Yemeni Prime Minister Abdel Aziz bin Habtoor (C) visits the site of a funeral hall building destroyed a year ago by reported Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, in the capital Sanaa (AFP) UK sales of weapons and military equipment to Saudi Arabia...
A double-whammy of Middle East geopolitics threatens to propel oil prices higher. The first whammy is the growing military conflict between Iraqi forces and the Kurds that may interrupt energy supplies. A second punch revolves around increasing tensions between the...
New guidelines will apply to applicants who have already been pre-screened (Reuters) The Trump administration will require all refugees to provide information about their whereabouts going back a decade, twice as long as before, during screening for admission to the...
Warda Naili converted to Islam when she was 19 and in 2011, donned the niqab (MEE/Jillian Kestler-D'Amours) MONTREAL, Quebec – Warda Naili cried when she heard the news. “Women like me, who wear the niqab, you don't see many of...
File photo of demonstration by Iranian students holding pictures of scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, who was killed in a bomb blast, 29 January 2012 (Reuters) Iran has sentenced to death a person found guilty of providing information to Israel to help...
Morocco's King Mohammed dismissed the ministers of education, planning and housing and health (Reuters) Morocco's king dismissed several ministers and top officials on Tuesday for failing to improve the economic situation in a region shaken by protests, a statement said....
Iraqi security forces deploy on the streets after a curfew was imposed in northern city of Kirkuk on 25 September (AFP) The Kurdistan Regional Government early on Wednesday offered to freeze the results of an earlier referendum on independence as...
On 21 October, six years after the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the establishment of the "new" Libya, the UN's new Joint Drafting Committee for Libya concluded its second round of meetings in Tunis without agreeing on...
The nameless woman, a local restaurateur, is a new victim in a brutal conflict that has gripped a formerly sedate region in Congo for a year, but she is arguably also part of an old story of violence that dates...
I remember a chalk line drawn on blacktop by a group of kids at recess when I was young. The message was clear: This is the line you do not cross. If you stepped over it, you would face the...
