Algeria’s national assembly on Tuesday voted to maintain a two-decade ban on the country’s main religious party as lawmakers debated proposals for a new electoral law. A month after Islamists swept to victory in neighboring Tunisia, th
A U.S. stealth drone that crashed in Iran last week was part of a CIA reconnaissance mission which involved both the intelligence community and military personnel stationed in Afghanistan, two U.S. officials confirmed to CNN Tuesday.
The recent emergence of the hardline Salafi trend in Egypt after the January 25 revolution has given way to a series of controversial fatwas that mainly focused on women, Copts, culture and democracy. Preacher Mustafa al-Adawi issued a fatwa prohibiting
وصل وزير الخزانة الأميركي تيموثي غيثنر ألمانيا اليوم للاجتماع مع مسؤولين بمنطقة اليورو على مدار ثلاثة أيام لحثهم على اتخاذ إجراء حاسم لدعم
Egyptian presidential hopeful Amr Moussa on Monday called on the Arab world’s Islamist parties to embrace the principles of democracy and modernity. Speaking at a Dubai conference on the future challenges of state-building in the region,
The Kuwaiti emir has issued a decree to dissolve parliament, the official Kuwaiti news agency reported on Tuesday. Earlier, opposition lawmaker Hussein Mazyed said that Kuwait was expected to dissolve its parliament in the wake of recent political unrest
This year tweeters have been most interested in the Arab Spring, Charlie Sheen and the McLobster, according to Twitter.
More than 300 Iranian families were forced to leave their homeland in the western province of Khuzestan after facing a series of discriminatory acts for following the faith Sabian Mandaeism which is not officially acknowledged in the Islamic republic. Sa