Abu Dhabi – Etihad Airways and Lufthansa German Airlines, part of Europe’s largest airline group, announced Friday the conclusion of a codeshare agreement. The arrangement is set to start in January 2017, subject to government approval. The wet-lease agreement between Lufthansa Group and
Washington – President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he will nominate campaign adviser David Friedman, a bankruptcy lawyer with hardline views on Israel, to serve as U.S. ambassador to the country. In a statement issued by Trump’s transition team, Friedman said he looked forward to moving t
Beirut- Activists have circulated photo of Aleppo’s ceasefire mediator was accused of betraying the Syrian rebels in putting the war-torn city on a plate of gold for the regime, Russia and Iran. A copy of the agreement showed four signatures only including that of Pro-Syrian regime Sheikh Omar Rahmo
Ankara- Turkey is seeking to increase the trade volume with Arab countries to reach $70 billion in 2017. The head of the Turkish-Arab Countries Business Association, Sabuhi Attar, said on the sidelines of a fair in West Turkey’s Izmir that Turkish-Arab relations are witnessing strong collabora
A new deal has been reached to complete the evacuation of rebel-held areas of east Aleppo which was interrupted by demands from pro-regime forces that two villages held by rebels also be evacuated, a Syrian rebel told news channel al-Arabiya al-Hadath on Saturday. Speaking from Aleppo, Rebel officia
London- In response to Theresa May’s remarks during the recent Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) meeting, Spokesman for the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Britain has always sought to tear down bilateral ties between the Islamic Republic of
Thirteen Turkish troops were killed and 48 more were injured when a car bomb hit a bus transporting off-duty military personnel in the in the central Anatolian province of Kayseri on Saturday, the Turkish military reported. In a statement, the Turkish armed forces said the car bomb attack went off a
Washington- Tweets made by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump are raising concerns of the U.S. Department of State that has formed a team of high-rank diplomats to discuss possible way to tackle his tweets after being deployed as a president on the 20th of upcoming January. According to U.S. customs,
Taiz – Houthi and Saleh rebel militias committed on Friday a new crime after entering a mosque in the city of al-Bayda, sporadically firing live ammunition at civilians and kidnapping a number of worshipers. Local sources and eyewitnesses told Asharq Al-Awsat that, “Militias infringed Al-Tawhi
Erbil, Washington – The visit of Iraqi former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to the south of Iraq and Basra drew protests and continued to trigger reactions, threatening of a second “Sawlat al-Fursan” similar to that conducted by Maliki in 2008 when he was a prime minister. In this context, so
English football. Is it any good or not? Do we have the game we desire, a contest with extra dimensions such as aggression and bravery, or is our version just a primitive ancestor of what everyone else is playing, a throwback revelling in the physical aspects of confrontation that more cerebral expo
Cairo – Egypt’s Parliament is expected to issue new laws to face the “Sheikhs of Sedition” and the fatwas issued to incite hatred and discrimination on religious basis. Parliamentarian sources said on Friday, “Several deputies had presented draft laws to criminalize any unqualified person who
PARIS — The main suspect in the August 2015 attack on a high-speed train in northern France was under orders from the same ISIS terrorist cell that orchestrated the Paris attacks in November 2015, his lawyer said Thursday. Ayoub El Khazzani, 26, a Moroccan citizen who had been granted Spanish reside
Beirut- More than one political party has expressed fear over the return of the series of bombings, mainly assassinations, which have targeted Lebanon in the past. A March 14 coalition lawmaker told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that he has been warned by a top security official to “be cautious.” The of
The clearing of the last opposition-held areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo was put on hold on Friday after pro-regime militias demanded that wounded people should also be brought out of two Shi’ite villages being besieged by rebel fighters. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-b
Belgium advised against all travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday and urged citizens whose presence was not essential to leave its former colony due to fears of violence in planned anti-government protests. Condemning the expulsion of two Belgian television crews, Foreign Minister Did
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday held a high level emergency security meeting at the presidential palace in the capital Ankara that was attended by the Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, a number of ministers and the heads of the security services. The meeting came after a similar m
A Chinese Navy warship has seized an underwater drone deployed by an American oceanographic vessel in international waters in the South China Sea, triggering a formal diplomatic protest from the United States and a demand for its return, a U.S. defense official told Reuters on Friday. The incident,
Turkey announced plans to set up a refugee camp inside Syria to host people evacuated from the city of Aleppo. Plans for a camp do not necessarily translate into Turkey closing down borders to sick and wounded Syrians, they will still be allowed access to Turkish hospitals, officials said on Friday.
The King Salman Centre for Relief and Humanitarian Aid provided the Basuhaib Hospital in Aden yesterday with 40 medical devices for kidney dialysis, treating the heart and carrying out x-rays. The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Yemen Dr Ali Al-Walidi confirmed the importance of these de
