Spain – Forensic scientists who exhumed the embalmed body of Spain’s surrealist artist Salvador Dali discovered that his famed mustache remained intact nearly three decades since his death. The remains of the artist are being exhumed to take DNA samples in order to settle a paternity claim. When Dal
Beirut- Battles erupted on Friday in northern Syria near the Turkey border crossing, Bab al Hawa. The rebel stronghold in Idlib has emerged as a fierce battlefield between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an alliance led by al-Qaeda’s former Syria branch, and the more moderate Ahrar al-Sham plus ma
Beirut – The Lebanese Foreign Ministry received a “strongly-worded” letter from its Kuwaiti counterpart, demanding “the Lebanese government to assume its responsibilities towards ‘Hezbollah’s’ hostile practices against Kuwait,” revealed Lebanese sources on Friday. The letter stressed that the “Hezbo
Beirut – The Syrian regime and Lebanon’s “Hezbollah” launched on Friday the long-awaited military operation on the outskirts of Arsal aimed at capturing the last remaining pockets along the Lebanese-Syrian border that lie in the hands of ISIS and al-Nusra Front groups. The Lebanese army did no
London- CIA Director Mike Pompeo has launched a scathing attack on Iran, accusing it of adopting an expansionist policy to pursue regional hegemony and dubbing the head of the Syrian regime a “puppet of the Iranians.” The defeat of ISIS is America’s top priority at the moment, Pompeo said Thursday b
The death toll in anti-government protests in Venezuela since April has reached 100, after a third death was reported from a day-long nationwide strike against embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s rule, prosecutors said Friday, raising more international fears over the growing unres
The militants may have been ousted from their Iraqi hometown of Mosul but many Christians like Haitham Behnam refuse to go back and trade in the stability of their new lives. “There’s no security, no protection for Christians back there,” said the former resident of the largest cit
White House Spokesman Sean Spicer and a member of President Donald Trump’s legal team resigned Friday in a one-two punch to a reeling administration, as pressure mounts from a broadening investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. Spicer resigned in opposition to Trump’
The United Arab Emirates on Friday welcomed Qatar’s decision to amend its anti-terrorism laws, in one of the first positive signs from the UAE and three other Arab countries since they imposed sanctions on Doha last month. In a move to address accusations of supporting terrorism, Qatar has set
Yemen’s information ministry welcomed on Friday the European television team ARTE and French newspaper “Paris Match”, which will visit Yemen this week to cover humanitarian work carried out by Red Cross teams. ARTE is a public Franco-German TV network, a European channel, that prom
Eager to curb the influence of Iran and its allies in the Middle East, Republicans and Democratic US lawmakers introduced on Thursday legislation to impose greater sanctions of Lebanese militant group “Hezbollah.” Accusing the group of violence in Syria and amassing rockets along Israel’s bord
If it looks as though Europe is clutching at straws to stop hundreds, sometimes thousands, of migrants from crossing the Mediterranean into Italy every day, that’s exactly what’s happening. On Monday, the European Union’s foreign ministers approved restrictions on the supply of inf
London- The Premier League is set to remain by far the world’s richest football league, its clubs earning approximately €2bn (£1.7bn) more collectively than those in Europe’s second richest, the German Bundesliga, according to the annual review of football finances by the consultants Deloitte. The t
London- Of all the tributes to Daniel Levy and his iron-fist-in-the-iron-glove negotiating style Sir Alex Ferguson’s is surely the most memorable. Dealing with the Tottenham Hotspur chairman, Ferguson recalled, “was more painful than my hip replacement”. It should be noted, too, that Ferguson got wh
Cairo – A delegation from the UN Security Council Counter-Extremism Committee praised the role of Al Azhar Observatory in combating extremism and terrorism. The delegation, which is currently on a visit to Egypt, has met with a number of Egyptian officials and stressed the need to promote coop
Riyadh- Asharq Al-Awsat has learned that the Saudi-Russian committee will convene in October amid expectations that this meeting will transform economic cooperation between the two countries in the fields of energy, gas and oil. These expectations coincide with calls for removing obstacles that are
The United States will ban its citizens from traveling to North Korea in wake of the death of American student Otto Warmbier last month shortly after his release from imprisonment in Pyongyang, announced travel agencies on Friday. China-based Young Pioneer Tours, which had taken Warmbier to North Ko
Gunmen have attacked a three-car police convoy on the main Cairo-to-Fayoum road, killing one policeman and injuring three others, the Egyptian interior ministry said. Egypt’s state-run news agency MENA quoted a ministry statement late Thursday as saying the gunmen fired at the last car from pl
Cairo- Aden- Arab League (AL) Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit said that coup militias in Yemen continued obstruction to a political settlement, namely solution proposals by the UN Special Envoy, is the prime reason for the country spiraling down in terms of humanitarian affairs. The AL chief blam
Cairo – The French capital will host next week a meeting between Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the Libyan National Army, and head of Libya’s UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez al-Sarraj, well-informed Libyan sources told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper. The meeting falls within
