Significantly, the country followed strictly orthodox Wahhabi Sunni Islam. Now, Saudi Arabia has mandated a much more modern style of Islam. It no longer has school textbooks full of blood-curdling ...

Baghdad has the unusual ability to force its visitor to open up about the past and its pains. The ability becomes more pronounced when the friends choose to have dinner on the banks of the Tigris only ...

On a windswept plateau high above the Arabian Sea, Sena Keybani cradles a sapling that barely reaches her ankle. The young ...

But the tree is more than a botanical curiosity: It’s a pillar of Socotra’s ecosystem. The umbrella-like canopies capture fog ...

“The majority of forests that have been surveyed are what we call over-mature — there are no young trees, there are no ...

When President Donald Trump announced the lifting of US sanctions on Syria during his trip to the Middle East this week, it ...

Riyadh: Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah held talks in Riyadh on Sunday with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan. They tackled means to bolster cooperation between their ...

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