London – The US Department of Defense (Pentagon) hinted at deploying “limited forces” in Yemen, within the framework of its war against al-Qaeda terrorist group. Pentagon Spokesperson Jeff Davis told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that his country was still concerned over the activities of al-Qaeda and o
Cologne – German federal prosecutors said Thursday that they had cleared the sole suspect in custody for Tuesday’s bomb attack against the Borussia Dortmund football team bus of involvement in the crime. “The investigation has not found evidence that the suspect took part in the attack,&
Erbil – A referendum will be held this fall to decide on the political fate of northern Iraq’s Kurdish region, revealed the media advisor of Iraq Kurdistan presidential office, Kifah Mahmoud. In remarks to Asharq Al-Awsat, Mahmoud said: “The leaderships of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and th
Riyadh – Deputy Crown Prince, Second Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Defense Prince Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz affirmed Wednesday the Kingdom’s full support to Egypt against terrorism. During a phone call with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the Deputy Crown Prince expre
The first Muslim woman to serve as a US judge was found dead in New York’s Hudson River on Wednesday, police said. Groundbreaking black jurist Sheila Abdus-Salaam, a 65-year-old associate judge of New York’s highest court, was found floating off Manhattan’s west side at about 1545
Abuja, London- An alarming number of children have been used by Boko Haram as suicide bombers in the first months of 2017, UNICEF said Wednesday. Experts said the number of children used in suicide attacks by Boko Haram in public places across Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon surged to 27 in the fi
London- Iran’s hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dropped a bombshell in Tehran on Wednesday as he defied Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s advice and signed up for the May presidential elections. Khamenei had previously recommended that Ahmadinejad stands out this election to avoid widening
The Japanese air force has sent fighter jets after foreign aircraft at a record pace in the past year to March 31 revealed government figures amid growing tensions with Beijing over disputed islands in the Easy China Sea and western Pacific. Japan worries that China’s probing of its air defens
Two people were killed during the ongoing unrest in Venezuela as groups in Caracas’ traditionally pro-government hillside slums and low-income neighborhoods took to the streets. Venezuelans in poor areas blocked streets and lit fires during scattered protests across the country on Tuesday nigh
Ramallah- Palestine leader Mahmoud Abbas criticized the new Hamas declaration in Gaza, saying that not only it represents a challenge but has also forced the Palestinian Authority to take measures to counter its effect. A Gaza Strip official said that Hamas openly welcomes the incoming Fatah delegat
Moscow, New York – Russia on Wednesday vetoed a UN draft resolution that calls on the Syrian regime to cooperate in investigating a chemical attack in the province of Idlib last week. It was the eighth time during Syria’s six-year-old civil war that Moscow has used its veto power in the Security Cou
Riyadh – Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz received on Wednesday Member of Parliament from British Conservative Party and Chairman of Saudi-British Group in the British Parliament Charlotte Leslie. Leslie was accompanied by a number of members of the British parliament. Dur
President Donald Trump’s Russian reset is in big trouble. That’s one message of a four-page dossier on the Syrian regime’s April 4 chemical weapons attack that killed up to 100 people and injured many more. The document, prepared by the National Security Council and scheduled for r
Beirut – Lebanese President Michel Aoun suspended on Wednesday the country’s parliament in an attempt to prevent it from extending its own term for a third time. Aoun resorted to Article 59 of the constitution that grants the president the power to suspend parliament for one month. This was the firs
While the United Sates’ limited missile attack on a Syrian air-base has won broad support across the world, a handful of nations have opted for a widdershins analysis. The “quartet” of Russia, Iran, North Korea, and the truncated government led by the regime of Bashar al-Assad are promoting seven my
The United States told Russia at the United Nations on Wednesday that is it isolating itself by continuing to support Syrian regime head Bashar al-Assad, while Britain said its scientists found sarin was used in a deadly toxic gas attack on Syrian civilians last week. Russia is set to block a push b
A coup-run court has sentenced to death Yahya Al-Jubaihi, a journalist who was abducted from his house in Sanaa, Yemen last September, said the Saudi news agency SPA. Yemeni sources said the court ruled to execute Jubaihi, for fabricated and forged accusations. “The ruling was sudden and unexpected,
Let us forget about fake ‘nationalist’ condemnation, and shedding crocodile tears on doubtful ‘sovereignty’, since Syria became nothing but a ‘mailbox’ for exchanging regional international political messages. Let us also look deeper into a situation whereby human lives have become irrelevant agains
The fact that the referee Martin Atkinson sounds even more like the comedian Bob Mortimer than he looks was not the most interesting revelation to emerge from Sky’s recent effort to show the human side of match officials on The Referees – Onside with Carragher and Neville. Criticism from fans goes w
wo years ago Christian Bassogog was earning £25 a week with Rainbow FC in the Cameroonian second division. Today he is an Africa Cup of Nations champion with Cameroon and, having been named as the best player at the recent tournament in Gabon, his weekly wage has rocketed to £60,000 after tax. “In m
