Following the Prisoner’s Sixth Surgery Arash Bahmani The news announcement that Mehdi Karoubi – a leader in the protests against…
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By Athoob A Alshuaibi KUWAIT: As preparations at Jaber Stadium continue in full swing ahead of its opening on Dec…
By EMILY B. HAGER and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON — The United Arab Emirates has secretly dispatched hundreds of Colombian mercenaries…
Carlo Ancelotti will manage Ronaldinho, Paul Scholes, Robert Pires and Carles Puyol when the Football Champions Tour hits Kuwait. Ronaldinho,…
‘Bare, Naked, Nude,’ a new exhibition recently opened at Istanbul’s Pera Museum, includes academic studies of 44 artists from different…
Nicholas Linn Egypt’s got plans for Libya — to eradicate the Islamists and set it under the firm, autocratic control…
With the growth of the Islamic State have come voices for the United States and Western countries to engage with…
Lifelong language study can change a person. It enriches one’s life, especially if it is a relatively difficult language requiring…
By REBECCA R. RUIZ, MATT APUZZO, SAM BORDEN and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM The investigation into corruption and bribery in…
Of Turkey’s near-dozen neighbors, there is just one that Ankara really fears: Russia. This is rooted in history stretching back…
4 Things We Learned From This Week in International Sports Corruption On the eve of FIFA’s executive committee meeting that…
By Jack Goldstone As world leaders gather in Paris this week to address climate change, they will labor under the…
The Vatican’s nuncio to Lebanon, Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, center, visits a hospitalized victim of the Nov. 12 twin suicide bombings…
Dozens of nuclear weapons are just miles from where Ankara shot down jet Geoff Wilson Turkey’s downing of a Russian…
Eldad Beck Waleed al-Husseini sat in Palestinian jail after daring to criticize radicals – but he says he is also…
William Armstrong – william.armstrong@hdn.com.tr Turkey’s newly elected government has given signals that it may move to address the grievances of…
A protester in Istanbul holds a sign reading ‘Alevism is my right.’ William Armstrong – william.armstrong@hdn.com.tr ‘Writing Religion: The…
South Africa’s last white president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Frederik Willem de Klerk urges Israelis not to follow the…
By Duncan Mackay at the Fairmont Hotel in Monte Carlo Mexico have been warned by the Interntional Olympic Committee’s (IOC)…
Jamal Habbachich, who heads a council of 22 Molenbeek mosques, poses for a picture at Attadamoun Mosque in the neighbourhood…
Executive Summary This report deals with the present situation in the Ismaili majority town of Salamiyah([1]) four years on from…
PARIS | BY JOHN IRISH, ROBERT-JAN BARTUNEK AND ORHAN COSKUN There were multiple chances to stop the men who attacked…
NEW REPORT FROM TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL SHOWS LACK OF INFORMATION AND TRANSPARENCY IN FOOTBALL AND HIGHLIGHTS CORRUPTION RISKS Most of the…
New Delhi is reportedly set to host an alternative Rio 2016 Olympic qualifier for Asian shooters following the International Olympic…
“The Olympic Charter is the best invention that has been created to avoid the control of public resources and the…
Columb Strack – Senior Analyst, Middle East & North Africa at IHS Syrian government forces have made modest territorial gains…
James F. Jeffrey, Matthew Levitt, Fabrice Balanche, and Anna Borshchevskaya As the United States and its allies search for…
Analysis: The French government and its secret services got a wakeup call in January, but kept sleeping. While taking a…
Pope Benedict XVI lectured on faith and reason at the University of Regensburg in Germany in this Sept. 12, 2006,…
Proposed sale of the Littoral Combat Ship to Saudi Arabia recalls arms deals with the Shah Paul Iddon In October,…
By ADAM NOSSITER and AURELIEN BREEDENNOV. 14, 2015 SLIDE SHOW|10 Photos PARIS — President François Hollande called the…
News about Syria has quickly replaced news about Ukraine in the Russian media, thanks to the Kremlin’s propaganda. “This…
KUWAIT, Nov 10 (KUNA) — Public Authority for Sports (PAS) Deputy Director General Humoud Fulaiteh has rejected charges by…
Those who really love this land understand that it belongs to two peoples. Now, before it is too late, what…
Afghan Taliban fighters listen to Mullah Mohammad Rasool Akhund (unseen), the newly appointed leader of a breakaway faction of the…
The Olympic Movement has a sense of quasi-royalty. The IOC think they are almost born to lead and rule, and…
Israel Prize winner tells Foreign Ministry that he will not participate in state-sponsored events held abroad under the auspices of…
Russia has greatly complicated an already-fraught situation by picking a fight with Syria’s majority Sunni rebels and tripping into other…
Meda Al Rowas – IHS Jane’s Intelligence Review Key Points The Saudi-led coalition is struggling to organise and co-ordinate its…
A rare commercial public opinion poll completed in Kuwait in September exposes significant rifts in this Kuwaiti society about the…
The work of civil courts may be gradually creating a robust foundation for individual rights. By Gabriel Collins China’s leaders…
KUWAIT, Nov 4 (KUNA) — A number of lawmakers on Wednesday called for opening an urgent investigation into the International…
KUWAIT, Nov 4 (KUNA) — Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah said…
Neighboring countries present dangers, privations, and complications not present in Europe, and after hearing about these problems or experiencing them…
Folk memories endure, mothers’ and grandmothers’ sagas trumping documents in neglected archives. What will Syria’s youth, when they are old,…
Jeremy Binnie, London A photograph released by the WAM news agency on 28 October shows an AT-802 at Al-Anad Air…
It’s all because of logistics … or lack of it Dave Majumdar The National Interest8 Russia’s pace of air operations…
Only objective secularists can safeguard the holiness attributed to these sites, to preserve the holiness of humankind, and prevent bloodshed.…
Tony Barber in London Having spent seven years as Turkey’s president, and five years before that as prime minister and…
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 23, 2015 Wholly preoccupied with the ferocious Palestinian terror campaign washing over their country, Israelis have…