In our issue of Sunday 27 March 2016 we published an article headlined “Iranian Agents are active in Libya- and they are pushing it towards division”, in which we reported the findings of intelligence reports from Tripoli, which referred to an individual given the nickname “Aghil”. Mohamed Aghil, a
Hundreds of people fled Mosul on Saturday after national Iraqi forces retook two more districts in the west of the city from terror group ISIS. Families transported in busses deporting from a government checkpoint in the south of the city to camps housing more than 410,000 people displaced since the
Taif University, based in Saudi Arabia, officially announced on Saturday its effort invested in developing an Islamic culture program. The new program focuses on university students in all medical, scientific and humanitarian disciplines and employs modern methods of teaching, reported Saudi Press A
A man threatened police with a knife at Gare du Nord train station in Paris on Saturday, causing panic before he was arrested, a spokesman for French rail operator SNCF said. The SNCF spokesman said the man had approached gendarmes patrolling the train station. He was told to lie down and followed t
London – Two days after an exhausted Brighton had lost to Sheffield Wednesday in last season’s play-off semi-final, the club announced that the manager, Chris Hughton, had signed a new four-year contract. In the afterglow of ostensible failure that sort of thing might have been regarded as ina
Madrid – There are supposed to be about 1,300 words in this article. It is tempting to just spend 1,287 of them listing the things that Cristiano Ronaldo has done at Real Madrid – and there are more than enough of them to take up all that space, that is for sure, from the two […]
Two years into his campaign as change agent in this conservative oil kingdom, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appears to be gaining the confidence and political clout to push his agenda of economic and social reform. The young prince outlined his plans in a nearly 90-minute conversation Tues
During past discussions on development in the region, calls for family planning – precisely controlling birth – were only faced with aggressive answers or hostile responses, considering the subject as suspicious foreign projects. Thus, houses and cities have become crowded and the result
Thousands of people rallied in Australia and New Zealand Saturday in support of science, the first of more than 500 marches globally, including events in the United States, triggered by concern over the rise of “alternative facts”. The March for Science demonstrations come amid growing a
Pentagon chief Jim Mattis met Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani Saturday during a visit to the Gulf state which hosts the largest US air base in the Middle East. The visit to Doha is part of a Mideast tour which has included stops in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel. Mattis has a scheduled
Jeddah – Saudi Ambassador to Yemen Mohammed Al Jaber said that the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) – which headquarter is in Jeddah, has implemented 31 development projects in Yemen worth $364.8 million (SR1.368 billion) in all Yemeni governorates. During his visit Thursday to the Bank an
The Lebanese army intelligence on Saturday killed an ISIS leader and arrested ten terrorists after they came over the northeastern border from Syria, the military and the state-run National News Agency said. “An army unit carried out a swift raid at dawn today in Arsal, resulting in the arrest
Paris – Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister Riad al-Maliki said that the upcoming visit of President Mahmoud Abbas to Washington next month was an “opportunity” to influence the new US Administration. In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper on the sidelines of his visit to Paris, Maliki said
Cairo – Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud will hold a summit with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Sunday in Riyadh. The summit will address means of boosting strategic bilateral relations and consultations on various regional and international issue
France was on edge Saturday on the eve of its nail-biting presidential election, which will take place under heightened security after the jihadist killing of a policeman in Paris’ Champs Elysees Avenue. Analysts say Thursday’s attack could shake up the four-way contest between far-right leade
Tel Aviv- Three US F-35 stealth fighter planes are on their way from the United States to Israel to join two other warplanes which landed in the country last year, The Israeli air force has announced. The five fighter jets are part of a deal to provide Israel with 50 jets by 2021. Israel is [&hellip
London – The Iranian Interior Ministry announced the list of qualified candidates late Thursday night after receiving it from the Guardian Council, effectively allowing them to launch their election campaigns. In the peak of reactions on the final list, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gra
Venezuela braced for new marches Saturday against President Nicolas Maduro, after the death toll climbed to 20 in three weeks of violence, the result of a crisis sparked by demands for the leftist leader’s ouster. The last protests, on Thursday, descended into a night of riots and looting that
Istanbul – A referendum that was held in Turkey last Sunday put the country on the doorsteps of the Second Republic as a result of the Constitutional amendments that would deal a blow to the First Republic that was founded by Mustafa Kemal known as Ataturk in 1923. The ‘Yes’ side w
Beirut – In a response to the field tour by “Hezbollah” for journalists along the Lebanese-Israeli border where party commanders revealed their faces for the first time, Prime Minister Saad Hariri arrived at the city of Naqoura on Friday, accompanied by Defense Minister Yacoub Sarraf and Leban
