Turkey Detains Editor, Staff Of Leading Opposition Paper

“An accelerated descent into dictatorship” was how one journalist summed up the Oct. 31 raid on Cumhuriyet, one of a handful of surviving opposition outlets, which saw...

Heaven Can Wait – By Owen Bennett-Jones

OWEN BENNETT-JONES | Oct 26, 2016 JUST two years ago, it was said the jihadis could conquer Baghdad. Today they are on the run. When...

Muslims mistake synagogue for mosque in Israeli airport, use prayer shawls as prayer mats

Jews in Israeli Ben Gurion International Airport were quite taken aback after they saw several Turkish Muslims praying in the airport’s synagogue, apparently mistaking...

US-led coalition killed 300 Syrian civilians in 11 probed strikes – Amnesty

Around 300 civilians were killed in eleven airstrikes conducted by the US-led coalition in Syria, which Amnesty International investigated for its latest report. Amnesty...

The ‘Sniper of Mosul’ is picking off jihadis one-by-one

A renegade sniper has been striking fear into the hearts of terrorists in Mosul — picking off local jihadis one-by-one, including an ISIS executioner...

20 minutes from modern Jerusalem, a Palestinian village is stranded in the past

JUBBET ADH DHIB, West Bank — Let there be light. That is a plea of residents of this Palestinian village who have waited nearly...

Pictures of two Egyptian children engaged to be married trigger outrage — once again

Cairo: At the wedding, held in a province about 75 miles north of Cairo, the guests didn’t find it strange. Some would later tell...

Plans to send heavier weapons to CIA-backed rebels in Syria stall amid White House skepticism

As rebel-held sections of Aleppo crumbled under Russian bombing this month, the Obama administration was secretly weighing plans to rush more firepower to CIA-backed...

Isis kills dozens and seizes hostages in counter-attack on Kirkuk

Battered and in retreat over much of northern Iraq, Islamic State has launched a surprise counterattack far from its last redoubt of Mosul, taking...

Suicide bombers target multiple sites in Iraq’s Kirkuk

A Kurdish intelligence officer confirmed that four suicide bombers had attacked the main police headquarters in the city at around 3:00 am (00:00 UTC...

Wary of Russian Guarantees, Residents Stay Put in War-Torn Aleppo

Many said in interviews they wanted to stay to hold on to their homes, or to continue to resist the government of President Bashar...

How to End Saudi Arabia’s War of Paranoia

Paranoia has long been the basis of Saudi policymaking on Yemen. It used to be paranoia about the Yemenis themselves; now it’s about Iranians....
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