Guantanamo (Cuba) – Office of Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Brig. Gen. Mark Martins said that the trial for Qaeda members suspected of involvement in the September 11 terror attacks alongside other top Guantanamo Bay prisoners could start in 2018. Martins said that laws and regulations
Riyadh- Saudi judiciary sentenced on Wednesday a Saudi citizen to imprisonment and banned him from traveling for pledging allegiance to ISIS and seeking to join it in Syria, taking his wife and children with him. The convict admitted that he supported ISIS and traveled to Turkey to go to Syria and j
Ramallah– Hamas announced Wednesday that the head of its politburo, Khaled Meshaal, would call for a meeting on Monday in the Qatari capital to officially announce the movement’s new political charter. The announcement confirms earlier reports published by Asharq Al-Awsat on Meshaal’s intention to p
Several Israeli missiles hit a position for Syrian forces southwest of Damascus airport at dawn on Thursday, Syrian regime media said, as the force of the blasts shook the capital. “A military position southwest of Damascus International Airport was targeted at dawn today by an Israeli aggress
Geneva –UN Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed expressed his hope for a new round of peace talks between Yemen’s warring parties before Ramadan month. The Envoy told AFP that currently, things are at the preliminary stage, but time is also a real constraint and he aims to finish al
Ankara, Beirut- Ankara announced that it had informed Washington and Moscow before launching strikes against Kurdistan Workers’ Party and People’s Protection Units in northern Iraq’s Mount Sinjar and areas in northeastern Syria. Ankara criticized the visit of US officers to the sites of
London- Realizing February statements made by US-based Yemeni diplomat, Washington strategy in Yemen shifted towards increased military cooperation with the Saudi-led Arab coalition backing the internationally recognized government headed by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. Earlier in February, Yeme
Moscow – Saudi Foreign Affairs Minister Adel al-Jubeir discussed the future of Syria with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Wednesday. During a joint news conference following the meeting, the Saudi foreign minister said Riyadh is against involvement of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a
Doha – Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani announced that the deal to secure the release of Qatari hunters kidnapped in southern Iraq went ahead with the “full knowledge” of Baghdad. The Qatari FM was responding to Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi’s compl
Riyadh- Djibouti’s Defense Minister Ali Hasan Bahdon stressed that a military and defense agreement signed between Saudi Arabia and Djibouti in Riyadh on Wednesday lies in the interest of the two nations and the region’s security. Bahdon told Asharq Al-Awsat that “Saudi Arabia is the backbone of sta
London-A shift can be easily detected in the United States President Donald Trump’s campaign speech and post-inauguration stances. The 70-year old’s take on Chinese President Xi Jinping and NATO has changed, but the same cannot be said for Trump’s view on curbing Iran’s expansionist ambitions in the
London- US scientists have discovered a miracle “exercise pill” that mimics the effects of going to the gym. Lead researcher Dr. Joshua Butcher, from Augusta University in Georgia, US, said: “Ultimately, the goal of our research would be to create a pill that mimics the effect of e
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday told the leaders of Canada and Mexico, the North American Free Trade Agreement partners, that the United States will not terminate the regional free trade agreement at this stage. In phone calls to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Canadian Prime Ministe
Riyadh – Saudi Arabia and Djibouti signed on Wednesday a cooperation agreement in the military field. The agreement, which aims at enhancing military cooperation between the two states, was co-signed by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Defe
Riyadh- The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz has received at al-Yamamah Palace President Alpha Conde of Republic of Guinea-Conakry and President of the African Union. The King welcomed the Guinean President who expressed his happiness to visit the Kingdom and meet with the
London- A consortium of British companies intends to start testing driverless cars on the United Kingdoms’ public roads in in 2019. According to the BBC, the consortium will also start to try out trips of autonomous vehicles between London and Oxford. Each driverless car will have a human on board a
Buenos Aires, London- A gang of over 50 armed members have stolen several million dollars from a vault in Paraguay. According to local officials, this operation was the “heist of the century.” The German News Agency said police reported that the assailants are Brazilians who killed a pol
Moscow- Russian scientists from the universities of St. Petersburg and Tomsk discovered new species of rodents that belong to mammals that existed on earth 145 million years ago. According to Novosti Agency, a team of scientists discovered the remnants of the animal during a joint expedition to Sibe
Ankara- The Damlatas Cave in the Turkish district of Alanya in Antalya province has become a popular destination for people suffering from Asthma from across the world. The renowned cave, which maintains the same degree of temperature and humidity during the summer and winter seasons, welcomes thous
Ultra-hardline ISIS militants have developed an improvised explosive device (IED) that can be launched from rifles or dropped from an aerial drone, an arms monitoring group said on Wednesday. “The (IED) can be thrown, launched from an improvised rifle attachment, or in its most recent phases o
