Al-Maliki thugs force top Saudi paper to halt Iraq operation
JEDDAH: Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, sister publication of Arab News, has announced that it is shutting down operations temporarily in Iraq because of repeated harassment...
Tunisia protest figure released after new clashes in deprived south
Tunis, (AFP) - A protest leader in southern Tunisia was released Wednesday, a lawyer said, four days after his arrest amid angry protests over...
British and U.S. spies hacked Israeli air force networks
The United States and Britain have monitored secret sorties and communications by Israel's air force in a hacking operation dating back to 1998, according...
Libya: No immediate call for foreign airstrikes against ISIS
Libya's U.N. ambassador said Wednesday his country will hold off asking nations like the United States and Britain to intervene with airstrikes against the...
Report: numbers of foreign fighters to Syria and Iraq have doubled
The number of foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria has more than doubled since last year to at least 27,000, a report by an...
Syrian army and Russian jets target rebel towns north of Homs
Syrian army troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets, launched an attack on rebel-held towns north of the city of Homs on Thursday,...
No sign of Saudi rescuing oil market
Low oil prices have pushed top exporter Saudi Arabia to hasten difficult economic reforms and cut spending on popular benefits, but it has few...
Bad Saudi PR fuels riyal devaluation talk
Speculation that Saudi Arabia could devalue its currency may owe more to a poor public relations effort by Saudi authorities than to the economic...
Qatar's channel to militants useful but dangerous
To its foes, Qatar's deal-making with armed groups is reckless grandstanding that helps destabilise the Middle East.
To its friends, the network of Islamist contacts...
UN rights monitor on Palestinian territories quits over lack of access
The UN expert on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories resigned Monday, complaining that Israel had never granted him access to...
