U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vatican officials discussed their differences over China on Thursday, the Vatican said, a day after tensions over the Holy See’s outreach to Beijing s... Read more

Once a political novice, Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is joining Europe’s diplomatic big leagues but risks undermining her own cause in the process, experts said... Read more

French President Emmanuel Macron has expressed concern about Turkey allegedly sending Syrian mercenaries to support Azerbaijan in its re-ignited conflict with Armenia over the mountain regio... Read more

Hossam al-Haddad   The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) provides a weekly report on the methods extremists use to exploit the internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and... Read more

Eslam Mohamed   After years of claiming false heroism, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Major General Hossein Salami admitted in a speech to his country’s parlia... Read more

Fatima Abdul Ghani   The spokesman for Saudi Arabia’s Presidency of State Security revealed that his country’s security forces managed to topple a new terrorist cell in a preemptive ope... Read more

Tokyo’s stock markets will resume trade on Friday, their operator said, after a “hardware failure” caused an unprecedented day-long shutdown of one of the world’s big... Read more

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is recovering in Germany after being poisoned in Russia by a nerve agent, accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being behind the attack in... Read more

Doaa Mohamed Debates about the future of the branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait are renewing after the death of the Gulf emirate’s emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah.... Read more

Rubeir al-Fares The U.S. State Department threatened to impose sanctions on some Iraqi militias. It said the U.S. would take all the necessary measures to protect its embassies and diplomati... Read more

Baghdad is “not happy” with a “dangerous” threat by Washington to pull its troops and diplomats out of Iraq, Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said Wednesday. Several pol... Read more

Aya Ezz Armenia’s ambassador in Moscow has revealed that Turkey had sent over 4,000 Syrian mercenaries to Azerbaijan. However, an aide of the president of Azerbaijan denied this. Battl... Read more

Mahmoud al-Batakoushi   Interest and mutual benefit are the basis of the relationship between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the fugitive Brotherhood leaders being harbored... Read more

Mahmoud al-Batakoushi   Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, dreaming of restoring the glories of the Ottoman state that had made the Arab peoples taste the scourge of humiliation, f... Read more

Doaa Emam An attack by members of the far-right on participants in the Oktoberfest, the world’s largest annual folk festival, in Munich in September 1980 left 13 people dead, including... Read more