Rasa - Nobel Laureates Mairead Maguire, Shirin Ebadi, and Tawakkol Karman met with more than 100 women refugees in camps in the coastal Cox’s Bazar region of Bangladesh this week, as well as travelling to the “no man’s land” where thousands of Rohingya have been stranded between Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Rasa - There is no end to Mohammed Bin Salman's regional failures and fiascos. First it was the regime-change campaigns in Iraq, Syria and Yemen that failed. Now it’s his move with help from the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt to try to isolate Qatar that has likewise failed.

Rasa - A number of officials in Washington have woken up to the horrors of the US-backed, Saudi-led war on Yemen.

Rasa - The end of the fight against ISIL by allied forces of Iran, Syria, Russia and Hezbollah has taken away any legal justification for the presence of US troops, but Washington has suggested they plan to maintain a presence in the north forever.

Rasa - Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is set to make a short visit to Egypt on Sunday. The trip is coming while the two nations’ relations are not as warm as before.

Rasa - Peace with Taliban has been a perused policy of Afghan government in the past few years. The government of President Ashraf Ghani looks poised to incorporate Taliban in the nation’s power structure as he had made it clear in various summits. Tripartite meetings first held in Kabul and then in Islamabad all debated this idea, though they were left unconcluded after the death of the insurgent group’s leader Mullah Omar.

Rasa – Hujjat al-Islam Sayyed-Baqeri explained the jurisprudential principles of the issue of the oversight of political power.

Rasa - For some good reasons, the Iraqi Parliament has passed a resolution this week demanding that the Abadi government set a strict timeline for the withdrawal of all US and other foreign occupying troops from the country.

Rasa - Saudi Arabia’s rulers have asked the US to help them expand the oil-rich kingdom’s nuclear program to include uranium enrichment, a move that experts warn is not to be taken lightly considering the Riyadh regime’s never-ending thirst for political and military dominance in the Middle East region.

Rasa - What usurper regime gets the most money from the US government? The answer: Israel.