MBS: Riding roughshod or playing a risky game of bluff poker? – James M Dorsey

James M. Dorsey | A stalemate in efforts to determine what happened to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is threatening to escalate into a crisis that...

Iran embassy in Ankara receives ‘suicide bomb threat’

AFP | An individual who claimed to have links to the Islamic State extremist group threatened to attack the Iranian embassy in Ankara, Tehran's envoy...

Idlib province: Syria’s last major rebel stronghold

AFP | Syria's jihadist-dominated Idlib province is the last major area still outside regime control, after a string of ferocious assaults this year put most...

Iran’s new breed of charities on poverty frontline

AFP | At an outreach center in southern Tehran, teenagers are learning to be journalists, while upstairs their mothers are fine-tuning their sewing skills and...

US “a loser” for abandoning Iran nuclear deal: Rouhani

AFP | Iran's president boasted Sunday that the United States has lost against the Islamic republic's "righteousness and wisdom" by walking out of the landmark...

Fearing Saudi wrath the West treads cautiously on Khashoggi case

AFP | Donald Trump claims he is being "very tough" with Saudi Arabia and Britain has warned of "serious consequences". But besides demanding the truth...

Syria army warns Idlib residents as deadline looms

AFP | Syria's army Friday warned residents of the country's last major rebel bastion to stay away from jihadists, who have yet to withdraw from...

Freed US pastor flying home from Turkey after case sparked crisis

AFP | An American pastor held for two years in Turkey was expected back in the United States on Saturday after a court freed him...

Aid groups worried as deadline looms for Syria’s Idlib

AFP | Aid agencies on Friday warned of dire humanitarian consequences if a Russia-Turkey deal to avert a regime assault on Syria's last major rebel...

Turkey, Saudi at odds over Istanbul consulate search: reports

AFP | Turkey and Saudi Arabia are at odds over a planned search by the Turkish authorities at the kingdom's Istanbul consulate where journalist Jamal...

Pastor back on trial in Turkey as US hopeful of release

AFP | An American pastor whose detention for the past two years by Turkey sparked a crisis in ties with the United States went back...

US investigators working with Saudis, Turkey on missing journalist: Trump

AFP | President Donald Trump said Thursday that US investigators were working with both Ankara and Riyadh to probe the suspicious disappearance in Turkey of...
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