President Donald Trump is seeking what he called a “historic” increase in military spending of more than 9 percent, a huge rise even as the United States has wound down major wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and remains the world’s strongest military power. Trump will seek to boost Pen
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdulaziz chaired a national cabinet session on Monday afternoon at the Riyadh-based Al-Yamamah Palace. At the onset of the meeting, the Vice Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif expressed that the tour a number of countri
Pep Guardiola said Manchester City will be eliminated from the Champions League if they fail to score in Monaco, despite holding a 5-3 lead from an extraordinary encounter at the Etihad Stadium. The City manager vowed to maintain his commitment to attack at Stade Louis II on 15 March after a breathl
Don’t get excited about the low unemployment rate, or high stock prices, Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute writes in his latest gloomy screed, “Our Miserable 21st Century.” Don’t believe the ninnies at the New York Times who said that “Mr. Trump wi
Saudi Arabia’s embassy based in the United Kingdom issued a statement advising Saudi citizens living in Britain to keep to the security instructions supplied by local police authorities. The released embassy statement reads that in in light of the alarming threats of terrorist attacks against the UK
Aden- Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien started a visit on Saturday to Yemen to be briefed on humanitarian situation. O’Brien met with Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi as they discussed ways to promote UN involvement in humanitarian relief affairs
Beirut – The Lebanese government is setting up an infrastructure plan, which targets areas that are most affected by the Syrian refugee crisis and provides care to the Lebanese population, which is incurring heavy burdens due to the large influx of refugees since the beginning of the Syrian war in e
Tunisia – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) postponed the payment of a second tranche of a loan scheduled in 2016 due to lack of progress in reforms, according to Finance Minister Lamia Zribi. She added that Tunisia is likely to sell stakes in three state-owned banks this year as part of r
Left stranded in the smoke of war, Syrians embark on the ultimate quest of finding a way back to national peace. They have relentlessly hunted down solutions for the six-year civil war in faraway lands such as Kazakhstan’s capital Astana and Switzerland’s Geneva. Syrians did not stop at that, but th
Manama – Four Bahraini policemen were wounded in a bomb attack on Sunday near the village of Jaw, south of the capital Manama. The planted bomb was targeting policemen who were heading to their jobs – four of them got injured and currently are in a stable condition, a security source tol
Tel Aviv- At least 83 Palestinians and Israeli-Arab prisoners or detainees are currently held in Israeli prisons on suspicion of activities or links to Salafist jihadist groups, marking a sharp increase from the 12 prisoners held on such charges at the end of 2015. Most of those arrested were influe
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that talks on consolidating the Syrian ceasefire held in Kazakhstan’s capital this year helped jumpstart the United Nations-led peace negotiations in Geneva. At the first round of the talks in Astana in January, Russia and Iran, allies of the head of t
Cairo – Several members of the Egyptian parliament demanded to check the country’s security plan against ISIS in north Sinai, in what seems a doubt of the government’s ability to end the attacks of the terrorist organization. The request comes after hundreds of Egypt’s Coptic Christians have f
An air strike has killed a senior Afghan Taliban commander who twice oversaw the capture of a strategic northern city and who has been declared dead several times in the past, officials said Monday. Mullah Abdul Salam Akhund, the Taliban shadow governor in Kunduz province, was killed on Sunday when
Like all the best fairytales Leicester City’s title story came to an end on Thursday night with a bracing little touch of cruelty. This is usually the way of these things: poisoned apples, hungry wolves, the doomed gingerbread house. Or, as in this case, someone getting the chop. And so farewell the
London- Iranian Naval Commander Admiral Habiballah Siari has announced that navy maneuvers began in a two million square kilometer area that stretches from the Strait of Hormuz to the north of the Indian Ocean near Bab-el-Mandeb. Siari stated that some segments of the Iranian Navy will take part in
Rabat – Morocco announced on Sunday withdrawing its forces from Guerguerat zone, a strait on the Western Sahara territory. King Mohammed had ordered a unilateral withdrawal from the zone in conformation with the U.N. Secretary General’s recommendations. The Moroccan Foreign Ministry said in a
London- Max Hill, the UK’s new independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, warned that ISIS fighters were planning “indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians” on a scale similar to those staged more than 40 years ago by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). In his interview with Sunday Telegr
Geneva – U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura has set out three key discussion areas as the basis for the ongoing intra-Syrian negotiations, within the framework of a working paper that he handed over to the two warring sides last week. AFP quoted de Mistura as saying on Sunday that, at t
Brussels-The Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs will jointly vote Tuesday on the legislative report on preventing the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing. The proposed directive
