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U.S. President Barack Obama takes part in a summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia April 21, 2016.REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Obama and Repairing the State-of-Affairs

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Apr 24, 2016 | Opinion

This could be the last visit for President Barack Obama -as the U.S. President- meeting with the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz along with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders. The summit signified the second chapter of the first Camp...

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US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on April 22, 2016 in New York. / AFP PHOTO / Bryan R. Smith

Hundreds of Scholars Denounce IRGC Prying into Iranian Politics

by Adil Alsalmi | Apr 24, 2016 | Middle East

London- In light of a widening rift among the Iranian regime, hundreds of instructors, who belong to the higher education sector and are affiliated with 72 different universities in Iran, sent out an open letter to the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in which they...

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UN Secretary General Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed opens with delegations from Sanaa at the Yemen peace talks in Switzerland Tuesday,UN- Reuters

Insurgency Delegation Hampers Yemeni Peace Talks

by Arafat Madabesh and Saeed al-Abyad | Apr 24, 2016 | Middle East

Kuwait- Ongoing deliberations that have commenced among Yemeni parties yesterday are yet to succeed in accomplishing an accord on corroborating the current ceasefire. The insurgency delegation proved to be extremely opinionated and would obstruct negotiations from...

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Iraqi soldiers guard their base in Makhmour, after it was freed from control of Islamic State, south of Mosul, April 17, 2016. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah

Two Killed in Kurd-Shi’ite Clashes in Northern Iraq

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 24, 2016 | Middle East

Iraqi security sources reported clashes erupting between Kurdish and Shi’ite Turkmen paramilitary forces late on Saturday in northern Iraq, killing at least two fighters and cutting a strategic road between Baghdad and the oil city of Kirkuk. Lately, the city of...

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Opinion: Iran – The “Golden Age” That Was Not

by Amir Taheri | Apr 24, 2016 | Opinion

It is now weeks that Iran’s political-clerical circles are abuzz about an “open letter” written to President Hassan Rouhani by Mehdi Karrubi, a former Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis) who has been under house arrest since 2009 after challenging...