The Hindu on Friday conveyed recent remarks from Hassan Nourian – Iran’s Consul General in Hyderabad – urging Indians to shrug off American pressure aimed at limiting trade with the Islamic republic: Pointing out that India was a big economy which has twice the landmass of Iran and 15 times...

Zaman on Friday rounded up a series of recent exposés and incidents, published by Turkish media organs, describing moves made by Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) to establish what the outlet bluntly assessed as “full control” over Turkey’s judiciary. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has for months been...

Last week’s round of balloting in Syria – in which Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad reportedly won 88.7% of the vote in the war-torn country – marked a defeat for the West and for Western conspiracies, per Friday remarks issued by Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah: Assad won a new seven-year term in...

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Thursday told a group of foreign military attaches that the Palestinian Authority (PA) would have to disarm Hamas to signal that it is genuinely pursuing a viable and united Palestinian state, the latest in what has become daily criticism from diplomats, analysts, and journalists blasting...

In his maiden speech as Egypt’s president, Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi vowed to stop terror attacks in his country, as part of his bid to make the country safer for its citizens and more attractive for potential investors. The former military chief, addressing the nation late yesterday, hours after taking the oath...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set up a ministerial committee to decide  how Jerusalem should deal with the new Palestinian government that was jointly appointed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the terrorist organization Hamas. The first meeting on preparing plans on how to deal with the diplomatic and...

A former Hamas official wrote on his Facebook page Sunday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was “lying” to the Americans. Palestinian Media Watch translated Ihab al-Ghussein’s comments: “You know what Mahmoud Abbas says behind closed doors?? He says: ‘Guys, let me [continue] saying what I say to the media. Those...

The Times of Israel reported Tuesday that the mother-in-law of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was admitted for treatment in an Israeli hospital. Maj. Guy Inbar, an Israeli spokesman, said the 68-year-old woman was allowed to enter from the Gaza Strip on Monday to receive cancer treatment at a Jerusalem hospital....

As Iran shows no concrete sign of ending its nuclear program and continues its threats towards the West and interests in the region, its Arab neighbors have begun introducing the compulsory military draft for their young men. The president of the United Arab Emirates on Saturday issued a law implementing...

Former Lebanese Prime Minister Sa’ad Hariri declared yesterday that Tuesday’s re-election of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad was a “farce.” The Daily Star reported on the politician’s remarks: “This election was a farce. It was dark, fabricated, bloody, abhorrent and all of the things that senior officials have described it as,”...