New Saudi king announces major government shake-up
• http://www.channelnewsasia.com,Saudi Arabia's new King Salman has announced a cabinet reshuffle, as well as bonuses for civil servants, students and pensioners.
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Saudi Arabia's new King Salman has announced a cabinet reshuffle, as well as bonuses for civil servants, students and pensioners.
Conventional wisdom on Greece is that Syriza will win but will fall short of winning a sufficient margin to avoid having to form a coalition.
The Argentine prosecutor who accused President Cristina Fernandez of orchestrating a cover-up in the investigation of Iran over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center has been found shot dead in his apartment,
When a raiding party from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant attacked a Saudi border post last week, it was no mere hit on a desert outpost.
A court in Egypt has overturned the convictions for embezzlement of former President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons and ordered a retrial.
The bodies haven't been buried and the killers are on the loose, but that didn't prevent anti-Islam politicians across Europe from seizing on the Jan. 7 massacre in Paris.
No Word on Casualties From Latest Attack
Israel's police said Wednesday they are investigating dozens of public figures and politicians in a major corruption case that could impact upcoming elections.
The border post will remain open only for two days, official says
Being a superpower has its drawbacks. One of them is being manipulated by smaller countries that know that America wants to be "Big Man on Campus" in the world, usually giving its taxpayers only vague "influence" around the globe for all the money th
James and JoAnne Moriarty have posted these interviews, articles, and information about the wars in the Middle East that paints the U.S. as the bad guy...
When a journalist tries to do a historian's job, the outcome can be quite interesting.
The questionable continuance of the NATO alliance after the Cold War ended is demonstrated by Turkey's reluctance to help against the rampaging group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
US Mideast relationships get stranger every day. The US has come to the defense or has given aid to three rather unlikely groups in the past few weeks.
He accused McCain of supporting Israel's Mossad intelligence agency as well as participating "together with that service in the creation of the Islamic State, which today controls a considerable and vital portion of Iraq and reportedly one-third
My recent book, The Failure of Counterinsurgency: Why Hearts and Minds Are Seldom Won, which summarizes the lessons learned from many historical wars against irregular armies such as IS, concludes that is almost impossible to win against guerrillas b
As the NATO summit in Wales kicks off today, with an expected agreement to create a "spearhead" force of up to 5,000 troops to rapidly deploy to any "hotspot" in eastern Europe, we learn that the US will also send several hundred troops to participat
Libya warned the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that the chaotic North African state could descend into full-scale civil war if heavily armed warring factions are not disarmed.
Right on schedule and as many researchers, including myself, predicted, the Western-backed and engineered rise of ISIS across Iraq and the most likely staged Foley beheading video is now being used as justification for the violation of Syrian airspac
IMF to Fund Ukraine Wars?
A businesswoman who will receive 50 lashes for merely insulting the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, or the Saudi morality police. Of course, the Saudi morality police is widely ridiculed and denounced as a
Kalashnikov-wielding robbers have attacked the motorcade of a Saudi prince in Paris, making off with 250,000 euros ($335,000) in cash and reportedly stealing "sensitive" documents, French police said Monday.
US Sending 600 Troops, APCs And Tanks To Countries Bordering Russia To "Reassure Threatened Allies"
Destroyed as "idolatry" by those currently running Mosul. These people are seriously messed up.
The United States shut down its embassy in Libya on Saturday and evacuated its diplomats to neighboring Tunisia on security concerns in Tripoli, reports said.
When the history is finally written about this latest bout of fighting in Iraq, it's a safe bet that the ebooks will describe the fighting as the strangest war/conflict/combat to grace the annals of conflict in quite some time. Take last week's bout
As Israel's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza reaches it third day and rockets continue to fall in Israel, we map the targets of military strikes from each side
Saudi Arabia's medieval legal system added a new outrage to its record: Saudi lawyer and reform advocate Waleed Abulkhair was sentenced on Sunday to 15 years in prison and a 15-year travel ban (to start after his release).
After the United States delayed a sale of fighter jets to Iraq, Russia sold planes to the Iraqi government. Now they've sent military experts to Baghdad. Gen. Anwar Hama Ameen, who heads the Iraqi air force, explained that the
"Sykes-Picot is dead," Walid Jumblatt roared at me last night – and he may well be right.