When Saudi Arabia's veteran foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, made no annual address to the United Nations General Assembly last week for the first time ever, his unspoken message could hardly have been louder. For most countries, refusing to give a scheduled speech would count...

The head of the Syrian opposition coalition’s interim government, Ahmad Tohmeh, has aired his thoughts on the U.S.-Russian deal to destroy the Syrian regime’s chemical stockpile within a year. In an interview with Al Arabiya, Tohmeh said the deal was reached between the two parties in a...

  Emir of The Islamic State of Iraq an al-Sham, al-Qaeda affiliate group, declared  opening  a new Shariah court and Police station on Thursday in 'the new Islamic Emirate', Azaz, according to his twitter account .   The Sate new ...

Islanders on Europe's southern edge have become used to tragedy and trauma, they see it every day in the thousands of asylum seekers who land on their shores -- and they say they have had enough. The locals of the remote fishing community on Lampedusa island rush to help every time but their...