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With Assad gone, Middle East battle lines are redrawnIt took just 11 days for Syrian rebels to force Bashar al-Assad to flee the country and impose a new revision of the strategic map in the M...
Syria's Baath party oversaw half a century of repressionSyria's Baath party, under the Assad dynasty, ruled with an iron fist for over five decades. Hafez al-Assad seized power in a 1970 coup, es...
Bashar Assad: How a novice eye doctor and his minority family ruled Sunni-majority Syria for half a centurySyria War: After over five decades of rule, the Assad family's reign in Syria has ended with the fall of Damascus and President Bashar al-A...
Why rebel capture of Syria's Hama, city with dark history, mattersSyrian rebels seized Hama, a city etched in memory by the 1982 massacre. The insurgents removed a poster of President Bashar Assad. Hama's ...
Islamic Jihad Group: The role they play in Israel-Palestine conflict, overview of key attacksThe explosion at the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City resulted in casualties. According to the Hamas-run Health Ministry, it was attributed ...
In first, Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi addresses Palestinians in GazaThis unprecedented speech culminates years of quiet diplomacy aimed at mending a rift between the Hamas militant group and Iran following t...
PFI maintaining close ties with radical Turkish group which provides arms to Syrian jihadistsAccording to a Nordic Monitor report, E M Abdul Rahiman and Professor P Koya, members of the PFI's national executive council, were private...
Syria: Assad dynasty's half century in powerHafez al-Assad, Syria's defence minister and the father of Bashar al-Assad, takes power in a military coup on November 16, 1970 that ousts ...
View: Despite his tone of reconciliation, Erdogan remains a populist with a radical ideologyDespite the deadline to withdraw all forces in Libya, Turkey’s troops remain present on the battleground along with mercenaries affiliated ...
Iranian prez hails India as living museum of religious diversityThe visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has applauded India’s religious diversity and called for unity between the Shia and Sunni com...
Donald Trump set to order ban on immigration from Muslim countriesTrump is expected to order the construction of the border wall with Mexico, the first in a series of actions to bolster national security, ...
Filmmakers trying to make sense of the Arab spring on its sixth anniversaryFilmmakers are working round the clock to make sense of the revolution and its aftermath that still has the Arab societies in a spin.
Pope washes feet of Muslim migrants, says 'we are brothers'Several of the migrants then wept as Francis knelt before them, poured holy water from a brass pitcher over their feet, wiped them clean an...
Former US military intelligence chief: We knew something like ISIS was comingThe former head of one of the US govt's leading intelligence divisions says that the US believed that religious extremists could carve out ...
UAE ready to cooperate with others to tackle spread of IS: Anwar bin Mohammed GargashUAE has said it is ready to cooperate with other nations to tackle the spread of IS terrorist group that threatens the political systems in...
Will democracy smile in Egypt?The chaos in Cairo may have taken the romance off the Tahrir Square moment. But it’s unlikely that the country will fall to the Muslim Brot...
- Democratic Islam: Despite apprehensions, the world must engage with this phenomenon
Democratic processes and institutions must evolve in the region and, to aid that, the world must engage with political Islam.