Anti-Shia hate propaganda spread by Sunni religious figures sponsored by, or based in, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies, is creating the ingredients for...
Journalist Glenn Greenwald did not hold back Friday in criticizing the media during a speech about his work with Edward Snowden. Greenwald, who reported...
Gulen and Erdogan now at odds The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has ordered the detention of 30 suspects, including a number of deputies...
Secret use of citizenship-stripping powers has been dramatically stepped up as Theresa May moves to prevent the return of dual-nationals who have gone to...
Corruption, a large and troublesome problem for Turkey, led to the demise of several governments in the past and analysts warn that the same...
The sender was unidentified, but the young engineer knew who the email was from as soon as he opened the attachment. Beneath a picture...
The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation offers its latest assessment of how many foreigners are fighting in Syria's civil war, which countries...
By Joby Warrick At first glance, the training camp appears no different from the many others shown in propaganda videos posted by al-Qaeda’s affiliate...
No weapons intended for war have been exported to Syria in 2013, Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz has said, while acknowledging that weapons “without military...
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani has welcomed recent agreements between Turkey and the Iraqi Kurdish administration on oil and natural gas...
"Never be afraid of tenderness"In this exclusive interview, Pope Francis speaks about Christmas, hunger in the world, the suffering of children, the reform of...
Radical Islamists embedded among the rebels in Syria are reportedly targeting foreign journalists for abduction. Instead of holding them for ransom, however, they use...
Salim Idris The top Western-backed Syrian rebel commander fled the country after Islamist militant fighters ran him out of his headquarters, U.S. officials said.Free...
Nusra fighters transporting weapons and munitions The United States and Britain suspended non-lethal aid to northern Syria after Islamist fighters seized Western-backed rebel weapons...
Abdulla Shahmola trudges up the road leading from Addis Ababa airport to the outskirts of the city, his battered black suitcase balanced precariously on...
Seymour M. Hersh Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was...
President Obama calling President Rouhani By Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston University Andrew J. Bacevich is a professor of history and international relations at Boston University...
Shi`a victims of suicide attacks World View: Everyone knows where al-Qa'ida gets its money, but while the violence is sectarian, the West does nothingDonors...
Now that he’s dead, and can cause no more trouble, Nelson Mandela is being mourned across the ideological spectrum as a saint. But not...
The spectre is looming of a second Syrian civil war with the head of the opposition’s official forces declaring that he is prepared to...
A new study by Carnegie Mellon University found that in the most Republican states in the country, employers may be less likely to interview...
The investigations have been carried out after three people were killed in Wadi al-Souf region in Yemen, it reported.“There is information showing that certain...
The Free Syrian Army commander leant against the door of his four-wheel drive BMW X5 with tinted windows and watched as his men waded...
İdris Bal The ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) Kütahya Deputy İdris Bal, who drew attention for his dissenting statements on several issues, announced...
DAMASCUS, Syria — In a terrace cafe within earshot of army artillery, a 28-year-old graduate student wept as she confessed that she had stopped...
The row between followers of the Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen’s movement of and the Turkish government took another dimension after a daily revealed Nov....
The Peace and Democracy Party’s (BDP) meeting in Istanbul’s Asian side district of Kadıköy in support of Syria’s Kurdish region Rojava turned violent on...
The daily reported that the authorities have prepared a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the anti-governmental protests spread across the country over summer, using...
Iran and six major powers agreed early Sunday on a historic deal that freezes key parts of Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for temporary...
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has launched the required procedural process for expelling a deputy who openly expressed views contrary to those...
The year is not ending on a high note for three men in the Saudi dynasty whose fingerprints were all over the military coup...
When the prince was the ambassador he was the toast of Washington, and plenty of toasts there were. Bandar bin Sultan smoked fine cigars...
Zarif asks the world: Would you back down from your right? ...
Construction companies in Qatar, which is experiencing a massive building boom ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, are involved in widespread abuse of...
ONCE they were sworn enemies. Now Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency is working with Saudi officials on contingency plans for a possible attack on Iran...
Tensions have been simmering in Saudi Arabia over the past week. Hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrant workers have risen up against the ruling...
The gas-rich Persian Gulf state, which is slightly smaller than Connecticut, wanted to host world-class sporting events; to build a network of top-tier universities...
The young man, who called himself Raïd, wasn't doing well. He climbed into the backseat of the car, in pain, careful not to touch...
US Senator John McCain joined a chorus of conservative American approval of France on Sunday, lavishing praise on Paris for blocking "a bad nuclear...
The dominance of a private-school educated elite and well-heeled middle class in the “upper echelons” of public life in Britain is “truly shocking”, Sir...
By Erich Follath The Southeast Asian island nation of Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, which practices an open-minded, gentle version of Islam...
Turkey and Iran said on Friday they had common concerns about the increasingly sectarian nature of Syria's civil war, signalling a thaw in a...
Bahrain's government is striking back at an international campaign to prevent it from buying huge amounts of teargas to repress protests in the Gulf...
Writing a book about Muslim fundamentalism, the subject of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here, felt like dancing in a minefield, admits Karima Bennoune....
Activists have begun posting videos of women in Saudi Arabia driving cars, as their one-day campaign to defy a ban on female drivers in...
Each year, the world is reminded of Saudi Arabia’s influential status as the birthplace of Islam, as hundreds of thousands of Muslims from across...
In an unprecedented move last Friday, Saudi Arabia turned down an offer by the United Nations to sit on the Security Council for two...
Foreigners fueled by Islamic fury are rushing to Syria to fight President Bashar Assad at a faster rate than the flow of rebels into...
On the day of his departure, warehouse manager Hussein Gilbana packed his five best shirts and pairs of pants into a black suitcase, together...
If you walked into any high school classroom in the United States and asked the students to describe their country's relationship with Iran, you'd...
These are troubling and uncertain times for Saudi diplomacy. A string of regional upsets and friction with the United States has cast the kingdom...
Editor's note: The following is the version of the interview with Syrian President Bashar Assad that ran in the Monday edition of SPIEGEL. Earlier...
The poison of sectarian hatred is spreading to Turkey from Syria as a result of the Turkish government giving full support to militant Sunni...
