‘Trapped by all the sides’ in Yemen’s largely ignored war
The streets are eerily silent in this front-line enclave near Freedom Square, where thousands of protesters rose up against the government five years ago. The…
Qatar Introduces Hefty Fine for Oil Product Smuggling
The emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, has issued a new law envisaging fines of up to 1 million rials (US$275,000) and…
Why the UAE needs more cyber-savvy people
UAE residents have to be more cyber-savvy when it comes to protecting their privacy online, recent research has revealed. In a study carried out by…
Turkey needs fewer enemies within
On Tuesday night, just as millions of Muslims in Istanbul were ending their Ramadan fasts, three terrorists attacked the city’s busy airport. They fired randomly…
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman meets Sudanese president
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman received Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, Qatari Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser al-Thani and Kuwaiti National Assembly Speaker…
Dubai can take London’s place of a financial center
One of the first interviews I did in the Middle East was of Moe Ghashim, the CEO of Shopgo, a firm that helps small businesses…
Bahrain: Bomb shrapnel kills woman, wounds 3 kids
A woman was killed and three children wounded when their car was hit by shrapnel from a bomb in a restive Shiite-majority district outside the…
493 inmates died in Egyptian prisons
The Arab Organisation for Human Rights (AOHR) based in London has warned of the continuous official Egyptian negligence to the heat wave which has struck…
Will Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi be granted amnesty?
Mixed news was revealed late yesterday about the correctness of a leaked document explaining the legal opinion about whether the general amnesty law in Libya…
Australian court gave 2-year suspended sentence to wife of Daesh terrorist
The widow of an Australian Daesh terrorist received a suspended two-year, three-month jail sentence for providing assistance to her husband fighting in Syria. Fatima Elomar,…