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Category: West Asia

After Two Years…

Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian Major General, was killed by a US drone strike at Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020. The drone had targeted Soleimani while he was on […]

The Host & ‘Unwanted’ Guests

Qatar, which is all set to host the FIFA World Cup in November-December 2022, has once again stood by Palestine, as the peninsular Arab nation has removed Israel from the […]

Satanic

The author and one of the Midnight’s Children was attacked while he was delivering speech at a literary event in New York on August 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the 75-year-old […]

The ‘Deal’ Gone Bad

US President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was all set to revive the Iran nuclear deal. However, an Iranian effort to kidnap Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American critic of the Tehran regime, […]

Tackling The ‘Barbarians’

It is known that the British had suffered a bloody and miserable defeat in the First Anglo-Afghan War, in 1838-42. Although some battles took place after that war, the Britons […]

On A Suicidal Mistake

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that the world is just one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation. Speaking at the UN Conference on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in New […]

A Supervised ‘Sex-Slavery’

Jail authorities have repeatedly used her as a sex-slave, allowing the prisoners to rape her many a time. There is an uproar in Israel over such a revelation by a […]

An Age-Old Mis-Conception

Archaeologists are of the opinion that cultural ties between India and Saudi Arabia are at least 8,000 years old, as they have discovered a temple at an 8,000-year-old archaeological site […]

Not Just Films

Noted Iranian film director, screenwriter and film editor Jafar Panâhi (b. July 11, 1960), commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave Film Movement, once reportedly said that he “can’t do […]