(Al Arabiya)- Iraqi special forces cleared buildings on Saturday in neighborhoods they entered in eastern Mosul a day earlier, after pushing out ISIS militants in their drive to take back the city. Fighting continued in the morning, with both sides firing mortars and automatic weapons on...

(Daily Sabah)- A group of suspected pro-PKK assailants attacked a building belonging to a Turkish man in Essen city located in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia by Molotov cocktails late Friday, reports said on Saturday. The attack follows a number of developments which took place on Friday,...

(The Guardian)- A Russian frigate armed with cruise missiles has passed through the Bosphorus on its way to the eastern Mediterranean in a potentially ominous development for the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo. The Admiral Grigorovich, part of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, arrived off the...

(Carnegie Endowment)- Relations between Saudi Arabia and Egypt, two previously staunch allies, have recently soured. This can be attributed to Egypt’s inability to perform its role as a guarantor of regional Gulf security against growing Iranian hegemony and its desire to cultivate other, less...