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Kuwait faces a wave of bankruptcies as the COVID-19 crisis wreaks havoc on the emirate’s economy, which is in desperate need of reform. Al-Monitor Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber...

By Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker (Foreign Affairs) In our essay “Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold,” for the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs, we described the struggle against COVID-19...

Neither Pressure Nor a Narrow Nuclear Deal Can Succeed on Its Own By Elisa Catalano Ewers, Ilan Goldenberg, and Kaleigh Thomas (Foreign Affairs) Only nine months ago, the United States...

Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera) As we approach the second anniversary of the state-sponsored assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia continues its retreat, losing direction and influence in the...

ANDREW BACEVICH In this year’s presidential election campaign, candidates have largely sidestepped the role of armed force as an instrument of U.S. policy. The United States remains the world’s preeminent...

By Philip Giraldi August 07, 2019 "Information Clearing House" - If you have been wondering when the twenty Democratic aspirants for the presidency will begin a serious discussion of American...

Bruce Riedel American troops are coming back 16 years after they left Saudi Arabia, King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud announced on Saturday. According to press reports hundreds of American...

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian My old mother is very ill, and so I have spent the last couple of weeks with her in Iran. My stay here has afforded me...

During a speech May 22 to university students, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed a number of significant issues, including the future of the country’s political system and the...

By Rajan Kumar As Sri Lanka endeavours to overcome the enormity of the Islamic State (IS) coordinated terrorist attack which killed 253 people last month, there are reasons for the...

Alphabet Inc's Google has barred phone maker Huawei from some updates to the Android operating system, in a blow to the Chinese technology company that the US government has sought...

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump issued an ominous warning to Iran on Sunday, suggesting that if the Islamic republic attacks American interests, it will be destroyed. "If Iran wants to...

Makram Najmuddine (al-monitor) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo decided May 8 to cancel his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and instead head to Iraq. The top US diplomat...

Alireza Noori (al-monitor) May 10 Amid rising US pressure, Iran and Russia appear to be gearing toward forging closer military and defence ties. Last week, the commander of the regular...

Bruce Riedel (al-monitor.com) As the United States ups the pressure on Iran, the Donald Trump administration is relying on Tehran's archenemy and long time US ally Saudi Arabia to shore...

Laura Rozen (al-monitor.com) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Thursday urged Iran to call him, and said the United States and Iran could make a fair deal. “What I would like...

New Delhi: American news magazine Time has featured Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the cover page of its May 20 issue with a headline that may create controversy across the...

What the World’s Diplomats Really Think of Trump’s Endgame in Iran By Sanam Vakil (Foreign Affairs) A year ago, U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal on...

Hamidreza Azizi US President Donald Trump’s recent decision not to extend the sanctions waivers for the purchase of Iranian oil has been met with widespread reaction around the world. One...

Teheran: As a third day of protests erupted across major Iranian cities over the country’s worsening economic situation, the clergy in Iran is looking inward. Rather than only pointing the...

“It’s good for the country, good for them, good for us and good for the world. No preconditions. If they want to meet, I’ll meet,” US President Donald Trump said at a...

By C. Christine Fair (Foreign Affairs) Newcomers to Pakistani politics greeted the outcome of Wednesday’s general election—an apparent victory for former cricket star Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party—with optimism. They were...

Teheran: After the Iranian authorities arrested Instagram dancer Maedeh Hojabri and forced her to confess to violating "moral norms" on state television, Iranians have begun posting their own dancing videos to show support....

Teheran: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani  is not giving in to conservative and reformist critics in the wake of growing protests over the miserable state of Iran’s economy, instead intensifying his...

The purse-string holders in the Senate today cleared an annual foreign aid spending bill that allocates $150 million in Syrian stabilization assistance in an apparent rebuke of Trump’s aid freeze....

Beirut: Another layer in the battle for Syria has been evident for years yet has only now come to the world’s attention. To Iran and Israel, this battle lies at the...

Baghdad: In the wake of the sudden coalition deal struck between Muqtada al-Sadr's Sairoon Alliance and the pro-Iran Fatah Alliance on June 12, the allied parties seem to be trying to soften...

Singapore: US President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un concluded an extraordinary summit on Tuesday with lofty promises by the American president to take care of a "very dangerous...

New Delhi: On June 19, 2014 a few miles outside Noma, Alaska, a biologist Wally Johnson trapped a male Pacific Golden Plover sitting on a nest.  After weighing and measuring...

Riyadh, June 5: Abandoning its rigid and decades old anti-women policies the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia today issued driver’s licences to 10 women. So far women in Saudi Arabia were...

The Gap Between Expectations and Reality By Joseph Yun Over the past few weeks, the on again-off again U.S.–North Korean summit has drawn a considerable amount of attention to the question...

Belgium: Attacker who shot dead 2 cops and took school cleaning lady hostage killed by police after rampage in eastern city of Liege Belgian news website DHnet.be reported. The attacker...

Reasons behind worst relationship between two middle east nations: Saudi Arabia and Iran

Ankara : Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s coalition scored major points in the recent parliamentary elections with Sadr’s positions against virulent influence peddling and the presence of foreign military forces...

Islamabad, May 24: A Pakistani university has asked male and female students to maintain a distance of six inches when together, causing an uproar in social media against the varsity’s...

London: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been awarded new royal titles by Queen Elizabeth II as the couple tie the knot in Windsor, U.K., on Saturday (May 19, 2018)....

By Sarah Frier (Bloomberg.com) San Francisco: Twitter Inc is taking another step to reduce the amount of harmful content on its site, this time expanding the effort beyond users who...

Gaza City May 16: Israel is facing a growing backlash and new charges of using excessive force, a day after Israeli troops firing from across a border fence killed 59...

Urban Mirror Correspondent New Delhi, May 4: The controversial Cambridge Analytica (CA), the consultancy firm for political parties, has closed down the operation. The CA, facing legal cases in several...

There is tremendous   concern over the way precious time and taxpayers money was lost during the  just concluded Budget session of Parliament.It was shocking that around 250 hours of the...

Make those at the top accountableV.S.Pandey                                                                                                                       Former Secretary,Government  of India . Last week former Secretary , Coal, Government of India ,  Mr H.C.Gupta was convicted by the CBI court...