- 19 April, 2024
Geopolitics & National SecuritySunni
Blasts on vans carrying Shi’ite Muslims in northern Afghanistan kill nine
KABUL (Reuters) -Bombs exploded aboard two passenger vans carrying Shi'ite Muslims in the northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday, killing at least nine people, an official said. The blasts…
Blast tears through Sunni mosque in northern Afghan city Kunduz
KABUL (Reuters) -A blast tore through a Sunni mosque during Friday prayers in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, causing at least 20 casualties, the commander of Kunduz province said.…
Saudi Arabia plans for fresh round of talks with Iran, says foreign minister
DUBAI (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Saturday the kingdom was looking to schedule a fifth round of direct talks with rival Iran despite a "lack of substantive progress"…
Explainer-Why Yemen is at war
DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have launched two missile attacks at the United Arab Emirates in the last week, raising the stakes in a ruinous and complex conflict. Monday's…
Iran Seeks to Cool Tensions in Iraq
Iran is intervening in Iraq to quell destabilising internal unrest stirred up by Iranian-backed militias. The actions come as Tehran seeks to preserve its deep influence in the country while…
By PTI and Chanakya Forum
Saudi UN envoy: Iran playing “games” in talks with kingdom
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's envoy to the United Nations said the kingdom wanted more substantive talks with Iran but that Tehran was so far biding its time and playing…
Kuwait detains 18 suspected of financing Lebanon’s Hezbollah – media
Cairo (Reuters) -Prosecutors in Kuwait have detained 18 people suspected of financing Lebanon's powerful Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah, the newspapers Al-Qabas and Al-Rai reported on Thursday. Al Qabas said the…
Explainer-Why is Lebanon such a mess?
By Maha El Dahan and Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least six people were shot dead in Beirut on Thursday as demonstrations related to a probe into last year's…
Saudi confirms first round of talks with new Iranian government
RIYHADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia confirmed on Sunday it had held its first round of direct talks with Iran's new government last month, part of a process begun earlier this…
Iraqis to vote in ballot marked by growing social and political fractures
By John Davison and Ahmed Rasheed NASSIRIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Elections in Iraq next month are being held early in response to mass protests against the government in 2019, but…
Sunni scholars who left Afghanistan hope Islam’s tolerant message survives Taliban
By Mahmoud Mourad CAIRO (Reuters) - Clerics from Egypt's ancient seat of Sunni study Al-Azhar, who spent years teaching in Afghanistan and were planning to open an education centre for…
Lebanon Facing Total Collapse
Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, who was tasked with forming a government in the country last October, after presenting his proposed cabinet to President Michel Aoun ; which Aoun rejected…
