Iran’s currency crisis triggers corruption crackdown
AFP | With its currency plummeting ahead of the reimposition of US sanctions, Iran has responded with dozens of arrests and claims of an enemy...
Trump predicts Iran talks pretty soon
AFP | US President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that talks with arch-foe Iran were imminent, despite silence from the Islamic republic's leaders to his offer...
Turkey court rejects appeal for US pastor’s release
AFP | A Turkish court on Tuesday rejected an appeal to release from house arrest a US pastor whose detention on terror-related charges has strained...
Erdogan Congratulates Imran on his electoral victory
News Desk | The Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan congratulated Imran Khan on Tuesday, through a telephonic conversation, on the success of General Elections 2018, held...
Palestinian teen says no regrets after release from Israeli prison
AFP | Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi said Monday she was deeply changed by her eight-month sentence in an Israeli jail for slapping two soldiers, but...
Making a killing Syrian foes profit from trade across front lines
AFP | Barrels of oil, sacks of sugar, crates piled with fruit goods worth millions of dollars criss cross Syria's battlefronts daily, waved through by...
Saudi Arabia won’t back out on Palestine: King Salman tells Arab allies
News Analysis | Saudi monarch King Salman has reassured to all Arab allies in general, and Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas in particular, that Saudi Arabia...
36 women children kidnapped by IS last week in Syria’s Sweida monitor
AFP | The Islamic State group kidnapped dozens of Druze women and children when it attacked their villages last week in Syria's southern province of...
An alleged spy stirs trade war between Turkey and U.S.
News Analysis | After calling President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to intervene into the matter, when a Turkish court ordered to keep the Turkey-based US pastor...
Lack of global leadership spurs instability in the Middle East
James M. Dorsey | With multiple Middle Eastern disputes threatening to spill out of control, United Arab Emirates minister of state for foreign affairs Anwar...
Ahed Tamimi, symbol of Mid East conflict, prepares for freedom
AFP | A Palestinian teenager jailed by Israel for slapping and kicking Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank is to go free on Sunday...
U.S. illegal presence in Syria
News Desk | The devastating seven-year Syrian civil war is moving swiftly to a logical conclusion, and it’s hard not to agree with this statement....