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There are countries in the world where local people and even more so tourists feel uncomfortable. These are mostly countries with high level of crime such as murder, robbery in ...

Over nearly three decades since the Revolution, Iranian businesses and businessmen through a number of personal and professional lapses have built up a shoddy and devious reputation abroad that has ...

The refugee burden that Syria’s neighbors are shouldering is heavy and should not be borne alone. But keeping people fleeing for their lives in buffer zones inside Syrian borders risks ...

The Arab Spring gave the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates the chance to play vital roles in the Egyptian, Tunisian and Libyan revolutions. But now the organisation has itself become the target of violent ...

THE blue-glass skyscrapers of Moscow City — fragments of Russia’s boom-time dream — are visible from the Kremlin walls, within which there was once hope that those towers could supplant ...

The Coming Cooperation on Syria and Energy. After nearly three years of intense political feuding following the Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara -- a ship carrying international activists who ...

The Americans won the war, the Iranians won the peace and the Turks won the contracts. Turkey, which blocked the deployment of U.S. troops through its territory during the 2003 ...

It's the 18th day of Siege in Kashmir after the secret execution of Mohammad Afzal Guru, who was hanged inside Indian Prison on February 9. His alleged crime was that ...

The West Bank's first Palestinian-designed planned city offers a window into the promises and perils of the current situation in the Middle East. But will it be a novelty, or ...

Despite no one wanting to see conflict in Asia, the ranks of doomsayers and worrywarts seem to grow by the day. The specter haunting the continent is that of China’s ...