Get exclusive content with Gulf News WhatsApp channel Workers will also get a one-day holiday on the ninth of Dhu Al Hijjah for Arafat Day. The exact date for the holiday will be announced after ...

Mcebisi Jonas can respectfully differ with Americans without disrespecting their president, says former ambassador.

An elite squad of all-female guards known as the “Revolutionary Nuns” protected Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Trained in combat and bound by loyalty, their glamorous image masked harrowing abuse, ...

Yasser Arafat and Muammar Gaddafi amongst her subjects). She was raised by an activist, anti-Fascist father who instilled a fierce political will in his daughter, an asset to her as one of the few ...

all related to the alleged funding of his 2007 presidential election campaign by the regime of Libyan dictator Mummar Gaddafi, it took four of his defence lawyers five hours to offer an opposing ...

During the Camp David summit in 2000—an attempt by President Bill Clinton to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with a two-state solution—former PLO chief Yasser Arafat asserted that ...

The 89-year-old veteran of the Palestinian struggle was once seen as a more moderate successor to the longtime national figurehead Yasser Arafat. But he’s now widely seen as merely clinging to ...

Many Palestinians and many in the Arab world were not only disillusioned by legendary Fatah leader Yasser Arafat, but they were even disgusted with his weak-kneed approach to Israel, and also in ...

The reason is rooted in history, not just politics. In 2003, Iraq's fall led Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to give up his weapons for Western approval. However, less than ten years later ...

Why?The story goes beyond politics—into history. After Iraq fell in 2003, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi surrendered his weapons of mass destruction in exchange for Western acceptance.

Retour sur l’hostilité traditionaliste qui s’est manifestée en Normandie, à l’égard du « Stabat Mater » de Domenico Scarlatti. Se saisissant d’une telle œuvre, les compagnies La ...