They could have been a couple in love. And perhaps they were. In their own way. Rami Elhahan and Bassam Aramin. Men in their fifties. All the tell-tell signs were there. The eyes. The eyes. The way they met. Their lightness and the gentleness of touches. The slightest of smiles. Then unexpectedly their arms reach […]

Saudi Arabia has detained at least seven people, including two dual US-Saudi citizens, over their links to women’s rights activists, reports say. Those arrested are reportedly not frontline activists, but writers and bloggers who have discussed reform. They had already been under a travel ban since February, London-based Saudi rights group ALQST says. The latest […]

NEW YORK (GZERO MEDIA) – Turkey, a member of Nato, a key player in the Middle East, and a nation with US military bases. But is this authoritarian government an American ally? Dr Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, doesn’t think so and he shares his views on GZERO World. This video […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party has decided to lodge objections to local election results in all 39 Istanbul districts, the ‘Hurriyet’ newspaper said yesterday, after results showed a narrow lead for the main opposition candidate. The AK Party is on track to lose control of Turkey’s two biggest cities, Istanbul and Ankara, in […]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry accused the Trump administration on Tuesday of blocking efforts to aid Iranian victims of calamitous floods through “inhumane and cruel” restrictions imposed by renewed American banking sanctions on the country. The State Department denied the allegation, asserting that the United States stood ready to help. It said a botched response to the […]

TEHRAN — The authorities on Monday ordered the immediate evacuation of flood-stricken cities in western Iran as rivers burst banks, dams overflowed and vast areas were cut off from communication. The highest level of alert was declared in Lorestan Province with four or five cities “completely critical,” state television reported from Khorramabad, the provincial capital. […]

Despite Saturday night’s air strikes in Syria, the OPCW has said it will continue its fact-finding mission in Douma. Representatives of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have arrived in Damascus, where they will conduct a so-called ‘fact-finding mission’ into the chemical attack in Douma on April 7. The OPCW will try […]

TEL AVIV — An Israeli watchdog group has found a network of hundreds of social media accounts, many of them fake, used to smear opponents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in next week’s election and to amplify the messages of his Likud party, according to a report to be released Monday. The messages posted on […]

New UN peace envoy to Yemen says new framework will only deliver peace if fighting is brought to an end. The United Nations’ new envoy for Yemen has said he plans to unveil a new plan to end the conflict in the Arab world’s poorest country within two months. Martin Griffiths told the UN Security Council […]

Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says US leader is taking advantage of tensions in the Middle East. US President Donald Trump is “milking Gulf countries” and exploiting tensions in the Middle East to bolster its arms sales. That’s according to Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara, who was commenting shortly after the […]