The CJP emerged after remarks by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant appeared to compare unemployed young people with cockroaches. Kant later said his words had been misconstrued and were directed at ...

[Arab Digest thanks Christopher Davidson, a noted author and scholar for this piece. His latest book is From Sheikhs to Sultanism: Statecraft and Authority in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.] Unveiled ...

The greatest challenge facing Saudi Arabia in Yemen has never been purely military. It has always been political. Since Riyadh launched its intervention against the Houthi movement in 2015, the ...

The state funeral for Ali Khamenei was never just a funeral. It was a choreographed act of political messaging designed to show that the Islamic Republic could absorb the death of its supreme leader ...

Saudi Arabia’s role in Sudan’s war reveals a stark contradiction: It positions itself as a neutral mediator, while also allegedly facilitating arms transfers to the Sudanese Armed Forces. Reports also ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to a Kolkata Catholic charity reignited debate over India’s Foreign Contribution Regulation Act. While the US enforces strict religion-state separation at ...

Republican candidate Nixon was elected president in 1968 and much of his first term was overshadowed by the Vietnam War. Reelected in 1972 in a landslide, Nixon initially faced compromise after his ...

An eight-year-old girl injured in a wild elephant attack in West Rumbai subdistrict, Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia, a few months ago has died after three days of treatment at a local hospital. The ...

One could be forgiven for assuming FIFA president Giann i Infantino had committed some diabolical atrocity, like abolishing women’s football. The ferocity of the condemnation directed at him suggests ...

For decades, Lebanon has stood at the crossroads of regional politics. Once celebrated as the “Switzerland of the Middle East” for its banking sector and cosmopolitan capital, the country has — since ...

“We can put a shelter anywhere within two days, even at the path to the military unit, not at the [exact] place … and a separate door with ‘Ministry of Interior’ written on it or something like that.” ...

Greetings again from North America. Today, we once again turn our eyes towards Africa, specifically Ethiopia. The last time we wrote about the country, it was to discuss the successful completion of ...