
FOREIGN POLICY
US: Saudi-Iran rift won’t affect Syria talks
The US says Syria talks planned for this month will go forward despite tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

The US says Syria talks planned for this month will go forward despite tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Saudi Arabia's growing international isolation and Iran's rising regional influence has led Riyadh to cut diplomatic ties with Tehran, Ian Bremmer says.

China voices concern over developments in the Middle East after Saudi Arabia cuts diplomatic ties with Iran.

Israeli forces wound a Palestinian whom they have accused of carrying out a stabbing attack in al-Quds (Jerusalem).

Pakistani forces detain over 40 militant suspects with alleged links to the Daesh terrorist group.

A co-mayor of the city of Van in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority region has been sentenced to 15 years.

The Iranian Majlis speaker says Saudi Arabia’s move to rupture ties with Iran was a wrong policy.

Turkmenistan says it seeks 'negotiations' with Gazprom after Russia's energy giant stopped buying natural gas from Ashgabat.

Saudi Arabia’s execution of Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr highlights its desperation to destabilize the Middle East, says an analyst and peace activist.

Denmark imposes controls at its border with Germany to limit the refugee inflow.

Germany says it may review arms contracts with Saudi Arabia following Friday's mass executions in the kingdom.

Speculations are rising that the British government is counting on its relations with Saudi Arabia to topple the Syrian President Bashar Assad.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon says Saudi Arabia’s move to cut off diplomatic ties with Iran is 'deeply worrying.'

A car bomb goes off near an international airport in the Afghan capital, Kabul, with no reports of casualties so far.

Global oil prices rise on Monday over escalation of tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

A top Iranian official says any bid to impose new bans and restrictions on Tehran’s defense capabilities will sabotage the JCPOA.

Rebels in Sudan attack an army garrison in a restive southern state, with conflicting reports on the number of fatalities.

Americans in 2015 named the US government as the most important problem facing the country, according to the latest Gallup poll.