Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister on July 27 denounced "aggressive statements" by Iran, intensifying the verbal sparring between the regional rivals following a global deal on Tehran's nuclear programme.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said July 27 that he had presented a report on this month's landmark deal on Iran's nuclear energy program to Iranian-born Shiite leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in southern Iraq.

The first cargo ships passed through Egypt's New Suez Canal on July 25 in a test-run before it opens next month, state media reported, 11 months after the army began constructing the $8 billion canal alongside the existing 145-year-old Suez Canal. 

Turkey is at war with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), but did you know that this has happened before? Twice, actually. ISIL might be a new organization, but what it represents has been around for a few centuries. Our Ottoman forefathers squashed the menace before.

The European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini will travel to Tehran on July 28 following the West's historic nuclear deal with Iran, also going to Saudi Arabia in her first official visit to the two regional powers.

The attack in Suruç is a dreadful wakeup call for Turkey.

Saudi Arabia's leaders sought assurances on July 22 that the United States stands firmly against Iranian "interference" in the Middle East, during a visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.

The Republican People?s Party (CHP) tabled a motion on July 22 for the declaration of a three-day long period of national mourning over the killings of dozens of people in a suicide bomb attack earlier this week in Turkey?s southeast.

The motion was presented to the parliament with the signatures of the CHP?s Sezgin Tanr?kulu, Veli A?baba and Özgür Özel.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will seek to reassure Gulf Arab officials at a meeting in Qatar soon that Washington will work with them to "push back" against Iranian influence in the region, he told the pan-Arab newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat.

The Republican People?s Party (CHP) has urged Turkey?s government to declare national mourning over the massacre of dozens of people in a devastating suicide bombing on the border with Syria, which it blamed on militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).