Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd, may he rest in peace, could have tried to do like Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa, Qatar’s crown prince back then and its real ruler. Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait back then, during the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) meeting in Doha, Sheikh Hamad tried to blackmail
Sao Paulo- Venezuela’s new legislative pro-government assembly removed the country’s chief prosecutor and ordered her to stand trial in its first session on Saturday. South American trade bloc Mercosur indefinitely suspended Venezuela, adding to international pressure on President Nicola
The US State Department has officially informed the United Nations it will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement in a document issued on Friday, but left the door open to re-engaging if the terms improved for the United States. The State Department said in a press release the United States would
Washington- US federal investigators are examining whether former national security adviser Michael Flynn was secretly paid by the Turkish government to lobby, according to a report from The New York Times published on Friday. Investigators working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, rec
London – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced his country’s readiness for further enhancing cooperation with other states and the launch of “mother of all negotiations”, hinting to Tehran’s anticipation for communicating with the new US administration. Rouhani believes that the success of the
Jeddah- Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, receives pilgrims who come to perform Hajj rites each year with welcoming programs that start at the point of arrival until departure. After reaching Makkah, Hajj pilgrims are received with chants, Zamzam water dates and a smile. Upon leaving, they leav
Damascus- Six years into a devastating war, Damascus plunged into the darkness of neglect and waste accumulating in its slums and upper-class neighborhoods. The city which once the sweet scent of jasmine was bursting all across its streets, now has a sickening reek of sewage poisoning its fresh air.
London- UN special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed described the new UN roadmap in Hodeidah as the “prelude and not the target,” and said that it was the start of a comprehensive solution to the Yemeni crisis. In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, Ould Cheikh asserted that “at pres
Cairo – Special Representative of UN Secretary-General (SRSG) and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya Ghassan Salame began his official visit to Libya by meeting with President Fayez al-Sarraj and his political ally the Head of the High Council of State, Abdulrahman al-Sweihli. Durin
London- Extensive contacts kicked off lately in support of the High Negotiations Committee (HNC) efforts to hold a broad opposition meeting next October that could reach a political vision and a unified delegation ahead of engaging in serious talks with Damascus for implementing UNSC Resolution 2254
French interior minister Gerard Collomb revealed, in a newspaper interview, that 271 jihadi militants have returned to the country from war zones in Iraq and Syria and all of them are subject to investigation by public prosecutors. With around 700 French nationals estimated to have fought in ISIS ra
Beirut- The final preparations for the upcoming Lebanese Army battle against ISIS at the eastern borders with Syria have already been triggered after the completion of a swap deal between Nusra Front and “Hezbollah” and the deportation of Nusra militants from Jurud Arsal to Idlib. On Saturday, the L
As President Trump nears the threshold of a military crisis with North Korea, he needs to sustain this early intuition — and not be driven into actions that may look tough but would leave every player worse off. The template hasn’t really changed from the Korean War in 1950: North Korea’s aggressive
Brazilian troops and police launched on Saturday an operation against gangs in the slums in Rio de Janeiro in an attempt to crackdown on mounting crime. Their main goal was to stop gangs behind a surge in brazen robberies of commercial trucks. Five favelas were targeted by the heavily-armed combined
Traumatized by war, their extremist parents either killed or missing, 28 children have found solace in each other at a Red Crescent center in Libya’s third city Misrata, said an Agence France Presse report on Friday. Whether they’re jumping up and down on mattresses or playing in the yar
Ten years, four countries, four medical schools and 21 houses later Tirej Brimo, a refugee who fled the Syrian war, is finally a doctor, said a Reuters report on Friday. Having been just 10 months away from graduating with a medical degree at a university in Aleppo, Brimo was forced to flee his home
London- At the end of Barcelona’s comeback against Paris Saint-Germain in March, their hero leapt on to the advertising boards at the north end of the Camp Nou, fans surging forward at his feet, still barely able to believe what they had just seen. At first he swayed a little but they held him stead
Agatha Christie lived here once, but only memories remain of the time the best-selling crime writer spent among the ruins of the ancient Iraqi city of Nimrud. The mud-brick house where the British author of “Murder on the Orient Express” once stayed is long gone. If she were alive today,
People’s memory may be short-lived, but the invasion of Kuwait too big of an event that touched on everyone’s lives, not just Kuwaitis. Despite 27 years passing since, the fallout endures till this very day. Kuwait today hosts an open platform for political and intellectual differences and debate, w
Paul Kagame was elected for a third term as president of Rwanda, scoring 98 percent of the vote amid what critics and rights groups say are widespread human rights abuses, a muzzling of independent media and suppression of political opposition. With 80 percent of votes counted from Friday’s el
