Washington – President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, in response to the U.N. resolution against the Israeli settlements in Palestine. Trump expressed his intentions to visit Jerusalem next year, as the capital of Israel, according to an i
A Russian military plane carrying 92 people, including dozens of Red Army Choir singers, dancers and orchestra members, crashed into the Black Sea while heading to Syria on Sunday morning. A TU-154 plane had disappeared from radar screens at 5:25 a.m. (0225 GMT), two minutes after taking off from Ad
There will be no need for a public outcry should Sam Allardyce, as is widely anticipated, return to management with Crystal Palace before the year is out. The same year when his long-held ambition of becoming England manager was realised and then curtailed a mere 67 days later, the shortest reign of
Makhmour – U.S. forces decided to increase its participation in the Mosul offensive, a senior commander said on Friday. The U.S. forces assisting Iraqi troops to retake Mosul from ISIS will increase the number of troops, which could accelerate the two month-old campaign which has slackened after qui
Riyadh- The unified “Citizens Account Program” represents a new step on the level of guiding the Saudi subsidy to limit the influence of energy prices increase on citizens – before, the purpose of subsidy was to reduce the rise of prices and to make them affordable for citizens, residents, companies
Gary Lineker is right. There seems no point even appealing against a red card any more because unless you have evidence to prove mistaken identity or something similar the Football Association’s independent regulatory commission is simply going to back the referee’s decision. “Utterly pointless,” Li
Aden- Yemen’s ambassador to the U.N. Khalid Hussein al-Yamani said the total registered number of detainees and abducted by the Houthi and Saleh militias reached 4,414 – According to Yamani, the arrested are activists, politicians and journalists in addition to some workers. Yamani, in a lette
Cairo- Libyans lived hours of fear before the hijacking of a Libyan plane ended peacefully. Two armed men had hijacked the airplane and obliged it to stand-off in Malta, 500 km north of the Libyan coast. According to Libyan sources, the two hijackers are: Moussa Shaha and Ahmed Ali and they are not
Rome, Berlin- Anis Amri, the lead suspect in the attack on a Berlin Christmas market, has been shot, according to the Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti. “The man killed was without a shadow of doubt Anis Amri,” Minniti said in a news conference. Minniti told reporters that Amri was
Beirut – The file of the Russian-Iranian-Turkish meeting was present during the visit of Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab-African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari to Beirut, where he met on Friday with President Michel Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri. Ansari, who had arrived here on Thursday
Jeddah- Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif, deputy premier and minister of interior, said the Ministry of Interior accords top priority to the training of personnel. During the inspection of a trainer ship on Wednesday evening, which recently arrived in the Kingdom after being launched by the prince sev
London – Iranian authorities were worried on Friday after a drone flew near the office of the country’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran. Iran’s anti-aircraft forces extensively fired at the drone as it approached the Pasteur strategic area, where the office of the supreme leader is locat
Beirut, Moscow – While the Syrian opposition’s High Negotiations Committee (HNC) had anticipated the distribution of invitations to the Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, by rejecting to participate in the intra-Syrian meeting, informed sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that Russia is about
Cairo- Security forces are taking stronger measures to protect top officials and personalities after they thwarted an attempt to assassinate a high-ranking official who was not identified, Egyptian sources said. Egypt has in the past months witnessed terrorist attacks and assassination attempts of c
Ankara- Turkish security forces detained in Istanbul on Friday 31 people suspected of links to ISIS. Anti-terror units also carried out raids in several of the city’s neighborhoods after the prosecutor’s office issued arrest warrants for 41 people. The remaining 10 suspects could not immediately be
Anis Amri, the Tunisian suspect in the Berlin truck attack who was shot dead in Milan on Friday, was found to be a small-time criminal that later turned terrorist Killer. Amri had taken advantage of the turmoil to flee the country, escaping a four-year jail term handed down in absentia for robbery a
An Iraqi official yesterday called for a review of the curriculum and children’s culture in order to protect Iraqi children from the dangers of the sectarian tide and the serious effects that generations of Iraqis have experienced as a result of continuous wars that have been taking place there sinc
The United States’ Obama administration has not been involved in crafting or promoting a U.N. resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, a senior U.S. official said on Friday. Israel has been pointing out accusations that the United States was behind the anti-settlement resolu
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump sowed more doubt about his position on nuclear proliferation on Friday, reportedly welcoming an arms race even as his spokesman insisted that an atomic weapons build-up was not likely to happen. Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, caused alarm on Thursday on Twitter
The Iraqi army announced yesterday that 23 people, including eight policemen, were killed and dozens wounded after three car bombs targeting a popular market in Kokjali, an eastern suburb of Mosul, were detonated. ISIS claimed responsibility for the bombings. A statement issued by the joint operatio
