Amid soaring ties with Canada, Saudi Arabia trying to better relations with Iran
News Analysis | In a breakthrough move, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has decided to allow an Iranian official in Riyadh to administer Iranian interest in...
Turkey pledges lira action to calm markets
AFP | Turkey has vowed to take measures later Monday to calm market fears sparked by the precipitous plunge in the lira's value as its...
Reunited post-Aleppo battle, Syria medics mete out ‘hope’
AFP| Her scarred hands wrapped in gloves, Malakeh Harbaliyya lifted an infant out of an incubator at a hospital in Syria's rural north, holding him...
Caspian Sea nations sign landmark deal
AFP | The leaders of the five states bordering the resource-rich Caspian Sea signed a landmark deal Sunday on the legal status of the inland...
Yemen: Around 10,000 dead and a humanitarian crisis
AFP | The war in Yemen has since March 2015 left around 10,000 people dead, the vast majority civilians, and caused the world's worst humanitarian...
Turkey’s lira crisis: How bad can it get?
AFP | Three, four, five, six… What next? Turks have over the last half decade counted the rapid depreciation of the Turkish lira on the screens...
Saudi Arabia and Iran woo incoming Pakistani prime minister
James M Dorsey | An offer by a Saudi-backed bank to lend financially strapped Pakistan US$4 billion is likely intended to bolster Saudi influence when former international...
At least 29 children killed in strike on Yemen bus
AFP | An attack on a bus at a market in rebel-held northern Yemen killed at least 29 children Thursday, the Red Cross said, as...
Iraq caught in crossfire of US sanctions on Iran
AFP | Caught in the crossfire between its key allies Tehran and Washington, Iraq's economy could suffer the heaviest collateral damage from the US reimposing...
Afghans return home in record numbers as Iran currency plunges
AFP | Migrant workers squeezed into battered taxis pull into the Four Seasons of Freedom hotel in western Afghanistan, part of a wave of Afghans...
Trump warns world against business with Iran as sanctions return
AFP | US President Donald Trump warned the world Tuesday against doing business with Iran as Washington reimposed "the most biting sanctions ever" on the...
Israel passed Controversial Law: What next?
News Analysis | In July, Israel declared itself a Jewish state via a law passed by its parliament. This move was widely criticized not only...