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Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar (L) and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, US Air Force General Tod Wolters, speak at a NATO meeting in Brussels, last June. (Reuters)

US-Turkey ‘safe zone’ augurs fracturing of Syria into foreign areas of influence

News & Analysis

Disabled Muslim pilgrims attend the final walk around the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, August 13. (AFP)

Haj ends with no organisational glitch, Saudis lauded

Mohammed Alkhereiji

Yemen

Yemenis demonstrate in support of the Southern Transitional Council in the Khormaksar district of Yemen’s second city of Aden, August 15. (AFP)

New twist in Yemen conflict as STC takes over Aden

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Supporters of the Tahya Tounes party celebrate after Prime Minister Youssef Chahed submitted his candidacy for the presidential elections in Tunisia, August 9. (AFP)

Variegated election landscape reflects changed face of Tunisian politics

Opinion

A file picture shows LNA fighters advancing on a road south of Tripoli. (AFP)

Muslim Brotherhood factor widens rift between Tripoli and Cairo

Iraq

A member of the Kurdish security forces examines debris at the site of an ISIS-claimed car bombing in the town of al-Qahtaniyah in the Hasakah province, August 7. (AFP)

Pentagon sees Iraq and Syria facing greater threat from ISIS, Iran proxies

Emily Przyborowski

Latest Issue

Issue: 217 | Sat, August 03, 2019

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Tunisia’s Islamist chief steps up to legislative race but presidential vote will go first

US, Iran drift apart as tough questions remain

Baghdad-Erbil disputes set to continue amid divisions in Kurdistan

Azhar Al-Rubaie

Saudi tourists shun Turkish destinations as government relations deteriorate

Mohammed Alkhereiji

Israeli parties submit election lists but no end seen to stalemate

Mamoon Alabbasi

Moroccan king seeks new development model, points out inadequacies

Opinion

The Southern Transitional Council has not just parachuted into the Yemeni crisis

Haitham El-Zobaidi

Is Israel transforming the Palestinian issue into religious conflict?

Hariri travels to Washington amid strained US-Lebanon ties

When some foreign interventions are more halal than others

Khairallah Khairallah

The white jihadist peril is with us

Rashmee Roshan Lall

How the West’s depiction of Prophet Mohammad has come a full circle

Arab culture suffers from a love blind spot

Editorial

Saudi Arabia

Muslim pilgrims perform the final walk around the Kaaba (Tawaf al-Wadaa), Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on August 13, 2019. (AFP)

Successful haj season

Yemen

An armoured vehicle belonging to forces of the Saudi-led international coalition supporting Yemen's internationally recognised government, on August 17. (AFP)

Developments in Yemen

Palestine

US Representative Ilhan Omar (R) speaks as US Representative Rashida Tlaib listens during a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington, last July. (AP)

Israel bars entry to US congresswomen, risks showdown with Democrats

Lebanon

Rival Druze leaders of Lebanon Walid Jumblatt (R) and Talal Arslan in Beirut. (NNA Lebanon)

Meeting at Baabda Palace ends Druze tensions

Iraq

A 2014 file picture shows ISIS fighters waving flags during a military parade along the streets of Syria’s northern Raqqa province. (Reuters)

ISIS names heir to Baghdadi from Saddam’s officer corps

Egypt

Yasser Borhami (C), deputy head of the Salafist Call, walks with his supporters in Alexandria. (Reuters)

Reinstatement of Salafist preacher angers moderates in Egypt

Hassan Abdel Zaher

Libya

A file picture shows a fighter with Libyan forces loyal to Sarraj government using a drone. (Reuters)

LNA targets Turkish drones as Tripoli fighting rages anew

News & Analysis

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) meets with Emmanuel Bonne, diplomatic adviser to the French president, in Tehran, July 10.(AFP)

Europe sides with UK over tanker row but shows no appetite for showdown with Iran

Maghreb

Moroccan activists gather during a demonstration in Casablanca against threats to a group of teenage Belgian volunteers who wore shorts while working at a construction site in the south of the country. (AFP)

Belgian volunteers in shorts spark controversy about radicalisation in Morocco

News & Analysis

An employee of the Egyptian Embassy checks documents of an expatriate national at the country’s embassy in Kuwait.(Reuters)

Egyptian expatriates struggle with red tape at home

Economy

Doctors treat a patient in Mosul.(AFP)

Violence pushing Iraq’s medical sector to the brink

Opinion

Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser speaks during the opening of a conference on refining and petrochemical industries in Manama, Bahrain. (Reuters)

Saudi Aramco financial report hints at early IPO

News & Analysis

A general view shows an oil installation on the outskirts of In Amenas in Algeria.(AFP)

Algeria’s oil sales soften blow but economic crisis looms

Turkey

People walk in the Fatih district in Istanbul. (AP)

Turkey’s war on Arabic signs reflects intolerance of Syrian refugees

Constanze Letsch

Culture

A general view of the Basra Museum in southern Iraq. (Courtesy of the Basra Museum)

Basra Museum comes with a view and a British-funded library

Karen Dabrowska

News & Analysis

Activists rest near an old building in Baghdad.(Courtesy of Burj Babel)

Iraqi NGO leads uphill battle to preserve country’s cultural heritage

News & Analysis

Doctors take blood samples at the Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan Hospital in Cairo. (AFP)

Medical brain drain endangers Egypt’s health care

Turkey

Minor damage from an earthquake is seen on a street in Bozkurt, in Denizli province, western Turkey, August 8. (AP)

20 years after deadly earthquake, Turkey is unprepared for expected new shock

Egypt

An Egyptian military officer looks at an ST-100 MRAP armoured vehicle at Egypt’s first Service Defence Exhibition in Cairo, last December. (AFP)

Potential deal with UAE boosts Egypt’s hopes to join ranks of arms exporters

Tunisia

The head of Tunisia’s Independent High Authority for Elections Nabil Baffoun (C) speaks during a news conference to announce the approved candidacies for the upcoming presidential election, August 14. (DPA)

Tunisia’s presidential elections too splintered to call