UAE adopts new Emirati School Model
Abu Dhabi: A new educational system, the Emirati School Model, announced on Sunday will unify the sector across the UAE and raise standards of teaching…
Iran and Syria Sponsored The Hezbollah-ISIS Prisoner Swap
The prisoner swap between Hezbollah and ISIS on August 28 that saw the release of over 300 ISIS militants and 8 Hezbollah militants and one…
Dubai is building 500km of new bicycle lanes
The streets of Dubai are about to get greener, after Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid approved construction of 500km of bike lanes by 2021. The Vice…
Israel welcomes UN mission in Lebanon under new mandate
JERUSALEM — Israel is welcoming the extension of a U.N. peacekeeping operation under tougher directives in southern Lebanon adding it must act to maintain stability…
Iran, and a diplomacy deficit
The multipronged tensions in the Middle East have disturbing echoes of the immediate post 9/11 period. After the attacks that day in New York and…
Coming soon: Another regional mall to Dubai
Emaar Properties has announced the launch of Dubai Hills Mall, a retail district in Dubai Hills Estate, in a joint venture with Meraas. A regional…
How Israeli citizens are becoming stateless
Israel has been gradually stripping thousands of Palestinian Bedouins from various villages in the southern Negev region of their citizenship status, claiming that they had…
UAE hotels look to Eid business boon
Hotels in the UAE, the second-biggest economy in the Arabian Gulf region and the top business and commercial hub of the wider Middle East, are…
Israel tells UNIFIL Lebanese officer working as Hezbollah mole
Two days after Israel-US push succeeds in expanding UN peacekeeping mission’s responsibilities in restraining Hezbollah’s military ambitions, IDF presents UNIFIL with intelligence demonstrating senior officer…
Erdogan: Indictment of guards in US brawl a scandal
Turkey’s president blames Washington for May skirmish, but US prosecutors say Turkish guards started the melee. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced as a…