Middle East
Iran, Arab-UN Envoy in Joint Call on Syria
TEHRAN, Oct 27 — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and UN-Arab League joint special representative to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi Saturday called for finding...
Iran hangs rebels in border attack reprisal
TEHRAN, Oct 26 — Iran has executed 16 rebels following overnight clashes in which 14 border guards were killed close to the border with...
Saudi Arabia warns women against driving
RIYADH, Oct 24, The Saudi interior ministry Wednesday warned women against driving in response to a campaign against the driving ban on females, Saudi...
End of the Promised Land?
A small country with limited resources cannot sustain a huge army, as well as an occupation regime and hundreds of settlements, without depriving everything else
By Uri Avnery
THOSE...
Middle East Wars Drive Refugee Flows, Mediterranean Migrant Deaths


15 October  2013
By Robert Stevens
Rescuers have ended their search for the bodies of the migrants who died in the October 3 Lampedusa boat sinking....