An appeals court in Bahrain upheld the conviction of the prominent opposition activist Zainab al-Khawaja on Wednesday, sentencing her to one year in prison for insulting the nation’s king. During a court hearing, she ripped [ More … ]
A military airstrike in northwest Syria has killed the leader of an al-Qaeda cell that American officials say has been plotting attacks against the United States and Europe, announced the Pentagon on Sunday. The leader, [ More … ]
A Kuwaiti rights group on Monday accused authorities in the Gulf state of discrimination against foreigners by barring them from certain healthcare services at public hospitals. The independent Kuwait Society for Human Rights said expatriates [ More … ]
The US approved conditional sanctions waivers for Iran on Sunday, though it cautioned they would not take effect until Tehran had curbed its nuclear programme as required under the nuclear deal reached in Vienna in [ More … ]
The UAE paid a London-based public relations firm millions of pounds to lead attacks in the UK against Qatar, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other opponents of the Gulf state, according to a Mail on Sunday [ More … ]
Syrian troops, backed by Russian air power, and allied militias opened a new front against rebels around the second city of Aleppo on Friday, where up to 2,000 IranÂ-backed forces are deployed. The Aleppo offensive [ More … ]
The latest American plans to aid Syrian fighters battling the Islamic State hit an obstacle as Turkish officials summoned the American ambassador to express concern that the United States was providing new support to Kurdish [ More … ]
Iraq may request Russian airstrikes against ISIS on its soil soon and the country wants Moscow to have a bigger role than the United States in the war against the militant group, the head of [ More … ]
Several senior commanders of Islamic state, ISIS, were killed in an Iraqi airstrike near the border with Syria. According to a Reuters reports the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was not among them. The Iraqi military [ More … ]
Iran tested a new guided long-range ballistic missile on Sunday, hours before Parliament approved the generalities of the nuclear agreement reached in July between Iran and world powers, reports the state news agency IRNA. The [ More … ]
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Saudi Arabia’s defence minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Salman, on Sunday, in Moscow’s most important attempt so far to reach out to enemies of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, since Russia joined [ More … ]
Amid the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 a senior prince in the United Arab Emirates allegedly plotted a palace coup to overthrow the country’s leaders and transform the autocratic Gulf state into a constitutional monarchy. [ More … ]
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