Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner on Monday said he had roughly four meetings with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition but denied any collusion to help his father-in-law Donald Trump be elected president, US media said. In a written 11-page statement Kushner
Riyadh- Advisor at the Royal Court and General Supervisor of King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid Dr. Abdullah al-Rabiah said that areas controlled by Houthi militias are greatly affected by the cholera epidemic as Houthis prevent the delivery of aid to these areas. In an interview wit
Khartoum- Sudan’s Communications and Information Technology Commission (CTC) announced an approximately one billion dollars in government fees being collected through e-platforms over the past six months. The digital government initiative was recently launched in the North African state. The ministr
Riyadh – As the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Yemen’s cholera outbreak was far from being over, Houthi militias continued to withhold three vehicles loaded with cholera medications for the fourth day in a row in the province of Hodeidah, west of Yemen. Yemeni Minister of Local
London- Days after the Judicial Committee of the Iranian Parliament’s House spokesman Hassan Norouzi approved a bill that would allow the Iranian government to distribute drugs among addicts, an official in the Expediency Discernment Council of the System revealed that 17 percent of Iranians t
Cairo – The entire world is preparing for the battle of liberating Syria’s Raqqa from the clutches of ISIS, only days after the terrorist group was defeated in Iraq’s Mosul. Does this mean that ISIS will be destroyed permanently? A Russian orientalist researcher said that the liberation of Mosul is
Police in the northern Nigerian city of Kano said they arrested five suspected Boko Haram militants following a gunfight Sunday as eight people were killed after female suicide bombers attacked two displaced persons camps in northeastern Nigeria’s main city of Maiduguri. The arrested suspects
Cairo- Egypt’s interior ministry announced on Sunday the death of eight terrorists and the arrest of five Hasm extremists in Faiyum, Giza, and Sharqia. Egyptian police killed eight Hasm Movement militants in a shootout during a raid on their training camp south of Cairo, the interior ministry said i
Taiz – International Committee Red Cross (ICRC) President Peter Maurer will visit Taiz in Yemen on Monday, according to Adnan Hazzam, a Red Cross spokesman in Sana’a. Maurer will arrive in Taiz after his visit to Aden and he is expected to meet several officials to discuss the humanitarian sit
Ramallah– The Palestinian Authority (PA) and national and religious figures in Jerusalem have voiced their rejection to all alternative measures to the electronic gates placed at the entrances of Al-Aqsa Mosque, as occupation forces have installed modern surveillance cameras and started promoting ot
Ayn Issa, Raqqa, Syria- Resting in a humble tent and under scorching heat touching unprecedented peaks, Jasim Alali, 52, along with his wife, three children, and two cousins sit together reminiscing on what it was like a few days before being driven out of their hometown, Raqqa. Soaad,48, says that
France confirmed that it will host talks on Tuesday between Fayez al-Sarraj, head of Libya’s UN-backed government in Tripoli, and Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the Libyan National Army in the divided country’s east. During the talks, President Emmanuel Macron aims to show France’
Riyadh – Qatar’s support of Yemen’s Houthi rebels has “revealed the truth of the ties that have existed for some time now between the two sides,” analysts told Asharq Al-Awsat. They said that Qatar’s negative approach, not only harms the Gulf Cooperation Council and its national security, but it is
Baghdad, Tehran- Iraq and Iran signed on Sunday several deals aimed at boosting their military cooperation during the visit of Iraqi Defense Minister Irfan al-Hayali to Tehran where he met with his Iranian counterpart minister Hossein Dehghan. “Extending cooperation and exchanging experiences
Dammam- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz on Sunday at Al-Salam Palace, where they showcased bilateral ties and discussed developments in the region and efforts to combat terrorism and sources of its funds. Erdogan’s visit to
Amman- A Jordanian man, 17, was killed on Sunday after getting wounded during a quarrel between him and an Israeli at a residential building affiliated with the Israeli embassy in the Rabieh neighborhood in west Amman, a Jordanian security source said. The source said that the Jordanian man was guns
Kuwait, Brussels– Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al Sabah met on Sunday with EU High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, who arrived in Kuwait for a visit aimed at discussing the Qatari crisis and relations between the EU and the Gulf.
Beirut – The battle in Lebanon’s northeastern border region of Arsal have revived the chances of negotiations between the al-Nusra Front and “Hezbollah” over the former’s withdrawal from the area towards Syria. These chances were bolstered after the Lebanese party seized control of 60 percent of Nus
London- A draft received by Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper of the agreement reached with the Syrian opposition on how a ceasefire will function in Damascus’ Ghouta stipulates deploying 150 Russian police officers at the cross-line between regime forces and the opposition. Also, the draft of the agreement
Tunisia- The Tunisian Central Bank has focused on restructuring the country’s banking sector during a forum organized on reforms for public banks, restructuring them and guaranteeing their financial integrity without losing them to privatization. The forum’s attendees discussed how to accelerate the
