16/09/2015

 Member nations of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) host more than 7 million Syrian asylum seekers who are officially registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Saudi Arabia, meanwhile,…

Washington has warned Russia on Tuesday that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has no role in coalition operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group and must step down to allow a political settlement. U.S. Secretary of…

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Monday chaired a cabinet session in which “false and misleading accusations” over the Kingdom’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis were addressed. Almost 2.5 million Syrians have been received by Saudi…

Australian fighter jets have carried out their first air strike against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group in Syria, destroying an armored personnel carrier, Defense Minister Kevin Andrews said on Wednesday. “This is part…

“Why don’t Saudi Arabia and Arab Gulf countries host Syrian refugees instead of letting them die in the sea?” some naively ask. Others maliciously pose this question for the purpose of shifting blame from the Syrian regime, the brutality…

Russia’s renewed deployment of both men and advanced hardware in Syria is, I believe, another indicator that the Assad regime is losing hope of forming an Alawite state, or what has been referred to as a “mini Syria”. The Russian…

The images of crazed migrant hordes bursting through the checkpoints of Fortress Europe make for great TV -- but leave the wrong impression. This is mainly a movement of ordinary people, forced by war and poverty into taking extraordinary…

They stand out, if one looks closely, amid the massive human wave washing its way from the shores of the Aegean to the foot of the Bavarian Alps. Here is a solemn-faced, solitary boy gazing about a jam-packed train station with…

Last week it was revealed that almost half the Syrian refugees who have resettled in the UK have been housed in one area of Bradford. Of the 216 refugees given sanctuary so far under the government's Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme…

For more than a year, President Obama has resisted meeting one on one with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and only reluctantly taken a phone call, freezing out the Kremlin leader over his intervention in Ukraine in their own personal…