• Suicide bomber rocks Yemen market

• Jolie calls for more aid to Syrian refugees

• Silent protests continue in Istanbul’s Taksim Square

• South Sudan President suspends two ministers in graft probe

• Russia to West: Ease Iran sanctions to keep hopes of breakthrough alive

• Russia refuses to rule out new arms supplies to Assad

• Erdogan demonizes opposition like all dictators do

• Qatar and US team up to pull Taliban out of Qaeda embrace

• G8 leaders agree to eradicate terror ransom payments

• Assad: leaving power would be 'national betrayal'

• Six jailed to 10 years in Bahrain over attack

• US arms to Syria rebels raise fear in Israel

• One man killed in Lebanon town shooting spree

• UN: Gathafis move to Oman in breach of sanctions

• Syria-related clashes hit Lebanon’s Sidon

• Tunisia court slaps Salafists with jail sentences for torching Sufi shrine

• Twin suicide bombings: More blood drenches streets of Iraq

• Taliban office boosts Qatar game plan with fundamentalists

• Jewish extremists vandalise tolerant Arab Israeli town

• Dozens detained in police swoop on Turkey protesters

Public knowledge and legal opinion has yet to catch up to the massive state spying enabled by new technologies, says David K. Shipler.

Dubai is a popular holiday destination for Saudis, and people from all over the world, and it will remain so (...) because Muslims know how to differentiate between a fatwa and a bad joke, writes Iman Zayat.

The American people “get” that the Syrian conflict is complicated, and that any US involvement there had the potential to make untenable demands on this country’s future, says John Nichols.

Backing extremists in Syria and other parts of the Arab World and inciting sectarianism are unfortunate developments. The region has not only seen a return to the barbaric era before Islam but also fostered and deepened atrocities, notes Abbas Syed Jasim.

Here is what I learned on my journey up and down Edgware Road in London Monday night: It is so easy to stereotype people when you lack knowledge about them, and equally easy to appreciate the nuances and diversity of the same people, if you have access to such knowledge, stresses Rami G. Khouri.

Author of the recent bestseller Kill Anything That Moves and TomDispatch’s managing editor, Nick Turse,lays out just how U.S. Africa Command has moved American military power ever deeper into Africa -- in the process unsettling that continent, sparking the spread of terrorist outfits, and creating what increasingly looks like a blowback machine.

Foreign direct investment into Arab states, excluding Syria,rose by 9.8 percent in 2012 despite unrest in some of them.

Mazrouei says 2013 Festival will be consolidating its status as landmark heritage, tourism venue in Abu Dhabi.