Manama- Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa directed that procedures regulating the public expenditure should be based on agreement between the Executive and the Legislature authorities, and through prioritizing the most important issues that benefit medium and low income citizens. King Ha
Davos – President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Masoud Barzani, said that the Iraqi Army’s military achievements in Mosul represented a hard blow against ISIS group. He added that while the Peshmerga has lost 1,668 soldiers since the beginning of the battle, 15,000 ISIS militants were killed duri
Washington- U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his pledge to eradicate ISIS from the face of the planet and warned the American intelligence agencies to be ready for wars. Trump told the CIA it had his full support on Saturday as he paid a visit to mend fences after publicly rejecting its assess
Crystal Palace What are the team’s principal weaknesses? It is easy to identify the side’s defensive problems, so chronic over the latter stages of Alan Pardew’s tenure and immediately confronted by Sam Allardyce. But the real issue remains the lack of confidence which has infected this squad over t
Riyadh- GCC Emergency Management Centre (EMC) has finalized work on the GCC regional plan to address nuclear and radioactive emergency crises, in coordination with relevant bodies in the GCC countries along with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and in line with the Cooperation Council f
Ankara- The Turkic peoples are Euro-Asian peoples that reside in north, central, and west of Eurasia. They speak the Turkic language, belong to Turkic families, and have different cultural and historic characteristics. The “Turkic” term has been used to describe the group of lingual ethnicities to w
This morning, as I watch Donald Trump standing on the steps of the Capitol taking the oath of office as the next president of the United States, one thought will be going through my mind: There, but for the grace of God, goes Hillary Rodham Clinton. Yes, there are many reasons to be wary of [&hellip
Riyadh – Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense extended thanks and appreciation for the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman for accepting to sponsor King Faisal Air Academy (KFAA) ceremony. On Wednesday, KFAA marks its 50th ann
Riyadh – Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz met at al-Yamamah Palace the Speaker of House of Representatives of Supreme Assembly of Republic of Tajikistan Shukurjon Zuhurov and his accompanying delegation. During the meeting, they reviewed relations and prospects of bilatera
Riyadh – “President of Sudan Omar Al-Bashir will visit Saudi Arabia Monday afternoon for a couple of days to discuss and coordinate with Custodian of Two Holy Mosques King Salman Bin Abdulaziz topics of mutual interest and to reinforce bilateral cooperation on economic, political and security
Tel Aviv, Ramallah- The new U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, decided to reside in Jerusalem, even before his country makes a final decision to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to the city. U.S. President Donald Trump has previously announced his country would move the U.S. embassy from Tel A
Ankara – The recent terrorist attacks which witnessed the involvement of members from Central Asia, known as the Turkic World, have raised many questions on the expansion of terrorist organizations such as ISIS and al-Qaeda in these regions and the impact of this expansion on the Middle East.
Taiz, Cairo- U.N. special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed arrived on Sunday in Sana’a where he is expected to meet with representatives from the Houthis and former president Ali Abdullah Saleh’s supporters as part of his tour to push Yemeni parties to accept the eighth ceasefire, ahead of re
Beirut- After it began to crumble in Mosul as a result of the offensive against it, ISIS kicked off its decisive battle in Deir Ezzor, one of the biggest cities in eastern Syria. While the terrorist organization succeeded in chocking the regime’s strongholds in the city, especially around its milita
Moscow- The Kazakh capital, Astana, is expected to witness on Monday the first face-to-face talks between a delegation of Syrian armed opposition factions and the regime, under the tripartite sponsorship of Russia, Turkey and Iran. The 10-member regime delegation, headed by its U.N. ambassador Basha
Three alleged al-Qaida operatives were killed on Sunday in Yemen’s southwestern Bayda province by a drone strike likely carried out by U.S. forces, security and tribal officials said. The men were killed when a missile hit the vehicle in which they were travelling in southern Bayda province. O
A short walk downhill from the Togo team’s hotel in Bitam, northern Gabon, a graffiti artist has been at work. “Adebayor le meilleur” – Adebayor the best – is the scrawl on the side of a breeze-blocked structure, accompanied by a telephone number. Someone is clearly keen to discuss the striker’s mer
MOSCOW- What next? This is the question making the rounds in political circles in Moscow these days with reference to the Syrian conflict and Russia’s deepening involvement. The “what next question” has found echoes even in the section of the Russian media believed to be controlled by the Kremlin, i
Aden, Taiz- Yemeni armed forces continue advancing across all battlefronts taking place at the insurgency-held enclave, Sana’a. Pro-government forces have recorded a considerable push into Sana’a’s Nihm district, local sources said. The Sana’a airport is now brought into military fire-range, said Po
Khobar- Energy ministers from OPEC and non-OPEC countries meeting in Vienna on Sunday empowered a committee set to monitor compliance with the deal meets for the first time. “I am satisfied, I am optimistic and, as I said, the markets are on their way to rebalance and it’s happening,R
