Washington – One day after CIA released millions of classified pages online, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) rushed to release the fourth and final batch or al-Qaeda correspondence, which were found by U.S. soldiers in 2011. The 49 documents released on Friday includ
Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump will be the least popular newly inaugurated U.S. president in the history of U.S. presidents. A survey conducted by Washington Post and ABC News revealed that 405% of Americans approve the way Trump handled the presidential transition. Washington Post s
Less than a fortnight ago, the day after Manchester City’s 5-0 demolition of West Ham United away from home in the FA Cup, the Sun produced one of the more inspired back pages of the season in honour of the performance. “MC Hammer!” the main headline screamed, accompanied by a picture of David Silva
Riyadh – Saudi leadership offered condolences to Italian President Sergio Mattarella following the earthquake that left many victims and to also condoled Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta after the terrorist attack that occurred in Gao. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abd
In February 2015, economists at HSBC Holdings in London coined the terms “hard” and “soft” Brexit. The latter would maintain “much of the status quo” if the U.K. voted to quit the European Union; the former entailed “huge risk and would be operationally comp
Even if the new American President Donald Trump decides to build walls with his neighbors, expel 10 million illegal residents from the U.S. and abstain from extending his protection over Europe and southeast Asia and his allies in the Middle East, we will not worry much because American policy under
Brigadier Ahmed Abu Shahma, the military governor of the city of Sirte in southwestern Libya, told Asharq Al-Awsat that sudden air strikes carried out by US warplanes at dawn yesterday against ISIS sites in the city were implemented at the request of Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous forces and information provi
A rocket was fired near the police headquarters in Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul on Friday. Nevertheless, the projectile missed the building and there were no reports of casualties, national broadcaster CNN Turk said. Turkey has been hit by a series of gun and bomb attacks in recent months
European market shares fell, posting their biggest weekly loss since before Donald Trump won the U.S presidential election in November, as investors grew cautious before his inauguration. The STOXX 600 closed 0.1 percent lower, marking a five-day loss of almost 1 percent. Britain’s FTSE slippe
Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Friday, succeeding Barack Obama and taking control of a divided country in a transition of power that he has declared will lead to “America First” policies at home and abroad. As scattered protests erupted elsewhere
One of the most exciting activities that took place at the World Economic Forum that is currently being held in Davos was the United Arab Emirates’ presentation about the future which is being manufactured in the world’s laboratories. It differed from the wars and conflicts in our region that were b
Riyadh – Saudi stock market companies continued to announce fiscal results of 2016 one after another. Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC), one of the world’s largest petrochemicals groups, announced a 4.5% drop of net profit in 2016. Saudi Telecom Company (STC) reported a rebound in four
Paris- France declared its conditioned support three days ahead of the Syria talks to be held in the Kazakhstan capital, Astana, despite that the European country did not receive an official invitation to the negotiations. The peace talks are the first to bring face to face a representing regime del
Haggling with Brentford over the asking price for Scott Hogan, testing Sunderland’s sense of humour with a £4m offer for Jermain Defoe, steeling themselves for bids for the mutinous Dimitri Payet, waving goodbye to Simone Zaza and preparing to point Jonathan Calleri to the exit, how West Ham United
Washington- The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has declassified about 930,000 documents, totaling some 12 million pages, unlike what has been rumored that 13 million declassified documents were released. Previously, the database was only accessible at the National Archives Records Administration
London- Iranian Revolutionary Guard Spokesman Ramezan Sharif warned from the spreading deprivation and corruption describing them as “Iran’s inner adversary” that could widen the rift between the people of Iran and the ruling authority. Even though Sharif acknowledged the widespread pove
Cairo – The Museum of Islamic Art, the biggest Islamic museum in the word has returned to life after three years of closure following a terrorist attack that targeted a security building near it in January 2014. The museum was inaugurated by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, who watched a docume
Abu Dhabi – Statistics of the Arab Monetary Fund revealed that economies of Arab countries achieved around 3.4% growth over the past five years (2012-2016), while they expected to reach 2.8% growth in 2017 compared with 2.3% in 2016. Statistics showed that the current growth rates didn’t reach
Aden- Jeddah- Yemeni former National Guard commanders, now defectors serving a guerrilla war seeking to override the constitutionally elected government, have reportedly been killed, Yemen-based sources said. The commanders occupied high-end posts in leading the armed putsch staged by Iran-aligned H
Ankara- Mohammad Alloush of the Jaish al-Islam faction and member of the High Negotiations Committee (HNC) said that the purpose of opposition’s participation in Astana negotiations is to affirm commitment to the ceasefire, release arrestees in the regime prisons and to break the siege over certain
