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Qatar

Egyptian-born cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi is seen in a photo with Zahran Hashim (R) and Syed Salman Nadvi (L) in Qaradawi’s office in Doha. (Al Arab)

What's Qaradawi doing with the suspected perpetrators of Sri Lanka blasts?

Tunisia

Tunisian security forces arrive to close down the private Nessma television channel on April 25, 2019 in Rades, southeast the capital Tunis. (AFP)

Tunisian police switch off broadcasts of private TV station

Syria

Members of the Syrian Civil Defence, also known as the White Helmets, search the rubble of a collapsed building following an explosion in the town of Jisr al-Shughur, in the rebel-held Syrian province of Idlib, April 24. (AFP)

Syria negotiators in Kazakhstan for talks

Iraq

A file photo shows Iraq's oil minister Thamer Ghadhban at the oil ministry in Baghdad, 2018. (Reuters)

Iraq says has enough oil capacity to meet customer needs

Algeria

Then Algerian Energy Minister Chakib Khelil listens to the opening speech at the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting in Algiers, in this February 10, 2004 file photo. (Reuters)

Energy sector focus of Algeria corruption probe

Yemen

Saudi Arabia's Deputy Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman attends the annual Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS) in Moscow, April 24. (Reuters)

Saudi minister: Yemen's Houthis ignoring calls for political solution

Latest Issue

Issue: 202 | Sun, April 21, 2019

Top Stories

S-400 purchase leaves Turkey’s NATO future in limbo

US stance gives Haftar momentum in push to curb extremists in Tripoli

Saudi Arabia and the UAE work to gain confidence of new Sudan rulers

Mohammed Alkhereiji

Is anti-Zionism a form of anti-Semitism? Even US Jews are divided on the issue

Referendum to extend Sisi’s mandate

Iraq aims to be ‘meeting point’ for regional rivals

Mamoon Alabbasi

Opinion

Lessons Algeria and Sudan can learn from other transitions

Oussama Romdhani

Remembering the Lebanese civil war, 44 years on

Is Russia-Iran marriage of convenience unravelling in Syria?

The West should keep an open mind; maybe Haftar is right

Ibrahim Zobeidi

Sisi will extend his rule but will he ensure its stability?

Mahmud el-Shafey

Istanbul setback means an unpredictable future for Erdogan

What ISIS defeat means for Europe’s domestic terror threat

Editorial

Immigration

Passengers collect their luggage from the baggage reclaim area of Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport in west London. (AFP)

Who’s afraid of immigration

Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the presidential palace in Ankara, April 9. (AP)

Erdogan’s misadventures at home and abroad

Sudan

Sudanese protesters from the city of Atbara, sitting atop a train, arrive at the Bahari station in Khartoum on April 23, 2019. (AFP)

Sudan protesters pledge 'million march' for civilian rule

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Minister of Energy Khalid al-Falih speaks during financial sector conference in Riyadh, April 24. (Reuters)

Saudi energy minister: 'Will be responsive to our customers'

Egypt

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (C) meets with African leaders at the Troika Summit on the security situation in Libya, April 23. (Egyptian Presidency via DPA)

African leaders urge 'peaceful' transition in Sudan, ceasefire in Libya

Lebanon

Foreign nationals working as domestics workers take part in a parade to mark May Day and to highlight their plight on May 1, 2016, in the Lebanese capital Beirut. (AFP)

Amnesty International urges Lebanon to help end domestic worker abuse

Yemen

an unidentified de-miner holds a deactivated mine near Marib, Yemen. (WAM via AP)

Rebel land mines in Yemen hinder aid efforts

Egypt

Egyptian men cast their ballot at a polling station during the third day of a referendum on constitutional amendments, in the northern Nile delta province of Menoufia, April 22. (AFP)

Egypt voters approve referendum extending president's rule

Tunisia

This photo dated, Thursday, February 2, 2017 shows the Habib Bourguiba avenue which is the central thoroughfare of Tunis and considered the historical political and economic heart of Tunisia. (AP)

Deradicalisation, an imminent challenge for Tunisia

Stephen Quillen

Iraq

Shunned out. A widow of an ISIS militant displays her husband’s death certificate, issued by ISIS, at a legal clinic in Mosul. (AP)

Thousands of Iraqi families bear the burden of ISIS stigma

Algeria

Chief of Algeria oil giant Sonatrach replaced

Algeria

In this file photo taken on January 30, 2014, Issad Rebrab, Algerian entrepreneur and CEO of CEVITAL industrial group, poses in his office in Algiers. (AFP)

Algeria's richest man held in jail in graft probe

Palestine

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (3rd L) visits a site at a junction leading to the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, March 18. (Reuters)

After Netanyahu's re-election, experts raise questions about peace process

Egypt

Security personnel stand guard outside a church after a bomb blast in Negombo, Sri Lanka April 21, 2019. (Reuters)

Arab nations, Al Azhar condemn Sri Lanka blasts

Books

A view of the opening ceremony of the UNESCO's World Book Capital for 2019 is seen in Sharjah, April 23. (Sharjah World Book 2019 via AFP)

UAE’s Sharjah named 2019 World Book Capital

Sports

A file photo shows Spanish football president Luis Rubiales during a press conference in Krasnodar, Russia, 2018. (Reuters)

Spanish Super Cup could be played in Saudi Arabia

Egypt

An image grab from a video showing the newly-uncovered Egyptian mummies.

Egyptian archaeologists uncover ancient tomb with mummies

Culture

A touch of magic. Belgian band Hooverphonic performs during the 14th Jazz a Carthage Festival in Tunis. (Jazz a Carthage)

Carthage festival consecrates Tunisia’s love affair with jazz

Travel

The roofless Qasr al-Abed in Iraq al-Amir near Amman. (Rana Naber)

Iraq al-Amir: Jordan’s springtime archaeological attraction

Society

Granules of tradition. Algerian Berber women prepare couscous in the village of Ait el-Kecem, south of Tizi-Ouzou. (AFP)

Maghreb bid to secure world heritage status for Couscous