Qatar sets $200 as minimum wage
Qatar has set a temporary minimum wage for migrant workers worth around $200 a month, its labour minister said Thursday, a benchmark reform following widespread criticism…
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Pentagon Says It’s Staying In Syria, Even Though ISIS Appears Defeated
Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State, is taken and in ruins. U.S. troops and civilian aid workers are in the Syrian city,…
Analysis: The Pragmatic Sunni Fronr Against Iran Exists No More
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have agreed that there is no military solution for the Syrian crisis. America is adopting the disengagement policy of former…
Trump will pardon his first turkey next week
President Trump on Tuesday will participate in the time-honored tradition of the presidential turkey pardon in a ceremony in the Rose Garden. It’s the 70th…
Dubai Airshow 2017: UAE set to upgrade Mirage 2000 fighters
Both the aircraft original equipment manufacturer (OEM) Dassault and systems integrator Thales said on 14 November that the UAE Air Force & Air Defence (UAE…
Iraq launches assault on last IS-held town in country: army
The Iraq army said it launched an assault on Friday on the small Euphrates valley town of Rawa, the last in the country still held…
Israeli military chief wants closer Saudi ties as Iran tensions rise
Israel’s military chief has given an “unprecedented” interview to a Saudi newspaper underlining the ways in which the two countries could unite to counter Iran’s…
MENAF panel discuss the turbulent future of Turkey
On Monday evening, a panel hosted by the Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum (MENAF) discussed the troubled political situation developing in Turkey over…
Saudi Arabia Has No Idea How to Deal With Iran
Few things are as explosive as the combination of power, ambition and anxiety — and there is plenty of all three in Riyadh these days….
Turkey Expects EU to Provide Total 6 Billion Euros Under Migrant Deal by End-2018: Minister
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey expects the European Union to provide the remaining portion of the 3 billion euros ($3.53 billion) which the bloc pledged under…