Dubai – Before Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and his predecessor Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Shukri Mustafa, head of Takfir wal-Hijra (executed in 1978) requested the Egyptian government to allow him and his group to migrate to Damascus aiming at establishing an “Islamic” state to wait for the “
Riyadh-Saudi Arabia has renewed calls for an emergency special session of the 193-member U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) to discuss the worsening crisis in Syria. A Cabinet session chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman on Monday said the horrific humanitarian situation in Syria warra
Riyadh-Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received at al-Yamamah palace on Monday Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed al-Qasimi, Supreme Council’s Member and Ruler of Sharjah, who is currently on a visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During the meeting, they reviewed br
Beirut – A pour of meetings and talks intensified in Lebanon this week with an attempt to solve the remaining obstacles ahead of announcing the birth of a new cabinet before the festive seasons. Meetings held on Monday and the comments delivered by some officials echoed that the lineup operati
Cairo – While Egypt announced on Monday that a suicide bomber was behind Sunday’s explosion that shook Egypt’s Coptic Christian church, Cairo alluded to take swift measures facing the threat of terrorism. Speaking at a state funeral for 24 victims killed in the explosion, President Abdel
Beirut, Riyadh – The mood prevailing in Aleppo Monday hinted about the fall of the opposition after losing additional areas to Syrian regime forces. Practically, opposition factions now witness a fate similar to thousands of civilians trapped in about 10 kilometer square, seeking to find a saf
Tel Aviv- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he wants to discuss with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ways to get rid of the Iran nuclear deal. According to Netanyahu – who is expected to meet with Trump next month – there are several ways to abolish the agree
Aleppo- All children in northern Syria’s battered Aleppo are suffering from trauma after enduring some of the worst violence in their country’s war, the U.N. children’s agency has said. “All children in Aleppo are suffering. All are traumatized,” Radoslaw Rzehak, UNICEF
Aden- UNICEF has warned that malnutrition among children in Yemen has reached unprecedented levels. “Nearly 2.2 million children in Yemen are acutely malnourished and require urgent care. At least 462,000 children suffer from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), a drastic increase of almost 200 per cent
Mingora, Pakistan- When Pakistani shopkeeper Abdur Rahim’s phone rang in mid-October, he was shocked to hear the voice of a senior militant commander demanding protection money from him and his fellow traders in the Swat Valley. The menacing call was taken seriously in a northern pocket of the
The United States House Speaker Paul Ryan said that he supported effort by the House Intelligence Committee to examine cyber threats posed to the American democratic process by foreign governments, but that such efforts should not cast doubt on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. R
The Prime Minister of the Iraqi government Haider Al-Abadi yesterday held talks with the US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter who arrived in the Iraqi capital yesterday. They discussed the progress of military operations against ISIS in Mosul and the latest developments in the city during the talks
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared on Monday that a suicide bomber is responsible for the attack which killed 24 people at Cairo’s Coptic cathedral, the deadliest on the Christian minority in years. But Sisi did not name the organisation the attacker was believed to belong t
Italy is ready to pump capital into Monte dei Paschi di Siena if the ailing bank fails to get the 5 billion euros ($5.3 billion) it needs to remain in business from private investors, a Treasury source said on Monday.Executives at Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) are fighting to salvage a multibillio
Twenty nine people were killed in a suicide car bomb near Mogadishu’s largest port yesterday. The attack took place in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, in the latest suicide attack of its kind sponsored by the militant group Al-Shabaab that is linked to Al-Qaeda. According to the assertions of o
Last year as world media was gripped with excitement about what President Obama presented as “a once-in-a-lifetime” nuclear deal with Iran, the leadership in Tehran was in feverish mode over who should secure what part of the credit. Tehran dailies favorable to the Rafsanjani faction, of which Presi
Oil recorded a remarkable increase of 6.5 percent on Monday to an 18-month high after OPEC and some of its rivals reached their first deal since 2001 to jointly reduce output to try to tackle global oversupply and boost prices. Futures for Brent crude were up $2.21 at $56.54 per barrel, having hit a
London- Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan on Sunday expressed deep concerns striking Tehran on the United States’ President-elect Donald Trump rolling back from the internationally-brokered Iran nuclear deal. Dehghan made a loud warning that the caused unease brings about direct threats to pea
Maiduguri, Nigeria – In a horrific turn of events, two girl suicide bombers killed at least three people and wounded 17 at a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Sunday, a spokesman for state emergency agency NEMA, Sani Datti, told Reuters. The two young girls, approximately seve
Aden- The coup militias’ establishment of a parallel government in Sanaa, Yemen is a clear terminus handed over to all U.N. efforts of conjuring up a political solution for the war-torn country, a Yemeni prominent politician said. The coup’s separatist aspirations have made a strong drawback in the
