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Almost 2 million Iranian pilgrims head into Iraq for Arbaeen

AFP | At the border town of Mehran between Iran and Iraq, a sea of pilgrims surges forwards, en route to one of the biggest...

Israel accuses Syria, Iran of orchestrating Gaza rocket fire

AFP | The Israeli army accused the Syrian government on Saturday of ordering Palestinian militants in Gaza supported by Iran to fire dozens of rockets...

The richest yet the least influential dead man

Imran Jan | Mohammad Bin Salman, referred to by his initials MBS, in March pledged to invest $400 bn in the United States in ten...

Turkey to host Syria summit with Russian, French, German leaders

AFP | The leaders of Turkey, Russia, France and Germany meet in Istanbul on Saturday to try and find a lasting political solution to the...

In Israeli-occupied Golan, Druze struggle over first ever vote

AFP | An election poster at the entrance to Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights offers a rare reminder that the Druze community is...

After killing, Saudi Arabia’s formidable PR machine shows cracks

AFP | When the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001 by 19 hijackers -- 15 of them from Saudi Arabia -- the kingdom...

Macron, Trump confer ahead of Istanbul Syria summit

AFP | French President Emmanuel spoke by phone Thursday with US leader Donald Trump about strategy ahead of a four-way summit on Syria in Istanbul...

Displaced to the desert, Syrians struggle to eke out living

AFP | In a desert camp along Syria's border with Jordan, nearly 50,000 displaced people struggle to eke out a living. There are no clinics,...

Has the US policy in the Middle East failed? – John Glaser

John Glaser | The ongoing controversy surrounding the murder of a dissident Saudi journalist and Saudi Arabia’s brutal bombing campaign of a largely defenseless neighbouring...

Qatar may benefit from Khashoggi fallout: analysts

AFP | Global diplomatic fallout from the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia's Istanbul consulate may help Qatar in its political stand-off with...

Iran’s Rouhani: Khashoggi murder unthinkable ‘without US backing’

AFP | Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's "heinous murder" would have been unthinkable "without US backing," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday. "I don't think...

Will the ‘Saudi Help’, help us? – Mir Mohammad Ali Khan

Mir Mohammad Ali Khan | I have never written an article so quickly after a deal has taken place. The only reason I am forced...
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