Saudi Arabia to build $500 billion city in desert
News Analysis | Saudi Arabia intends to build a new futuristic city, a huge industrial zone in its northeast to integrate with regional economies -...
Division within Palestinian resistant movements
M K Bhadrakumar | The Hamas and Fatah, the two mainstream Palestinian movements, are making yet another attempt at political reconciliation. Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah...
Writing “Israel” In Quotation Marks Is A Peaceful Form Of Pro-Semitic Protest
Andrew Korybko | The political entity that’s recognized by most of the world’s states as “Israel” was founded under very controversial circumstances related to the...
Gulf crisis turn Qatar into potential model of social change
James M. Dorsey| Potential Qatari moves to become the first Gulf state to effectively abolish the region’s onerous kafala or labor sponsorship system, denounced as...
How tiny Qatar’s wealth saved it from starvation ?
James M Dorsey | Food security has taken on a new dimension almost five months into the Gulf crisis that pits a UAE-Saudi alliance against...
Will meetings in Saudi Arabia help Nawaz?
News Analysis Pakistan's ex-Premier, Nawaz Sharif, facing corruption cases in an Accountability Court, reached Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Monday night instead of heading to Lahore as...
Pakistan: Fixing religious fault-lines in the age of ISIS..?
Afrah Jamal | Pakistan's Bold Response to Sectarianism? A few days before Muharram, grand proclamations advocating peace and calm that suggested people shun their religious, sectarian...
The “South Yemenis” are trying to repeat the Kurdish scenario
Andrew Korybko | A South Yemeni separatist leader vowed to hold an independence referendum in the near future. The former governor of Aden Aidaroos al-Zubaidi...
US demands Europeans to restrict business with Iran
News Analysis | US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, shocked the European companies by demanding that European allies should support latest US ban on Iran's...
Western media’s propaganda war against Syria: Part of the “plan”?
Hussain Akram | The year 2011 saw the beginning of what Western media immediately described as a revolution against a 'mad dictator inflicting suffering upon...
Iran joins Iraq in squeezing United States’s Kurdish Allies
James M Dorsey | There may be a silver but risky lining for Kurdish nationalists in their devastating loss of Kirkuk and other cities on...
Why are Iran and US bitter & old enemies?
Saleem Akhtar Malik | Getting bored with his sniping match with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, Trump has now turned his Twitter guns on Iran....