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The Duke of York will be the keynote speaker at a conference in London this Friday celebrating Bahrain as a place of religious freedom and tolerance of divergent opinions. Speaking during a visit to Bahrain last month, he said: “I believe that what’s happening in Bahrain is a source of ...

The president of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, said Iraq had been led in an authoritarian direction by Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and threatened to end the oil-rich autonomous region’s participation in the federal government. Iraq held elections on April 30. The results have yet to be announced but Kurdish support ...

Thousands of Syrians and Shia pilgrims have celebrated the birthday anniversary of Imam Ali (AS) during a ceremony at the Sayyidah Zaynab shrine in the capital city of Damascus. According to Al-Alam correspondent, hundreds of Shia pilgrims form Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and other countries also took part in the ceremony. ...

To protect the innocent and to defeat the Assad dictatorship, Syrians should work with Israel to create a safe haven. I spent more than a decade in Syrian prisons and therefore know what kind of regime this is. It is one which believes that torture is a form of dialogue. ...

Israel might battle Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said yesterday. Gantz visited training camps in the north of the occupied West Bank. He said the deadline for peace talks came to an end on April 29 and the Israeli ...

As you reach Maadi Military Hospital on the outskirts of Cairo, a soldier guarding the main door asks you about the room you intend to visit. In this hospital near the Nile, resides ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Today, Mubarak will celebrate his 86th birthday. He is expected to make ...

It would be an understatement to say that Iran does not have an interest in the Iraqi parliamentary elections held April 30, and far too simplistic to conclude that Tehran is backing the current prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, for a third term. The Iran-Iraq relationship is a complex mosaic of ...

BEIRUT: The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant announced it had executed seven prisoners in its bastion in northeastern Syria on Tuesday, two of them by crucifixion. ISIL, which has been disavowed even by Al-Qaeda, said it held the seven responsible for a grenade attack on one of its fighters earlier this month in ...

The historic mosque of Sa’sa’a bin Suhan in Askar, south to Manama, has once again been attacked. The front doors and belongings of the mosque were broken down and vandalized. The repeated systematic attacks are carried out with unannounced official support. The mosque goes back to more than 1000 years. ...

RIYADH – The Saudi health ministry on Saturday announced five new deaths from the MERS coronavirus, taking the country’s death toll to 92. A statement released overnight added that 14 new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome were detected in the kingdom, bringing the total to 313 since the virus ...