Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said rivals of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki lack the votes to oust him, stalling efforts to remove a leader who opponents accuse of being increasingly dictatorial. Multiple political parties have sought to wi
Democracy has allowed “thieves” to plunder and pillage Iraq, Secretary of Hezbollah in the country said in an interview on Saturday. “The drawbacks of a democratic system is that it allows thieves to pillage what they want,” Wathiq al-Battat was
Dozens of Kuwaitis “jihadists” have crossed the Turkish border into Syria to support the Free Syrian Army’s (FSA) fight against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a Kuwaiti news report stated on Sunday. The FSA, the country’s main ar
A new law on bachelor accommodation in the United Arab Emirates state of Sharjah has caused confusion for single women also living in the region, the Gulf News reported on Saturday. The rule was first implemented in the beginning of April and targeted si
French voters go to polls to elect National Assembly with Socialist president seeking mandate to tackle economic crisis.
Human Rights Watch on Sunday urged Israel to repeal or amend a law that allows migrants to be detained without charge for up to three years, calling it a violation of “basic rights.” The New York-based group said the new law “punishes
ذكرت صحيفة إندبندنت البريطانية أن ما لا يقل عن 1.5 مليون شخص بحاجة إلى مساعدة إنسانية عاجلة في سوريا، وأن هناك دليلا على أن تأثير ما يبدو أنه ح
Canadian school children taking Persian language classes, study from Iranian textbooks depicting Israelis as “apes,” news website Ynet News reported Saturday. Director of the International and Terrorist Intelligence Program at INSIGNIS Strategic Rese
حذر خبراء إسرائيليون كبار في شؤون الشرق الأوسط التقوا الأسبوع الماضي برئيس الوزراء بنيامين نتنياهو، من أن أفعال حكومته وتكثيف البناء الاست
Sudanese rebels in troubled Blue Nile state have repulsed an attack by government forces, which lost men and weapons in the fighting, a rebel spokesman said on Sunday, but the army dismissed the claims. “The government forces tried to att