Riyadh – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz, deputy premier and minister of interior, was briefed on the preparations of the ministry’s undersecretary for planning and security development for this year’s Hajj season. During a briefing at the Ministry of Interior, the Crown Pr
Moscow- Efforts spent by international powers in the last three years have failed in putting an end to the raging armed conflict in Donbass, Eastern Ukraine, especially in Donetsk and Luhansk. Tensions have escalated with the beginning of 2017 and clashes renewed in the first half of February betwee
Cologne, Germany – Martin Shultz, the Social Democratic candidate for the German Chancellorship against conservative Angela Merkel, started his life as a football player. Shultz enjoys a great popularity in the Northern Rhine Governorate of 20 million population and Social Democratic Party lea
Riyadh – Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud issued on Sunday a royal decree, appointing 145 judges and promoting another 169 judges in various grades of the judicial sector. Minister of Justice Waleed Al-Samaani said that the royal order reflects the King’s con
Ankara, Munich – During the closing day of the Munich Security Conference held in Germany on Sunday, several speakers criticized the escalatory role played by Iran in shaking stability in the region. At the conference, which began three days ago, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir
Beirut- Few days prior to the new round of talks expected in Geneva this week and after the failure of the Astana meeting to bolster ceasefire in Syria, the opposition was looking with cautious optimism at all the recent developments anticipating the Feb. 23 round of talks. The Syrian opposition’s e
Tel Aviv – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted on Sunday he met secretly a year ago with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II in the Southern Jordanian town of Aqaba. Israel’s Haaretz daily said on Sunday that the three leaders met in the pre
Yemen’s internationally-recognized government led by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi vowed to consolidate order and stability in liberated areas after their full recapture from Houthi militias and putschists, reported Saudi state-owned news agency SPA. Yemeni Premier Ahmed Obaid bin Dhugr stressed t
An explosion near Bogota’s bullring injured at least 31 people, most of them police officers as they prepared for protests in Colombia’s capital on Sunday, the mayor’s office said. Details of the cause of the blast were not immediately available, but media images showed a police of
Syrian rebel groups who have participated in peace talks said on Sunday that an upsurge in pro-regime army shelling and bombing was wrecking the prospects of maintaining a Russian-Turkish-brokered ceasefire. The rebel groups, mostly backed by Turkey, who attended two rounds of talks in the Kazakh ca
U.S.-backed Iraqi government forces launched on Sunday a large-scale ground offensive to capture the western part of the city of Mosul from ISIS and put an end to their ambitions for territorial rule in Iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of the offensive on state TV, call
Riyadh- Gulf Cooperation Council Chief Dr. Abdullatif Al-Zayani said that terrorist groups will under no chance be able to compromise Saudi security and stability. He reiterated his confidence in the Saudi security forces that continue to thwart and stand against terror cells activities. GCC Chief Z
As long as he doesn’t blow it, and nothing in his record suggests that he will, sometime within the next three months Antonio Conte will become the fourth Italian manager to lead a team to the Premier League title. Remarkably, that quartet – in which he would join Carlo Ancelotti, Roberto Mancini an
Riyadh- Saudi Arabia’s Capital Riyadh will be holding the activities of the second Global integrity conference ‘Nazaha’ as of Monday. The event kicks ff under the patronage of his majesty King Salman bin Abdulaziz. This year’s conference is held under the topic of government transparency and account
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s efforts to secure the nation’s borders and get tough on illegal immigrants, announced just days after he took office, now face serious logistical problems along with the legal challenges that threaten his ability to make good on a central campaign promise. The crackdow
Beirut – The process of uniting the larger part of Syrian opposition factions in north Syria has been initiated to form a national army with direct support from Turkey, said a prominent opposing military source to Asharq Al-Awsat. The source said that currently, security leaders and commanders are f
Munich, Moscow- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced on Saturday that a truce in eastern Crimea will start as of Monday. The agreement was reached after a meeting in Germany’s Munich in which each of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France participated. “On Feb. 20 the ceasefire regime
London – Omar Abdul Rahman, spiritual leader of Gamaa Islamiya, died in his prison in the United States, sources confirmed. Kenneth McKoy of the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, N.C., said Abdul Rahman died at 5:40 a.m. He suffered from diabetes and coronary artery disease and had been at the
Algiers – President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika said on Saturday that the country was able to achieve national unity and inclusive reconciliation. He called on the Algerian people to go massively to the polls in the legislative elections of May 4. On the occasion of the National Day of the
Munich – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday that Washington was committed to ensuring Iran would never obtain nuclear weapons. In his first international foreign policy address for the Trump administration at the Munich Security Conference, Pence said that loosening sanctions on Iran as pa
