The Ministry of Labor has ruled out an extension of the amnesty period and warned illegal workers and Saudi employers that countrywide raids would start on Nov. 4. Hattab Al-Enezi, the ministry’s spokesman, rejected on Thursday reports carried by some...

  Iraq is going to break up.  It is already happening, but no one wants to acknowledge it because no one wants to be perceived as being responsible for the disintegration of a major Middle Eastern country .   There is not much about the...

U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Damascus on Monday, as part of the next leg of his regional tour to garner support for a peace conference on Syria. Brahimi flew in to Beirut from Tehran and was to travel overland to Damascus the same day, making his first visit to...

Kurdish militants sought to consolidate their control of an oil-producing region in northeastern Syria  on Sunday after seizing a border crossing with Iraq  from Islamist rebels, activists said. Fighters linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought in...