Iran backs six-month Syria "transition" at Vienna peace talks
Iran signalled on Friday it backed a six-month transition period in Syria followed by elections to decide Bashar al-Assad's fate, a proposal floated at...
Power of the press
The number of unlicensed electronic newspapers in the Kingdom has increased dramatically. Most do not even follow the basic professional and moral standards of...
‘I apologize:’ Tony Blair admits Iraq war mistakes
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has apologized for aspects of the Iraq war in an interview with CNN on Sunday, although analysts suggest...
UN warns of Israeli-Palestinian 'catastrophe' as attacks persist
The United Nations warned Wednesday that a deadly surge in violence between Israelis and Palestinians was headed toward "catastrophe" as new knife attacks took...
As U.S. braces for Syrian refugees, mental health services lag
More than 20 years after Saddam Hussein's soldiers in Iraq killed his brother in front of him, Ali Alghazally still suffers from night terrors...
Military solution ‘impossible’ in parts of Mideast: U.S CIA Chief
A military solution is “impossible” in parts of the Middle East, U.S. CIA chief John Brennan said, arguing that it was hard to picture...
Islamic State risk for Libya's troubled oil sector
When Islamic State militants attacked a perimeter gate guarding Libya's Es Sider oil terminal this month, they sent gunmen to kill guards before attempting...
Netanyahu moves to dampen inflammatory Al-Aqsa talk
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled Tuesday to contain inflammatory rhetoric from his government over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, at the heart of a...
Islamists rise as chaos descends in Yemen's cosmopolitan port
In Aden, Yemen's most cosmopolitan city, the masked Islamist gunmen seem to have burst onto the streets from some other world.
They storm university classrooms...
Russian military mission in Syria brings history full circle
Valery Anisimov and his fellow Russian servicemen were smuggled out of the Black Sea hiding below the decks of their ship, they grew their...
