Bahrain’s foreign minister paid tribute to ex-Israeli president Shimon Peres on Thursday, in a surprise statement that drew strong Arab criticism on social media. “Rest in Peace President Shimon Peres, a Man of War and a Man of the still elusive Peace in the Middle East,” Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed ...
US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he had yet to hear ideas for ending Syria’s war that would not involve huge numbers of US troops, after he has being under pressure following the collapse of a US- and Russian-brokered truce earlier this month. “The situation was heartbreaking,” Obama told ...