Sydney – This two-story Victorian house was built in 1880 in Woollahra, a neighborhood of nearly 8,000 in Sydney’s verdant eastern suburbs, about three miles from the central business district. It is one of eight similar homes on an “elegant, tree-lined street,” said William Manning, a sales a
Qayyara – The babies cry with hunger but are so severely malnourished that doctors treating them at a hospital in Iraq would make their condition worse if they fed them enough to stop the pangs. Many of the starving infants are from Mosul, where war between ISIS militants and Iraqi forces is t
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said during a meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Moscow on Wednesday that the US strike in Syria should not be repeated, describing the strikes carried out by the United States on a Syrian airbase last week as unlawful. Lavrov revealed t
Ankara – Turkish security forces arrested 20 ISIS suspects during two separate raids in Konya and Adana on Tuesday. Counter-terror forces arrested 14 people in a security operation against ISIS in Konya, according to security sources. Konya has witnessed a number of anti-terror campaigns targe
Beirut – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri called on the international community on Tuesday to invest in Lebanon’s infrastructure and assist the country in bearing the burdens of the Syrian refugee crisis. “The displacement of our brothers in Lebanon, fleeing the criminality of the Syrian regime,
Riyadh- Militiamen in Yemen running a nationwide putsch have killed over 393 children in the last two years, 273 of whom had fallen victim to indiscriminate bombardment and sniper waves. Yemen’s governorate of Taiz, situated near Mocha port on the Red Sea, was the most to suffer from children casual
Beirut – The Lebanese parliament is heading towards extending its own term for the third time in a row, as political parties have failed to agree on a new electoral law within the constitutional deadline. A legislative session will be held Thursday in Beirut, during which Lebanese deputies are expec
Riyadh – Canada revealed Ottawa’s plan to expand cooperation with Riyadh in education, healthcare, advanced emerging technologies, mining and sustainable energy at a time when Saudi Arabia ranks 6th among countries that send foreign students to Canada. Canadian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Denni
Jeddah – Yemeni areas under insurgency control continue to register deteriorating humanitarian conditions, with worsening water supply shortages. The internationally backed government estimated that eight Houthi-held areas have poor water supply. With every day that passes by Yemenis locked in Houth
Brussels – A meeting of security experts from around Europe is expected to be held in the coming few hours, to evaluate the implementation of recent joint border measures, aimed at limiting the movements of foreign fighters and preventing terrorist attacks. The Schengen Border Code, which entered in
Khartoum – Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al Sabah met on Tuesday with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is on an official trip that would also take him to Bahrain. The two officials discussed bilateral relations and cooperation in the various fields. The Sudanese president and his accompa
Cairo – Armed militiamen attacked the house of Al-Seddiq Al-Kabeer, Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) in Tripoli. On the other hand, fierce clashes erupted between the Libyan National Army under the command of General Khalifa Haftar and the internationally-backed Government of Nation
London – Several explosions rocked Borussia Dortmund’s football team bus on Tuesday shortly before the start of their Champions League match with AS Monaco, injuring defender Marc Bartra and forcing the match to be rescheduled for Wednesday. Bartra was slightly injured after three explosions w
London – Hours after submitting his candidacy for Iran’s May 19 presidential elections, Mehdi Khazali told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that he was looking forward to ending his country’s adventures in Syria and Iraq and normalizing relations with Arab countries. In a phone interview, Khazali said that
Riyadh, Rawdhat Khuraim – Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and President Rodrigo Roa Duterte of Republic of the Philippines attended the signing of several memorandums of understanding that tackled several political and diplomatic fields. On Tuesday, both leaders held offi
Dubai- The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the United Arab Emirates’ ministry of energy will next week launch the first phase of a new global oil and gas database project aiming to develop an easy-to-use tool to analyze energy information and allow for more transpa
Beirut- Lebanese politician, intellectual and writer Samir Franjieh died on Tuesday after spending a lifetime of activism and fighting for his country’s independence. The 71-year-old was one of the key figures to popular resistance during the Syrian occupation of Lebanon in 1976. Franjieh never succ
Kabul, London – The World Health Organization reported that more than 2.2 million Afghans are believed to be suffering from depressive and anxiety disorders. WHO Country Representative Dr. Richard Peeperkorn said that these are just estimations, and the actual number is likely much higher. “No
All over the six years of the Syrian crisis, all parties involved never took former US President Barack Obama seriously. Moderates didn’t believe him and extremists realized he couldn’t go into battle. Damascus criminal Bashar al-Assad understood that Obama wanted to pass time until the arrival of t
Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons attack on a town in the northern Syrian province of Idlib, prompting President Trump to retaliate with missile strikes, was the opening salvo in what could be a final, epic battle to determine the future of Syria. As that struggle unfolds in Idlib, the United State
