After driving ban ends, Saudi Women taste thrill of speed
AFP | Donning a helmet inside a pearl silver sports sedan, Rana Almimoni skids and drifts around a Riyadh park, engine roaring, tires screeching and...
Time is running out and Iran still has no dependable option to come out of the crisis
News Analysis | Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged the French President Emmanuel Macron to keep up the promises made in the nuclear deal while talking...
Russia-Turkey alliance surviving Idlib test — for now
AFP | Russia and Turkey are in intense negotiations to ensure the rebel-held province of Idlib does not become a breaking point in their alliance...
Four questions on Iran’s legal challenge to US sanctions
AFP | Iran's legal challenge against renewed sanctions by the United States goes before the UN's International Court of Justice on Monday. Here are four key...
Bitter pills: Erdogan’s possible remedies for Turkey crisis
AFP | The crash in the Turkish lira sparked by US sanctions has left President Recep Tayyip Erdogan facing the biggest economic challenge of his...
Qatar says Saudi blocking hajj access to its citizens
AFP | Qatar on Sunday said its citizens were unable to take part in the annual hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia as the two countries...
Turkey’s financial crisis raises questions about China’s debt-driven development model
 James M. Dorsey | Financial injections by Qatar and possibly China may resolve Turkey’s immediate economic crisis, aggravated by a politics-driven trade war with the...
Tehran museum lionises war in which Iran took on ‘world’
AFP | With its air raid simulator and battlefield reconstructions, the state-of-the-art Holy Defence Museum in Tehran seeks to glorify the Iran-Iraq war as a...
Saudi Arabia tests Japan-inspired ‘nap pods’ for Hajj
AFP | Mansour al-Amer swipes a card to reveal a narrow sleep pod, reminiscent of Japan's famed capsule hotels. But this pod is in Saudi...
Trump’s war on Turkey for Pastor Brunson -Jacob Hornberger
Jacob G. Hornberger | Every year, thousands of American citizens are incarcerated in foreign countries. Yet, President Trump has decided to go to war to...
Iraqi girls take up swimming in IS-free Mosul
AFP | Her father and grandfather gained fame in the pool. Now, 12-year-old Rama Omar hopes to do the same -- a bold move in...
Turkey ready to respond if US imposes more sanctions
AFP| Turkey on Friday threatened to respond in kind if Washington imposed further sanctions over the detention of an American pastor which has sparked a...