What next? This was the question circulating in Western capitals hours after the United States carried out a missile attack on the Syrian air base Al-Shayrat, reportedly destroying 9 bombers and damaging a further five. Some analysts were reading too much into what was in essence a carefully calibra
Muslims World league’s secretariat general today denounced the terrorist stampede incident which took place in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, killing and injuring dozens, reported Saudi state-owned news agency SPA. In a statement, Secretary General of the MWL Sheikh Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulka
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has cancelled a scheduled visit to Moscow next week, his office announced Saturday, saying “developments in Syria have changed the situation fundamentally”. “My priority is now to continue contact with the US and others in the run up
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Brussels – As of Friday, Member States of Schengen Area were obliged to carry out systematic checks against relevant databases on EU citizens who are crossing EU’s external borders, in addition to the systematic checks already being carried out on all third-country nationals entering the Schen
Washington – One day after US Congress issued a report on the increased involvement of US citizens with ISIS and other terrorist organizations, Canada announced it has arrested a person who returned from the Middle East, believing he has joined ISIS there. Canadian Security experts said that t
Police killed 10 gunmen from Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, in an early morning shootout Saturday in Lahore, officials said, with several militants tied to a February bombing in the eastern city dying in the skirmish. The gunfight erupted as authorities were escorting five memb
Ankara – Turkish police forces arrested on Friday 29 ISIS suspects during major anti-terror raids in a number of neighborhoods in Istanbul and other Turkish cities. The campaign was launched in the framework of a series of operations carried out by security forces throughout Turkey, exceeding
President Donald Trump’s decision to strike a military airport in Syria was welcomed by members of the US Congress from both parties on Friday, who demanded however that he develop a strategy for dealing with the broader conflict and consult with Congress on any further action. In the biggest foreig
President Donald Trump scored a major victory on Friday after the US Senate confirmed conservative Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, ending a bitter political battle that pitted Democrats and Republicans for over a year. The federal judge from Colorado crossed the finish line in a 54-45 vote, one d
At least 20 people were killed and nine others were missing after a boat, transporting wedding guests, crashed with a river barge in Western Myanmar, authorities said Saturday. The boat, called “Silver Star” in Burmese, sank Friday evening in a river near Pathein, a port city west of com
Venezuelan authorities on Friday banned top opposition leader Henrique Capriles from public office for 15 years, a move that could galvanize more protests in an increasingly tense power struggle in the crisis-hit country. Capriles was one of the leaders of mass demonstrations this week against socia
The Basque separatist group ETA has given the French police a list of 12 arms caches in southwestern France under its unilateral initiative to disarm following more than four decades of armed struggle, informed sources said on Saturday. The caches are located in the departments, or counties, of the
US President Donald Trump declared on Friday that he has developed an “outstanding” relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping after a summit between the two leaders, noting the “tremendous progress” achieved in American ties with China. Trump ditched his trademark anti-China bombast
Aden – A large number of Yemenis live in dangerous humanitarian and psychological situations in light of the increasing violating acts Houthi and Saleh militias have been committing since the beginning of the war which passed its second year in several cities in Yemen. Thousands of civilians h
Beirut – “Hezbollah” and pro-Syrian regime parties in Lebanon condemned the US strike on Syria’s Shayrat airport, while President Michel Aoun slammed the use of weapons of mass destruction “by whichever side.” “Hezbollah” condemned in a statement what it described as “blatant American aggression on
Cairo- A number of Egyptian lawmakers announced on Friday that they would soon refer to the parliament a draft-law that prevents women from wearing the niqab in state institutions. The lawmakers asserted that “such a law was necessary for security reasons and as a preventive measure to confront terr
Tel Aviv – State-owned Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) signed with India the largest weapons export deal in its history. The deal, worth $2 billion, will provide India with an advanced defense system of medium-range surface-to-air missiles, launchers and communications technology, the company said
Moscow – The bombing at the metro in Russia’s second largest city, St. Petersburg, has put the authorities before new challenges most notably after it was revealed that the suspected perpetrator was a Kyrgyzstan native. Russian security authorities have still not uncovered how the suspect, Akbarzhon
Beijing – China’s garbage-strewn capital of Beijing has promised to boost spending to banish growing mountains of waste, but is struggling to persuade its residents to sort their trash. Beijing is China’s biggest municipal producer of trash, having collected 8.7 million tonnes of h
