Middle East

What Arab Saudi King Actually Seeks in Asia-Pacific

Riyadh's economic ambitions paired with its historic political goals leave ties with Asia-Pacific st...

Mar 03, 2017 07:02 AM EST

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Possibly Create Law for Leviathan Deal to Happen

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has to pass a new law to completely enact the Leviathan Dea...

Feb 15, 2016 05:26 AM EST

Iranian authorities implement Valentine's Day crackdown; Shops selling roses, bears threatened with prosecution

Iranian authorities will sweep the streets on Valentine's Day as the government implements a ban aga...

Feb 13, 2016 05:12 AM EST

Algeria's Parliament Approves New Constitution With Term Limits

The Algerian Government approved the new constitution, but it has term limits. The new constitution ...

Feb 08, 2016 02:58 AM EST

Saudi Arabia’s AHAB Hopes to Settle $6B of Debts soon

Saudi Arabian family conglomerate Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi and Brothers (AHAB) presented on Thursday de...

Jan 31, 2016 06:34 AM EST

US Rejects Comparison of New Israeli’s Bill to Lobbying Registry; Bill Threatens NGOs Democracy

Israel's new bill threatens deocracy according to US and EU. Minister who passed the law says otherw...

Jan 08, 2016 06:53 PM EST

Bahrain warns citizens not to ridicule Saudi legal system

Bahrain authorities warned its citizens not to criticize Saudi Arabia’s legal systems.

Jan 05, 2016 09:00 PM EST

Muslim proposal prompts calls to ban Trump from UK, Israel

Israeli politicians and more than 370,000 Britons urged their governments on Wednesday to bar Donald...

Dec 10, 2015 03:36 AM EST

Investigators '90 percent sure' bomb downed Russian plane

Investigators of the Russian plane crash in Egypt are "90 percent sure" the noise heard in the final...

Nov 08, 2015 07:50 PM EST

Israeli-Palestinian clashes persist as diplomats push for peace

Stone-throwing Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in t...

Oct 24, 2015 07:34 AM EDT

Saudi foreign minister says Russian actions in Syria "very dangerous"

Russia's actions in Syria are fuelling the country's war, which can only be ended with an unconditio...

Oct 22, 2015 09:20 PM EDT

Putin uses Assad visit to talk up Kremlin role as Syria broker

Vladimir Putin used a rare visit to Moscow by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to talk up the Kremli...

Oct 21, 2015 06:44 PM EDT

Top China paper says U.S., Russia playing Cold War game in Syria

China's top newspaper on Tuesday accused both the United States and Russia of replaying their Cold W...

Oct 13, 2015 01:34 AM EDT

Russia begins Syria air strikes in its biggest Mideast intervention in decades

Russia launched air strikes in Syria on Wednesday in its biggest Middle East intervention in decades...

Sep 30, 2015 06:56 PM EDT

As Europe opens its doors, Japan considers clamping down harder on asylum seekers

As the worst refugee crisis since World War Two forces Europe to break down hurdles and accept hundr...

Sep 10, 2015 02:10 AM EDT

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