Can Russia help ease tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan?

Russia has close ties with the Taliban and is courting Islamabad, but analysts say its leverage remains uncertain.

Yemen says 2 missiles hit Aden airport; no casualties reported

LONDON: Two missiles fired by the Iran-backed Houthi militia struck the airport in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden on Friday night, as a passenger plane prepared to take off, the country’s information minister said. No casualt…

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How Red Sea Global plans to prove a 30% net conservation gain by 2040

RIYADH: Sustainability commitments are easy to announce. The harder test for tourism developers might be proving that nature is measurably better off once a development’s own impacts have been counted. Saleh Maghrabi, a marine en…

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Yemen’s Houthi war threatens ancient heritage and fuels fears of antiquities trafficking

LONDON: The renewed offensive by the Houthi militia in Yemen has raised fresh concerns about the fate of a cultural heritage already battered by more than a decade of war, destruction and looting. The impact of the latest fightin…

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Lebanon opens investigation into Syrian militia leader’s abduction and transfer to Syria

BEIRUT: Lebanese authorities were investigating how a former Syrian militia commander suspected of committing crimes during the government of ousted President Bashar Assad was abducted in Lebanon and taken to Syria, judicial and …