Washington – An agreement that settles lawsuits accusing the New York Police Department of violating basic rights in Muslim communities after Sept. 11, 2001, has been revised to build in more oversight that acts as a check against surveillance abuses. New York City’s Police Department has agre
Cairo – Arab Foreign Ministers renewed their countries’ full commitment to the Arab Peace initiative of 2002. The ministers resolutions came during the 147th session of Arab League Foreign Ministers Council on Tuesday at the organization’s general secretariat headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, chai
London- Iran’s Assembly of Experts, during its Wednesday meeting, witnessed criticism directed by the body’s head Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati against President Hassan Rouhani on the deteriorating economy and his administration’s secrecy. Jannati warned the return of national strife, with Rouhani respond
The leader of ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has abandoned operational commanders behind with diehard followers to continue waging the battle of Mosul in Iraq, said US and Iraqi officials. He is now hiding out in the desert, focusing mainly on his own survival, they added. It is impossible to confirm the
Seoul – Only one day after North Korea tested its ballistic missiles, the United States started to deploy the first elements of its advanced anti-missile defense system (THAAD) in South Korea on Tuesday. The four ballistic missiles fired by North Korea landed in the sea off Japan’s northwest,
London – Al-Qaeda Leader in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) Qassim al-Reymi accused an “unresponsive” United States of refusing to free blind Sheikh Omar Abdulrahman in return for the release of an American hostage it was holding in Yemen. Abdulrahman, born in Egypt in 1938 and also known as “the
A trove of documents released by WikiLeaks alleges a CIA surveillance program that targets everyday gadgets ranging from smart TVs to smartphones to cars. According to WikiLeaks, such snooping could turn some of these devices into recorders of everyday conversations — and could also circumvent data-
The UN human rights chief warned on Wednesday against US President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, saying the country needed better leadership to meet grave challenges like surging xenophobia and religious discrimination. “Greater and more consistent leadership is needed to address the re
Aden – Yemen President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi said that the insurgency led by Iran-aligned Houthi militias and armed loyalists backing ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh is actively blocking the agenda on political transition. President Hadi urged international forces to help out Yemen, especi
ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack on Afghanistan’s largest military hospital in the capital Kabul on Wednesday in which gunmen dressed as doctors stormed the facility and battled security forces inside the building for several hours. The attack began when a suicide bomber blew himself up at
Riyadh – Houthi and Saleh coup militias in Yemen recruited over 4,960 children, mostly in the northern governorates, according to a recent rights report. The Yemeni Coalition to Monitor Violations of Human Rights said in its second annual report that the country witnessed over 5,092 documented viola
Riyadh – In a new step aimed at boosting the size of investment and business activities in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Ministry of Commerce and Investment (MOCI) has been working on launching a unified e-platform to provide all services needed by investors and entrepreneurs for them to start their
Beirut – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said that the potential discovery of petroleum resources in the Mediterranean Sea along Lebanon’s coast bolsters hopes for economic growth and prosperity. He said during his patronage of the “Oil and Gas Forum: Roadmap” at Ecole Superieure des Affai
Ramallah- Palestine’s Hamas organization is moving towards declaring a Palestinian state over the 1967 borders, without first recognizing an Israeli state. Any official statement concerning altering the charter, issued by the bloc governing Gaza Strip will be verified and released after holding poli
Police have shot dead an ISIS member when he pulled a gun on a patrol in the capital Riyadh, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA on Wednesday. The patrol was trying to check a complaint at 6:00 pm Tuesday that a resident of a furnished apartment in the [&hellip
Manbij – At a checkpoint for Kurdish and Arab forces in northern Syria, a weary elderly woman and her husband sit in a truck, surrounded by their belongings, waiting for safe passage away from the ISIS group. They are among thousands of civilians waiting long hours at checkpoints as they flee a Syri
Mosul- Crawl through a labyrinth of narrow tunnels in near total darkness and suddenly they appear: two great winged bulls dating from the Assyrian empire found intact under the ground of Mosul. But as fighting rages to evict ISIS from the main city in northern Iraq, it will be a race against time t
London – If you are lucky enough to wander the city of Bilbao, capital of Spain’s Basque Country, you will definitely book a date with the Guggenheim Museum. This huge striking building is located in a suburb that was established as a space for artistic expression. In order to enter the museum
Mosul- Amid signs of ISIS’ retreat in west Mosul, U.S. and Kurdish sources confirmed that hundreds of the organization’s foreign fighters have already fled the city in the direction of Syria. Meanwhile, Iraqi forces announced liberating the government complex in the city where they raised the Iraqi
Riyadh – Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s condemnation of the attack on a military base in the Republic of Mali near the border with the Republic of Burkina Faso, in which eleven soldiers were killed and four injured, on Sunday, 5 March 2017, according to an
