Five Kurdish mayors detained as crackdown continues in Turkey
As part of a widening government crackdown against the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Turkish authorities detained mayors of five municipalities in Kurdish-majority areas...
Amazon suing Trump over bias and interference
The Pentagon awarded the cloud computing project to Microsoft in October. Amazon later sued, arguing that Trump's interference and bias against the company harmed Amazon's...
Saudi Arabia's new jihadists poorly trained but hard to stop
Technical hitches limited the death tolls in three suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia but the apparent coordination of the blasts suggests jihadis have the...
Curtailed hajj compounds Saudi economic woes
Riyadh (AFP) - Vacant religious sites. Abandoned pilgrim tents. Lifeless hotels. A stunning emptiness -- and fears of economic ruin -- haunt the usually...
Yarmuk, an epicentre of Syria’s bloody conflict
Poverty and exile, siege and starvation, jihadist rule and government shelling -- few places have seen more suffering in Syria's seven year, atrocity-filled war...
Iran is preparing to a launch a satellite into space
This Jan. 26, 2020, satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. shows preparations at a rocket launch pad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in...
Thousands of shoppers in Pakistan prepare for Eid in spite second highest daily infection...
Despite Pakistan declaring its second highest daily infection toll, Pakistanis crowded markets on Saturday after a nationwide Coronavirus lockdown was eased.
Prime Minister Imran Khan...
Virus sweep the presidential palace in Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, where more than 20 staff at the presidential palace have tested positive for COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel Coronavirus, a...
Dutch spy services unravel ‘myth’ of life with ISIS
Dutch secret services fear as many as 70 Dutch children may be growing up among Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (militants), warning in...
Coronavirus update: 3 new cases and 2 deaths in Iran
Three more people in Iran have been infected with the new virus that originated in central China, the announcement was made the day before...
