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Last August an extremist Shiite group stormed the embassy of Azerbaijan in London and briefly took it over. Last week, another radical attacked an Azerbaijani embassy, but this time in Tehran. A gunman walked unchallenged past an Iranian security guard and strolled into the embassy, where he killed one Azerbaijani official and wounded two others. A few hours after the attack,

RIYADH: The rogue Assad regime in Syria and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon are the primary source of a potent and toxic drug that is destroying lives across the region, an Arab News investigation has revealed. The 14-month investigation — “The Kingdom vs Captagon — was carried out by the Arab News Research and Studies Unit, whose team conducted exhaustive

As millions around the world celebrate the birth of Christ, we — at Arab News — take this opportunity to wish all our Christian readers, both in Saudi Arabia and abroad, a Merry Christmas. We also take this opportunity to start a new tradition. Indeed, subscribers to our print edition inside the Kingdom will enjoy the first-ever Arab News Christmas Edition in print. At the

SAO PAULO: On Oct. 30, Brazilians elected former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after a highly polarized campaign against incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. The divide in the South American country was reflected in the outcome: Lula received 50.9 percent of votes while Bolsonaro got 49.1 percent. The large Brazilian-Arab community, estimated at more than 10 million people, was

A teacher who submitted false coursework marks for some of his students was under immense stress due to becoming homeless following a divorce

On 10 October 2022, the ACRPS Iranian Studies Unit (ISU) hosted Shirin Saeidi, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Arkansas, for a lecture titled "Historicizing Iranian Women’s Activism in Post-1979 Iran

On 13 June 2022, the ACRPS Iranian Studies Unit (ISU) hosted a group of experts for a panel titled "Representation of Iranians in the Western Media

On 28 April 2022, the ACRPS Iranian Studies Unit (ISU) hosted a group of experts for a panel entitled "Sectarianism and Iranian Foreign Policy

LONDON: At a star-studded event marking the 100-year anniversary of Umm Al-Qura — Saudi Arabia’s official newspaper of record — the Kingdom’s acting minister of media, Dr. Majid Al-Qassabi, announced the launch of five new ministerial initiatives to the audience, which included high-level officials, academics and, of course, a large number of journalists.

Iranian Studies Unit Panel – Iran’s Relations with the States of the GCC