The last 60 days, especially since October 1, have changed the political landscape in Iraq. Partisan supremacies that held the reigns of the country for 16 years and manipulated elections ha... Read more

Nora Bendary   As Tehran discovered that tones of intransigence would not work with US President Donald Trump, the mullahs’ officials began to calm their rhetoric towards issues t... Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy for the first time on Monday at a summit in Paris aimed at advancing efforts to restore peace to eastern Uk... Read more

Turkey has expelled 11 suspected French Isis members after it Ankara warned it would not hold foreign terrorists and warned western states over their reluctance to not take responsibility fo... Read more

Britain will face another Brexit crisis in the spring if Tories win, says Farage Here are the main points from Nigel Farage’s speech earlier. Farage, the Brexit party leader, said Britain wo... Read more

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz, during his opening speech at the 40th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit held in Riyadh on Tuesday, stressed that the Gulf countries must unite a... Read more

Turkey said on Wednesday it would retaliate against any US sanctions over its purchase of Russian defense systems, adding that with Britain it had agreed to speed up a joint fighter jet prog... Read more

Saudi Aramco’s shares soared to hit the 10 percent limit to reach 35.2 riyals ($9.39) per share on its trading debut on Wednesday, giving the oil giant a valuation of $1.88 trillion, and mak... Read more

  Nora Bandari   The ongoing protests in Iran, and the continued impact of US sanctions negatively on the Iranian economy, prompted the mullahs’ regime to return to the negot... Read more

Islam Mohamed Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani overviewed the country’s new budget on Sunday, raising questions about Tehran’s influence in the region. Rouhani told parliament that the... Read more

Muazz Mohamed On a day like today two years ago, former Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, declared the end of the war on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the liberation of... Read more

Face-to-face talks between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have yielded modest progress, with tentative agreements on prisoner exchanges and a total ceasefire, but no political breakthroug... Read more

Russian president Vladimir Putin has said his country have ’reason to appeal’ against the four-year ban imposed by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Wada’s executive committee unanimously accept... Read more

Jeremy Corbyn has insisted the experience of a four-year-old boy having to lie on a hospital floor while he waited for a bed is a political issue. A photograph of Jack Williment-Barr, who wa... Read more

The US Army is planning its biggest deployment of troops to Europe in 25 years, with 20,000 troops slated to take part in a massive force projection exercise at a time of increasingly advers... Read more