KUWAIT: Calls by Sunni clerics for a war against the Syrian government and its Shias allies are fuelling radicalism in the region, a senior Iranian official said on Wednesday.
Earlier this month, prominent cle...
The attempt of the US State Department to open negotiations with the Taliban, who now have an office in Doha, Qatar, foundered on a series of SNAFUs on Wednesday. First, the Taliban put up a sign at their office in Doha that implied it was the embassy of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the pre-2001 [...]
Textile workers in some poor countries like Bangladesh can make less than $100 a month. One factory in the Dominican Republic is trying something different: It's paying workers $500 a month. The company has yet to break even after three years, but the CEO says the business is growing rapidly and he believes it will be profitable.
CNN profiles Iran’s new president Hassan Rouhani and interviews Hillary Mann Leverett: The USG Open Source Center translated the first news conference held by newly elected President Hassan Rouhani of Iran. Some excerpts are presented below, ordered in pyramid form with the most important first (out of the sequence of hte original). Iranian President-Elect Addresses [...]
Perhaps the best words to express the beginning of the resistance in Ankara belong to the Turkish poet Orhan Veli Kanık: “Everything happened all of a sudden!” We had been following the developments in Gezi Park for four days. These developments w...
[NOTE: Angara is an alternative pronunciation of the name Ankara, which reflects the peculiarities of the city and the country.]
The Political Atmosphere Leading Towards Gezi Park Process
It can be said that the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) was bo...
The presidential duties from Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will soon be transferred to the new president, Hassan Rouhani, Fars news agency reported.
Dr. Ghazi Hamad, a political leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) revealed, Wednesday, that political leaders of Hamas held meetings with several European ambassadors and officials, and with senior American leaders. ...
Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki says Iran’s President-elect Hojjatoleslam Hassan Rohani is capable of resolving major problems in the region and the Muslim world.
Hooman Majd is the grandson of an ayatollah, son of a career diplomat, and related by marriage to former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami. Born in Tehran, he spent his formative years globe-trotting for his father’s work and was educated in ...
Murad Yazberdiyev was appointed Turkmenistan’s Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania, the Turkmen government said. According to the statement, Yazberdiyev will also continue to carry out his diplomatic mission in B...
ISLAMABAD: Months-long painstaking and secret negotiations involving Islamabad and Washington have yielded a detailed roadmap for steering negotiations with the Afghan Taliban which will start to unfold with t...
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has congratulated Iranian President-elect Hojjatoleslam Hassan Rohani on his victory in Iran’s 11th presidential election, saying that Islamabad seeks to develop ties with the new administration of Iran.
The head of the Central Bank of Syria, Adib Mayaleh, said Tuesday that the bank would draw on a USD 1 billion credit line from Iran in order to stabilize the pound after it plummeted to a record low against the dollar this week.
Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants.
