Cairo- A tripartite meeting bringing together Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria to find a solution to the Libyan crisis will be held on Sunday instead of March 1, the Tunisian Foreign Ministry announced on Friday. In an official statement, the ministry said: “Upon consultations with the Egyptian and Algeri
Ankara- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has discussed with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov the latest developments in the region, especially in Syria and Iraq, on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers meetings. Also, U.S. Chief of Staff
Mosul- The Iraqi forces that retook east Mosul from jihadists last month have moved on to their next battle, leaving a security vacuum that has residents complaining of a job half-done. The traffic jams in the streets and the crowds swarming the shops of the eastern neighborhoods that ISIS controlle
New York- House Republicans have an ambitious plan for overhauling the way American businesses are taxed. A short list of the plan’s potential benefits looks awesome: It would give companies more incentive to keep jobs in the United States, less to overextend themselves on borrowed money and provide
Mosul- When the boys first arrived at ISIS training facility in eastern Mosul they would cry and ask about their parents, who went missing when the militants rampaged through northern Iraq in 2014. But as the weeks passed they appeared to absorb the group’s ultra-hardline ideology, according t
Mosul- ISIS militants are developing a network of passageways and tunnels in the narrow alleys of west Mosul that will enable them to hide and fight among the civilian population when Iraqi forces launch an attack that is expected any day now. Residents said the fighters have been opening passages i
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched on Friday his campaign to win a ‘yes’ vote at the April 16 referendum on expanding his powers. He kicked off the campaign, after having returned from a tour of Gulf countries, in the eastern city of Kahramanmaras, one of the areas that gave
The United States Senate is expected to approve President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday over the objections of Democrats and green groups worried he will gut the agency, as the administration readies executive orders to ease regulation on drillers and
Scott Hogan would no doubt testify, it sometimes takes rejection to change the course of history. “We wanted to sign him, 100%,” says the Rochdale manager, Keith Hill, “but he just wasn’t ready.” Almost six years before he completed his move from Brentford to Aston Villa for a fee that may eventuall
The death toll from a huge car bomb attack at a used car market in the south of Iraq’s capital has reached 59 with 66 others injured, a police officer and medical sources said Friday. Authorities initially said the Thursday attack at the auto dealership in the al-Bayaa neighborhood killed at l
Pakistan launched a crackdown Friday after the death toll in a shrine blast claimed by ISIS increased to 88, the deadliest in a wave of attacks that have been targeting the country. The attack came after a series of bloody extremist assaults this week, including a powerful Taliban suicide bomb in th
Spain’s Princess Cristina was cleared on Friday of helping her husband evade taxes after a year-long trial. The ruling said: “We must acquit and we are acquitting Cristina Federica… of tax fraud, of which she was accused.” Cristina’s husband, Inaki Urdangarin, was sentenced to over six years i
The Kremlin said on Friday it was not disappointed by how U.S.-Russia ties were developing under U.S. President Donald Trump and that it would only be possible to assess the outlook for relations once the leaders of both countries had met. “We haven’t been wearing rose-tinted glasses, we
A soldier from the United Arab Emirates died while taking part in the Saudi-led operation in Yemen, state news agency WAM reported on Friday, without clarifying the circumstances of his death. “The General Command of the UAE Armed Forces has announced the martyrdom of serviceman Soliman Mohammed Sol
Dammam – The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), announced on Thursday the shortlist for the 2017 prize, which includes six novels from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon and Egypt. The list consists of Kuwaiti Ismail Fahd Ismail, for Al-Sabiliat, Libyan Najwa Binshatwan, fo
Ramallah-Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement has chosen Mahmoud al-Aloul as deputy party leader. Aloul is a member of the central committee of Fatah, which approved the decision amid criticism by supporters of Prisoner Marwan Barghouti, who was anticipating his appointment, esp
Riyadh – Maj. Gen. Bassam Attia, director of the Investigations and Strategic Planning Center of the Interior Ministry, said that Saudi Arabia was facing continuous threats by terrorist organizations of religious nature. Attia was speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper following Thursday’s anno
Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward has rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer to be the new national security adviser, a senior White House official said on Thursday. Harward who is a senior executive at Lockheed Martin, was offered the job after Michael Flynn resigned over a scandal involvin
Geneva- A new body is being set up at the United Nations in Geneva to prepare prosecutions of war crimes committed in Syria, U.N. officials and diplomats said on Thursday. The General Assembly voted to establish the mechanism in December and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is due to name a j
Ankara- Turkish police have detained another suspect as part of the investigation into the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andrei Karlov in December last year. A total of three people, including two police officers, were detained in the case prior to Thursday’s arrest. The unidentified
