State...
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