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  • Afghanistan
    5.7m Afghan refugees return in past decade

    Returning migrants are increasingly avoiding rural areas of their origins and moving to urban areas, especially Kabul, in search of security and livelihoods.

  • Pakistan-India
    Five more civilians killed in worst India-Pakistan fighting for years

    The fighting comes at a time of changing power dynamics in South Asia, with Pakistan's army taking a more assertive role in politics and India's new nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi promising a more muscular foreign policy. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been weakened by opposition protests that started in August. He won the army's backing but in the process ceded space to the generals on some issues, including relations with India.

  • Celebrities and Islam
    Bill Maher And Ben Affleck Have A Fierce Debate Over Radical Islam

    Ben Affleck appeared on "Real Time With Bill Maher" on Friday to promote his latest film, "Gone Girl." But Affleck didn't leave without getting into a heated debate with Maher over radical Islamic principles. Affleck and Maher -- joined at a roundtable by Sam Harris, Nicholas Kristof, and Michael Steele -- fiercely battled after the 42-year-old actor called Maher's criticism of the religion "gross and racist."

  • Oil
    Saudi Arabia absorbs lower oil prices

    As the price of Brent crude continues its seemingly relentless slide – down more than 20 per cent since a mid-June high of $115 a barrel to $90 on Wednesday – a number of conspiracy theories have started to do the rounds.

  • Iran Negotiations
    P5+1 Nuclear Talks with Iran Down to the Wire

    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters this week that a deal between Iran and the P5+1 is “95 percent complete.” At the same time, he acknowledged that the final five percent yet to be agreed covers some of the most difficult issues on the table. In bilateral talks between the US and Iran, the Obama Administration has made significant new concessions that approach Washington’s own “red line.” The US is prepared to allow Iran to maintain as many as 4,500 centrifuges, while limiting the size of Iran’s stockpile of five percent enriched uranium. Washington has even conceded that the quantity of uranium reserves can be increased at any future time that Iran can demonstrate a genuine need. Right now, Iran has a contract with Russia to receive all of the necessary fuel rods for the Bushehr reactor through 2019. And although there are agreements in principle between Moscow and Tehran to build at least one new reactor, no final deal has been yet signed.

  • Libya
    Libya’s Legitimacy Crisis

    While much of the world’s attention has been fixated on the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), Libya has been tearing itself asunder. Its airports lie in smoking ruins, foreign diplomats have fled, and its once outspoken civil society has been cowed through a spate of assassinations.

  • Haj Rituals
    Fat sheep, fat price for Saudi Eid festivities

    "There are fewer sheep than last year," says Asef Nemah, a vendor who just arrived at the Yasamin Eid market with a truckload of the Naimy breed from about 70 kilometres outside the capital. The smiling Nemah, with hands on his hips and a red-check shemagh wrapped around his head, says sheep are not coming this year from war-torn Syria, which traditionally had been a key supplier.

  • UK and Aghanistan
    Britain’s Cameron on Surprise Visit to Afghanistan

    Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday pledged support for Afghanistan's newly sworn-in president and the country's new unity government, saying during a surprise visit to Kabul that Britain is committed to helping Afghans build a more secure and prosperous future.

  • ISIS and Human Rights
    Islamic State committing ‘staggering’ crimes in Iraq: U.N. report

    Islamic State insurgents in Iraq have carried out mass executions, abducted women and girls as sex slaves, and used child soldiers in what may amount to systematic war crimes that demand prosecution, the United Nations said on Thursday. In a report based on 500 interviews with witnesses, also said Iraqi government air strikes on the Sunni Muslim militants had caused "significant civilian deaths" by hitting villages, a school and hospitals in violation of international law.

  • Egyptian Economy
    Egyptians’ Views on Life, Economy Starting to Rebound

    After a tumultuous year of political turmoil, violence, and at times international isolation, Egyptians seem to be turning a corner. The percentage of Egyptians who rate their lives poorly enough to be considered "suffering" has been cut in half, dropping to 16% this June, one year after hitting a record high of 34%. At the same time, the percentage who rate their lives highly enough to be considered "thriving" has nearly doubled over the same time period, rising from 9% to 17%.