Netanyahu withdraw his request for immunity on corruption charges
Hours before parliamentary proceedings were set to begin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu withdrew his request for immunity from prosecution on Tuesday.
In a statement...
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...
Saudi Arabia reports foiling planned Islamic State attacks
Interior ministry announces it has arrested more than 400 people and thwarted suicide bomb attack on mosque in east of country as bomb kills...
‘Slipped the net’: Iranian judge’s mysterious death angers activists
Paris (AFP) - The unexplained death of a fugitive Iranian judge, who plunged from a top floor of his hotel in Bucharest last week,...
Gulf Arabs race to release youth potential in age of cheap oil
Like the prototype drone of Emirati student Talib Alhinai, the ambitions of young people across the Gulf Arab states need to soar if they...
Iran's military boots on Syria's war
The new offensive launched by Syrian government forces in the countryside south of Aleppo has shed light on Iran's growing role in Syria's civil...
Power of the press
The number of unlicensed electronic newspapers in the Kingdom has increased dramatically. Most do not even follow the basic professional and moral standards of...
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...
At Paris talks, leaders move beyond the environment
For world leaders attending a long-planned climate summit in Paris just weeks after 130 people were killed by Islamic State militants in the French...
Saudi ambassador defends human rights record in interview with BBC Newsnight
Saudi Ambassador to the United Nations, Abdallah Y. al-Mouallimi, took part in a BBC Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis to defend Saudi Arabia's human...
