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Gulf markets index declines, Kuwait City, April 7, 2025 AFP
Business & Economy

Gulf states won't pull US sovereign wealth funds amid market volatility

Gulf states are not looking to pull their sovereign wealth funds and other investments in the United States amid the fallout from US President Donald…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 18 April , 2025
US President Donald Trump meets with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, April 17, 2025. REUTERS / Evelyn Hockstein
Politics

Can "Trump whisperer" Meloni help repair US-EU relations?

At a moment when the transatlantic partnership between the US and Europe has been severely disrupted by US President Donald Trump’s tariff policy,…

Con Coughlin 17 April , 2025
The Saudi Film Festival saudi film festival
Culture & Social Affairs

Saudi Film Festival 2025 focuses on the cinema of identity

Since its launch in 2008, the Saudi Film Festival has helped shape an Arab cinematic landscape driven by aspiration. What began as a modest yet far…

Noor Hisham Alsaif 17 April , 2025
The Tompkins Square Park riot in New York City on January 13, 1874, was a clash between the city's police department and thousands of unemployed workers during the economic depression following the Panic of 1873.  Alamy
Documents & Memoirs

The awful history of tariffs and depressions

It is rare that we can watch the unfolding of a global economic downturn with such precision as we can today. With a 145% US tariff on China and a…

 Scott Reynolds Nelson 17 April , 2025
Members of Syria's security forces stand guard during the funeral of three people killed in Israeli strikes a day earlier, in the southern town of Daraa on March 18, 2025. Bakr ALKASEM / AFP
Politics

The 8th Brigade agrees to dissolve in boost for Damascus

A key week in Syria’s south, which began with protests, clashes, and an assassination, ended with the Daraa-based 8th Brigade finally agreeing to…

Abbas Sharifa 17 April , 2025
Chinese economy better positioned to handle trade war
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Chinese economy better positioned to handle trade war

Fares Garabet 17 April , 2025
Opinion

After two years of war in Sudan, the world can no longer plead ignorance

Two years ago this week (15 April), war broke out in Sudan that few anticipated would escalate so rapidly or persist for so long. What began as a…

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus 16 April , 2025
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meeting with Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (L) during the 4th edition of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF2025) in Antalya on April 11, 2025. AFP
Politics

Syria’s neighbours want it to have security, but on their terms

Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, drew a crowd in much the same way as a celebrity during his recent visit to Türkiye, his second in an…

Omer Onhon 16 April , 2025
A Palestinian child looks on as bodies of victims of Israeli overnight airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip lie on the ground in front of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia on March 20, 2025. BASHAR TALEB / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

In Gaza, a child's silent farewell to dead friend pierces the silence of the world

The book of genocide remains open; its story is still being told in the Gaza Strip, each chapter more terrifying and devastating than the last. Just…

Samer Abou Hawwach 16 April , 2025
A worker assembles vehicle parts on a production line inside the Renault factory on the outskirts of Tangier, Morocco, which has grown to become a giant in automobile manufacturing over the past 15 years, on April 29, 2024. AFP
Business & Economy

Wheels come off: Morocco gets caught in the global trade storm

The trade war that US President Donald Trump has launched between the United States, the European Union, and China is starting to encompass other…

Mohamed Sharki 16 April , 2025
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US-Iran war: aviation industry hits turbulence

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Gulf states' central global location has made it the perfect transit hub for global travel, but with flights cancelled due to war, the industry is scrambling to fill the void

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An Iranian military truck carries surface-to-air missiles past a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a parade on the occasion of the country's annual army day on 18 April 2018, in Tehran. ATTA KENARE / AFP
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In US-Iran war, willpower could trump firepower

06 March 2026

Washington and Tel Aviv may think the key to ending Iran's regime is to kill its missile bank and capabilities, but sometimes strategy matters more than hardware

Bilal Saab
Iranian nationals arrive in Turkey after passing through the Razi-Kapiköy border crossing in Van, north-eastern Türkiye, on 3 March 2026. ALI IHSAN OZTURK / AFP
Politics

Türkiye fears spillover effects of US-Iran war

05 March 2026

Ankara fears a refugee influx, economic disruption, and a Kurdish dimension as the US and Israel escalate their attacks

Omer Onhon
The displaced Palestinian Abu Mustafa family sits together as they break the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast during Iftar in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 26 February 2026. Photo by EYAD BABA / AFP
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Ramadan in Gaza: food scarcity compounds suffering

03 March 2026

The iftar table, if it still exists, no longer represents joy, but anxiety and scarcity

Hala Al-Naji

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