Erdogan chairs symbolic first meeting of Turkey cabinet
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday personally chaired the first meeting of the new Turkish cabinet, in a symbolic move showing his desire to...
Saudi Arabia aims for social overhaul in reform plan
Saudi Arabia's sweeping plans to overhaul its economy in coming years are matched by proposals for social transformation that extend to ways of tackling...
Britain says Islamic State 'likely' brought down Russian plane
Britain said on Thursday there was a significant possibility that Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate was behind a suspected bomb attack on a Russian airliner...
Belgian man named as Mastermind of the late Paris terrorist attacks
An undated photograph of a man described as Abdelhamid Abaaoud that was published in the Islamic State's online magazine Dabiq and posted on a...
Saudi crown prince to meet with Trump amid marathon US tour
Saudi Arabia's young crown prince has an ambitious list of to-dos: modernize his conservative kingdom, weaken Iran's hand across the Mideast and, this week,...
Kremlin says Turkey's Erdogan requests meeting with Putin in Paris
Russia said on Friday that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan had requested a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Paris on Nov. 30.
"A...
In about-face, Iraq’s maverick al-Sadr moves closer to Iran
Muqtada al-Sadr, the maverick Shiite cleric who emerged as the main winner in Iraq's parliamentary elections last month, campaigned on a platform to end...
ISIS eyes oil as it advances to Libyan interior: French minister
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Monday that the Islamic State group was spreading from its stronghold on the Libyan coast to...
Malaysia’s first Islamic-compliant airline takes off
Malaysia’s first Islamic-compliant airline Rayani Air began operations Sunday with its maiden flight taking off from the capital to the resort island of Langkawi,...
US-led coalition denies Syrian air strikes
Beirut, Oct 24, 2017 (AFP) - The US-led coalition battling the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq denied on Tuesday that it had...
