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The backlash after the heady Arab revolutions of 2011. The rumblings of war with nuclear-aspiring Iran. The bloody persistence of Bashar al-Assad in civil war-torn Syria. Not to mention...

Turkey’s military says a delegation of Turkish and NATO officials will start surveying sites for the possible deployment of Patriot missiles on Turkey’s border with Syria. Syria is believed...

The Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, has announced he will quit politics after the general election next January. Mr Barak, who was Israel's prime minister between 1999 and 2001,...

Originally from Pakistan, Sumeyye Kerim has made it in history by being the first girl with headscarf ever to talk in the British Parliament. Kerim told AA correspondent, "It was an...

Smoking "rots" the brain by damaging memory, learning and reasoning, according to researchers at King's College London. A study of 8,800 people over 50 showed high blood pressure and...

Gangnam Style, the dance track by South Korean pop phenomenon Psy, has become YouTube's most-watched video of all time. It has notched up more than 808m views since it was...

Twitter works as an outlet of rage against Fazıl Say. Say’s attack was on the listeners of arabesque music, going so far as to call them ‘traitors’. Fazıl Say...

The two brief biographies included in this volume are the result of some heroic digging around little-known archives by the author. Rıfat Bali has done this for a number...

Senator John McCain, a vocal opponent of Susan Rice's possible nomination as Secretary of State, said on Sunday that the U.N. ambassador could change his mind after she explained...

Afghanistan has closed down three major public universities in the capital, Kabul, for more than a week after sectarian clashes left one student dead and nearly 30 others wounded....