Kurdish leader says Mosul battle plans ready, could be concluded by year-end
Military plans to retake Mosul from Islamic State are ready and the northern Iraqi city might be recaptured before the end of the year, the…
How many Yemenis need to die before we stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia?
With US lawmakers gearing up to block a proposed billion-dollar sale of US arms to Saudi Arabia over concerns at mounting civilian deaths in Yemen,…
Excluding the people
Iranian women′s rights activist Darya Safai fights the stadium ban for Iranian women from her exile in Brussels. An interview on her protest during the…
Iran, European firms ink deal to co-op in internet sector
Iran’s Telecommunications Infrastructure Company (TIC) and Germany’s DE-CIX (Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange), the largest internet exchange in the world by peak data rate, signed a…
Egypt needs to enact penalties for female circumcision
A leading international rights group on Friday called on Egypt to enact new and harsher legal penalties for the widespread practice of female genital mutilation….
Clinton Pledges No US Ground Troops In Iraq, Syria
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has reiterated that she will not put US ground troops into Iraq and Syria in the military campaign against the…
NATO chief hails U.S.-Turkey “closer cooperation” in Syria
NATO chief welcomed on Thursday, September 8 closer cooperation between its key partners U.S.and Turkey in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria,…
Over 1 million expected at Dubai Intl Airport during Eid Al Adha holidays
Eid Al Adha holiday traffic will top one million passengers at Dubai International Airport over the next four days as travellers seek a quick escape…
US airlines discriminate Muslims
Airlines in the United States are being accused of racial profiling and pandering to Islamophobia by ejecting a number of Muslim passengers from flights. In…
A fresh blow to Abbas
Just a mounth ago, the municipal elections that were slated to be held in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on October 8 were…