
FOREIGN POLICY
‘US thinks Assad will outlast Obama’
A US government timeline predicts that Barack Obama will be outlasted in office by Bashar al-Assad.

A US government timeline predicts that Barack Obama will be outlasted in office by Bashar al-Assad.

China lands two planes on a contested reef in the South China Sea amid controversy about its previous test flight there.

Iranian tennis umpires Seyyed Adel Borghei and Shervin Safavi will officiate at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open 2016 in Doha.

A report says the Manama regime has increased arbitrary arrests in Bahrain.

Ivory Coast government resigns ahead of an expected cabinet reshuffle.

Iran's president calls for an urgent probe into the recent assaults against the Saudi diplomatic missions.

Hillary Clinton urges Americans to roundly reject the candidacy of Donald Trump because of his “dangerous” rhetoric about Muslims.

Northrop Grumman is hired by the Pentagon to enable drones to operate from smaller warships.

North Korea’s self-declared hydrogen bomb test draws serious reaction from Russia.

The price of Europe’s benchmark North Sea Brent crude has fallen below USD 35 a barrel for first time since 2004 as markets suffer from supply glut.

At least eight civilians are killed in mortar attacks by terrorists on the Syrian capital city of Damascus.

President of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) is to pay a five-day visit to Iran later this month.

UN probes fresh sex abuse cases by its peacekeepers in the CAR.

The British opposition leader has reshuffled his shadow cabinet.

Pierre Boulez, the well-known French conductor, composer and music teacher, dies at the age of 90.

A new study says over half of the UK food and feed comes from abroad.

A member of the UK government has defended the human rights record of Saudi Arabia.

A senior Iranian official says the fallout from a recent diplomatic row between Iran and Saudi Arabia will affect the oil market in the short term.