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  • Afghanistan
    How Afghans Feel About the Direction of Their Country

    In its tenth annual public opinion survey in Afghanistan, Afghanistan in 2014: A Survey of the Afghan People, the Asia Foundation polled over nine thousand citizens across all thirty-four Afghan provinces. While insecurity remains the top public concern, 48.5 percent of those surveyed cited economic growth as the biggest problem confronting the nation today.

  • Boston Marathon Bombing
    Glenn Beck loses bid to dismiss Saudi’s libel suit

    A federal judge has rejected a bid by conservative commentator Glenn Beck to toss out a libel lawsuit filed by a Saudi student Beck repeatedly accused of funding the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

  • Pipeline to Europe
    The world’s first pipeline war has officially come to an end

    One of the strangest wars of modern times—a seven-year-long pipeline dispute that pitted the United States against Russia for influence in Europe—has ended.

  • Israeli Politics
    Israel headed to elections: Lapid rejects Netanyahu’s terms for saving coalition

    Finance Minister Yair Lapid late Monday rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ultimatums presented to him in a meeting billed as a last-ditch attempt to preserve the coalition. Netanyahu demanded that Lapid stop “sabotaging the work of the government,” retract his opposition to Netanyahu’s version of the Jewish nation-state bill, and freeze the zero-VAT plan, the flagship of Lapid’s economic agenda.

  • Bahrain
    Between ISIS and Iran: Bahrain Tweaks Washington

    Such is the background to this weekend's "Manama Dialogue," an annual event organized by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies and hosted by Bahrain. Manama will want to show off its role in the anti-ISIS coalition while also emphasizing the threats posed by a nuclear Iran, which it blames for subversion among its Shiite population. The third leg of the stool is Bahrain's political system, for which last week's elections are a probably short-term fix. But for how long it will remain stable is uncertain.

  • Healthcare
    Saudi Arabia Liberalises Investment Rules In Healthcare Sector

    As per the new regulations, experienced healthcare professionals will be allowed to move freely within institutions in the Kingdom in an effort to improve efficiency. The amended regulations will also allow citizens who are not healthcare professionals to run hospitals in the country. Previously, only Saudi doctors or healthcare professionals were allowed to operate and manage medical institutions, local daily Saudi Gazette reported. In addition, the new rules will also allow global healthcare companies to invest in Saudi Arabia, the ministry of health said in a statement.

  • Palestinians in Jersualem
    Rage in Jerusalem

    When it conquered the eastern part of Jerusalem and the West Bank – both administered by Jordan – in 1967, Israel expanded the city’s municipal boundaries threefold. As a result, approximately 37 per cent of Jerusalem’s current residents are Palestinian. They have separate buses, schools, health facilities, commercial centres, and speak a different language.

  • Traffic Safety
    Road rage and the value of feeling safe in Saudi Arabia

    The traffic situation in the Saudi city of Jeddah has reached an almost unbearable point – both for motorists and pedestrians.

  • Tourism
    Saudi Arabia to set up new tourism info center

    The Saudi government is planning to set up a tourist information centre to provide increased and more accurate information to local and foreign tourists, said a report.

  • Qatar
    Qatar bars US couple from leaving after acquittal

    An American couple cleared Sunday by a Qatari appeals court of wrongdoing in the death of their 8-year-old adopted daughter has been barred from leaving the Middle Eastern country just hours after they were told they were free to go.