Russia and OPEC: convenience but no marriage
AFP | Two years after they teamed up to take back control of oil markets, the alliance between Russia and OPEC continues to be effective....
‘Never-ending’ numbers in last IS scrap shock US-backed fighters
AFP | US-backed fighters have been hoping for weeks that the final day has come for the Islamic State group's "caliphate", but its last tiny...
After IS, Mosul tackles another terror: super-resistant bacteria
AFP | Explosives left behind by the Islamic State group in Iraq's Mosul took 12-year-old Abdallah's left leg, but another kind of terror may cost...
Algerians eager for change but wary of new Arab Spring
AFP | Massive protests that have gripped Algeria might resemble another Arab Spring but those seeking democratic change are mindful of history and want to...
French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain killed in Syria: wife
AFP | Prominent French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain was killed last month, his wife told AFP Tuesday after fleeing the last redoubt of the Islamic State...
IS-backed Boko Haram faction may have new chief: sources
AFP | The leader of an Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram may have been replaced, sources say, against a backdrop of speculation as to...
Yemen, Saudis, UAE accuse Huthis of breaking pullback deal
AFP | Yemen's government and its Saudi and Emirati backers are accusing Huthi rebels of refusing to abide by a deal agreed two weeks ago...
Qatar says arms purchases ‘none of Saudi’s business’
AFP | Qatar on Monday told rival Saudi Arabia not to meddle in its potential arms purchases from Russia, as the Gulf state weighs the...
Chlorine used in attack on Syria’s Douma: watchdog
AFP | The world's chemical weapons watchdog said Friday that chlorine was used against the rebel-held Syrian town of Douma in 2018, in a long-awaited...
Once the backbone of Middle Eastern protests, ultras are down but not out – James M. Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | Ali Issa Ahmad, a British football fan, who was lingering earlier this year in jail in the United Arab Emirates for...
Saudi says Hamza bin Laden stripped of his citizenship
AFP | Hamza Bin Laden, a son of late al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden seen as a rising jihadist leader, has been stripped of his...
Saudi Arabia to put detained women activists on trial
AFP | Saudi women activists detained last year in a sweeping crackdown on campaigners will be put on trial, state media said Friday. "The public...