Source: Associated Press By NASSER KARIMI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Tehran resident Sousan Heidari has stopped letting her headscarf slip casually down over her neck and shoulders while driving in […]
Source: BBC Turkey’s PM Ahmet Davutoglu has said the country’s new constitution will feature the principle of secularism. He said Turkey’s secular and democratic character was “not up for debate”. […]
Source: Reuters BY STEPHANIE NEBEHAY United Nations torture experts called on Saudi Arabia on Friday to stop corporal punishment, including flogging and amputations, practices that the Gulf kingdom considers an integral part of its interpretation of Islamic law. The committee that monitors the U.N. Convention against Torture, in its first […]
Source: Aljazeera Saudi Arabia’s cabinet has agreed on a broad-based economic reform plan, known as Vision 2030, revealing how the oil-reliant state plans to diversify its economy over the next 14 years. Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the deputy crown prince, said on Monday that the country was building up the […]
Source: BBC Disagreements about who should do housework blew up on Twitter in Saudi Arabia this week, and offered some insight into popular attitudes in the country. If you’re a […]
Epigraph: Almost a million people commit suicide every year in the world. Source: Breitbart By ALI WAKED JAFFA, Israel – The reason suicides in the United States reached a nearly three […]
Source: BBC President Barack Obama has ruled out deploying US ground troops in Syria and says military efforts alone cannot solve the country’s problems. “It would be a mistake for the United States, or Great Britain… to send in ground troops and overthrow the [Bashar al-] Assad regime,” he told […]
Source: BBC By BBC Monitoring The world through its media News that Iran has deployed thousands of undercover agents to enforce rules on dress has cast the spotlight on an […]
Source: Gulf News Dubai: Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Bin Abdul Aziz said he has no problem with the official religious authority on the issue of women driving. The prince told Bloomberg the problem he’s “working to resolve is with those who distort the facts of the […]
Source: Yahoo News By Shatha Yaish AFP Bethlehem (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Israeli police said Thursday a Hamas militant carried out a “suicide” bus bombing in Jerusalem that wounded 20 people, […]
Source: CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CNN)A day after his longer-than-planned talks with Saudi King Salman partially eased some long-simmering tensions, President Barack Obama was working Thursday to persuade other Gulf leaders to take a more muscular role in stabilizing their region. During a […]
Rouhani clashes with Iranian police over undercover hijab agents Source: Reuters Iran’s president criticized the use of thousands of undercover morality police in Tehran to report on young women who […]
Source: BBC By Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent To survive any such place of profound pain is the greatest of gifts, a triumph of the human spirit. In our time, […]
Source: CNN By Nicole Gaouette, CNN (CNN)President Barack Obama lands in Saudi Arabiaon Wednesday as the U.S. alliance with the Mideast powerhouse, long lubricated by barrels of oil, is being […]
Source: BBC By Ahmed Maher Om Hussein is a mother close to breaking point. Along with her husband and their four young children, she is struggling with poverty like millions of other Iraqis. Her husband, Ali, is unemployed. He is diabetic and has heart problems. She has been the breadwinner […]
Source: Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s prime minister on Monday said his government has decided to call off a plan to install surveillance cameras at Jerusalem’s most sensitive […]
Source: Yahoo News Jerusalem (AFP) – An Israeli court on Tuesday convicted an ultra-Orthodox man of murder and six counts of attempted murder over stabbings at a Jerusalem Gay Pride […]
Source: The New York Times By ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel led a cabinet meeting in the Israeli-controlled portion of the Golan Heights on Sunday, […]
If the semi-autonomous government goes bankrupt, the war against the caliphate could go belly-up. Iraqi Kurdistan’s fight against ISIS has for many Kurds been an existential battle central to their survival and that of their autonomous region in Iraq. However, with ISIS prevented from embarking upon Kurdistan’s major towns and […]
Source: The Guardian By Spencer Ackerman As Barack Obama prepares to visit Saudi Arabia, the Saudi royal family has taken custody of nine longtime Guantánamo Bay detainees, bringing Obama closer to […]