Trump threatens Turkey with sanctions: Moscow hopes he is serious!

M K Bhadrakumar | The frequency with which US President Donald Trump holds out threats to other countries is such that he is no longer...

Talking to Rouhani: Is Trump shooting from the hip or following a script?

James M Dorsey | Message to Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Tel Aviv: Not to worry, US President Donald J. Trump has no intention of meeting...

Turkey court rejects appeal for US pastor’s release

AFP | A Turkish court on Tuesday rejected an appeal to release from house arrest a US pastor whose detention on terror-related charges has strained...

Erdogan Congratulates Imran on his electoral victory

News Desk | The Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan congratulated Imran Khan on Tuesday, through a telephonic conversation, on the success of General Elections 2018, held...

Iran’s currency crisis triggers corruption crackdown

AFP | With its currency plummeting ahead of the reimposition of US sanctions, Iran has responded with dozens of arrests and claims of an enemy...

Trump predicts Iran talks pretty soon

AFP | US President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that talks with arch-foe Iran were imminent, despite silence from the Islamic republic's leaders to his offer...

Palestinian teen says no regrets after release from Israeli prison

AFP | Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi said Monday she was deeply changed by her eight-month sentence in an Israeli jail for slapping two soldiers, but...

Making a killing Syrian foes profit from trade across front lines

AFP | Barrels of oil, sacks of sugar, crates piled with fruit goods worth millions of dollars criss cross Syria's battlefronts daily, waved through by...

Saudi Arabia won’t back out on Palestine: King Salman tells Arab allies

News Analysis | Saudi monarch King Salman has reassured to all Arab allies in general, and Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas in particular, that Saudi Arabia...

36 women children kidnapped by IS last week in Syria’s Sweida monitor

AFP | The Islamic State group kidnapped dozens of Druze women and children when it attacked their villages last week in Syria's southern province of...

An alleged spy stirs trade war between Turkey and U.S.

News Analysis | After calling President Recep Tayyip  Erdogan to intervene into the matter, when a Turkish court ordered to keep the Turkey-based US pastor...

Lack of global leadership spurs instability in the Middle East

James M. Dorsey | With multiple Middle Eastern disputes threatening to spill out of control, United Arab Emirates minister of state for foreign affairs Anwar...