Turkey enraged as US provides more weapons to Syrian Kurds
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that his country’s relations would further strain with the United States if Washington continues to support Kurdish…
Lavrov: US-Russian agreements on Syria must be saved
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the United Nations on Friday that US-Russian agreements aimed at ending the war in Syria must be salvaged as…
For the first time, Saudi Arabia is being attacked by both Sunni and Shia leaders
The prelates included Egypt’s Grand Imam, Ahmed el-Tayeb of al-Azhar, the most important centre of theological study in the Islamic world, who only a year…
Obama: We don’t need the Saudis
Obama has threatened to veto a bill passed by Congress that would allow victims of September 11 to sue Saudi Arabia for damages. Currently, victims…
Personal Tales of Love, Divorce and Guardianship in Saudi Arabia
Tasneem Alsultan was married for four years before she confided in others what she had known for a long time: her marriage wasn’t how a…
Netanyahu needs 20 special agents to go to the bathroom
How many special agents does it take to escortBenjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, to the bathroom? Around 20. On Tuesday, Bibi, in New…
King Mohammed VI ends ordeal of Moroccan woman jailed in Saudi Arabia
The Moroccan Arabic-speaking news website Chouf TV revealed that the Moroccan king has interfered personally to put an end to the tragedy of Lamiaa Moatamid,…
Abbas: 2017 should mark end of Israeli occupation
President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas has called on the international community to make efforts to turn 2017 into the final year of Israel’s…
Resettlement policy of the Russian empire in the Caucasus Part II
Since ancient times, in order to consolidate their political power, conqueror-states, such as the Sassanids, and later the Arab Caliphate carried out the resettlement policy…
In Israel, Modern Orthodoxy embraces the religious LGBTs — partly
When Ben Katz witnessed the violence that beset the 2015 Jerusalem Gay Pride parade, which saw an ultra-Orthodox man go on a stabbing rampage that…