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Turkey has "serious worries" about Syrian ceasefire

Turkey has serious worries about the plan to halt violence in Syria because of the fighting on the ground, President Tayyip Erdogan's aide and...

Inquiry for the hajj

If Saudi Arabia is to host the annual hajj, it must ensure pilgrims' safety. It says much about the animosity between Iran and Saudi Arabia...

Russia's escalating Syria intervention threatens Middle East stability

Vladimir Putin may discover that the trouble with using force to strengthen one’s negotiating position is that other sides follow suit. The Russian military intervention...

Sepp Blatter faces judgment by FIFA ethics court he created

Sepp Blatter attempted to save his presidency on Thursday at the FIFA ethics committee he helped create and whose authority he does not recognize...

Oil prices move up from 12 year lows as China shares rise

Oil prices rose modestly on Friday, still within reach of 11 and a half-year lows, boosted by a recovery in Chinese shares, but persistent...

Saudi court quashes death sentence for Palestinian poet

A Saudi court has commuted the death sentence against a Palestinian poet convicted of apostasy, to eight years' jail and 800 lashes, his lawyer...

Australian mosque leader tells violent Muslims to leave country

The leader of the Sydney mosque attended by a 15-year-old who killed a police worker has called for an end to violent extremism, saying...

Trump elephant trophy-hunting move sparks stampede of outrage

Conservation groups decried U.S. President Donald Trump's decision this week to allow trophy hunters who kill elephants in two African countries to bring home...

Saudi Arabia slams terror attack in Mali

Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — Saudi Arabia condemned on Friday the terrorist attack on a hotel in the country’s capital Bamako which resulted in killing,...

Saudi seen rejecting calls for OPEC cuts as rivals pump more

Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies will reject calls from fellow OPEC members to cut output, Iran said on Wednesday, two days before the...

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