It was a chilling warning that Alan Curtis issued and there was no reason to suspect that Swansea City’s caretaker manager was scaremongering. Spelling out why he thought it was crucial that the board focused on the club’s short-term future when choosing their new manager, Curtis spoke with typical
Recent warnings from international organizations of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) had brought the militia back to the front as a dangerous organization. There is a serious campaign trying to mislead the public by comparing it to other organizations like the the Sunni Awakening and Peshmerga.
A truck rammed into a group of Israeli soldiers who were disembarking from a bus at the at the Armon Hanatziv promenade in Jerusalem Sunday, killing at least four people and wounding 15 others, Israeli police and rescue services said. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the truck veered off course an
It has been twelve weeks since the Mosul offensive to drive ISIS hardliners out of their Iraq stronghold launched– the whole world awaits good news on the decisive battle. Iraqi forces, backed by an international coalition, currently are the chief the power combating ISIS in the northern Iraqi
A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car Sunday at a vegetable market in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 13 civilians and wounding more than 50, police and medical sources said, the latest in a recent bout of violence claimed by ISIS group. Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan
Washington – The U.S. Congress officially approved on Friday the presidential elections’ results on November 08 which the Republican billionaire Donald Trump won. As controversial as it may seem, the results coincided with the publication of a report that accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of
Cairo- The Egyptian Ministry of Awqaf, headed by Minister of Religious Endowments Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa, has presented a regulatory five-year guideline tackling Friday speeches to be put forth before current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for approval. The ministry’s statement said that it has prese
Riyadh – Saudi security authorities killed Taie al-Saya’ari, an expert in making explosive belts used by militants in suicide attacks who orchestrated the attacks on the Prophet’s Mosque last year, mosque of Saudi special forces in Asir, as well as the attack in the parking lots of Dr. Soliman
London- Iranian Nobel peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi on Saturday accused Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei of being responsible for corruption spreading across his country and especially in the national judiciary system. Ebadi is not only a lawyer but also a former judge and human rights activis
Beirut- Defense Minister Yaacoub Sarraf said the upcoming visit of Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun to the Kingdom early next week exceeds the effort to activate a Saudi arms grant for the Lebanese Army, but rather lies in the framework of underlining the special relations between both countries. Sar
London – Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense believes that Iran represents the three main ills of the Middle East, adding that there is no point in negotiating with a power that is committed to exporting its exclusivist ideology, engaging in terrori
Beirut- Sources at the Syrian opposition announced on Saturday that eight large opposition factions had merged in the north of Syria under the name of “Leadership Council For Liberation Of Syria.” An opposition source told Asharq Al-Awsat that the factions that agreed to merge include: Ahrar al-Sham
Ankara- As Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced on Saturday that an agreement was reached with his Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim concerning the withdrawal of Turkish forces from the Bashiqa camp north Mosul, Turkey’s Prime Minister asserted that his forces would only withdraw when se
Portugal’s former president and prime minister Mario Soares, who was a central figure in the country’s return to democracy in the 1970s after decades of rightist dictatorship, died on Saturday aged 92, doctors said. He was hospitalized on Dec. 13 and had mostly been in a coma since then,
The selection of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan as chief guest demonstrates the ruling Narender Modi government’s special focus on the Gulf region. The last time a leader from the Gulf region graced Re
The Barada Valley area that is close to the Syrian capital Damascus remains the target of aerial bombardment and artillery barrages for the fifteenth day in a row. The Syrian regime has intensified air raids on villages and towns under siege and has been dropping more barrel bombs on civilian neighb
Two “dangerous terrorists” were killed in a Saudi security operation in the capital Riyadh on Saturday, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported, citing an Interior Ministry spokesman. The agency said a security officer was also wounded in the operation in the al-Yasmin neighborhood in n
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei believes that were it not for his country’s soldiers who were killed in the war in Syria, they would have been forced to fight American and Zionist agents in Tehran, Khorasan and Isfahan. We can consider what Khamenei said to his people and the fami
Cologne, Germany – German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Directorate General for Public Security, classified in its 2016 annual report more than 43,000 Muslims residing in Germany as extremists. The report, which was published on Friday, stated that 11,000 of these Musl
Algeria- Seven years ago, a regional wave of protests to topple authoritarian regimes in the Arab world came to be known as the ‘Arab Spring.’ The same popular uprisings against corruption in power have become a great threat to order in the North African state Algeria. Algeria’s government loudly so
