Riyadh–Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz received at Yamamah palace on Thursday United States Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew and the accompanying delegation currently on a visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During the reception, the two emphasized the depth of the histor
Beirut–Lebanese Minister of Economy, Dr. Alain Hakim, said that the economic situation in Lebanon has witnessed some deterioration due to the political crisis that hampers the work of the government’s financial and economic institutions. In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper on Thursday, Ha
Ankara, Beirut, Paris-Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Thursday that a military operation led by Euphrates Shield forces will target the city of Manbij, lately liberated by the Syrian Democratic Forces from ISIS. Turkey will also target the stronghold of the terrorist organizatio
Riyadh-Deputy Director of the White House’s National Economic Council, Adewale Adeyemo, said his country was keen on supporting Saudi Arabia in the implementation of Vision 2030 and the National Transformation Program. “We are here to deepen and strengthen the bilateral relations as a follow-up to t
Beirut-The 7th edition of the Ibero-American Film Festival kicks off in Beirut on Friday. The event that is organized by the Spanish embassy in Lebanon in cooperation with the Cervantes Cultural Institute and other embassies like those of Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Mexico, Chili, and Venezuela, wi
Riyadh–U.S. Secretary of Treasury Jacob Lew said the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) could have “serious implications” for U.S. – Gulf interests. In remarks on Thursday at the opening of the first joint meeting of the Cooperation Committee of the GCC Ministers of Finance and
Egypt’s Appeals Court, the highest judicial authority in Egypt, yesterday upheld the life sentences that were given to the spiritual leader of the now outlawed Muslim Brotherhood Mohammed Badie and 36 others after their appeals were rejected. The verdict issued by the Appeals Court is final and may
More than 26 civilians were killed yesterday in air raids carried out by warplanes that are most likely to belong to the Syrian regime on the village of Hass in the southern countryside of Idlib. Moaz Al-Shami, a media activist who visited the site of the massacre immediately after the air raids, sa
Riyadh- Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received Director General of International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde at Al-Yamamah Palace on Wednesday. During the meeting, they discussed aspects of cooperation between the Kingdom and the International Monetary Fund
Riyadh, Doha-Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense offered his sincere condolences for Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and Prince of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on the death of Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani,
The United States said Thursday that up to 900 ISIS group militants have been killed in the offensive to seize control again over Iraq’s Mosul, as camps around the city filled with fleeing civilians. Iraqis who fled their homes expressed joy at escaping ISIS’s brutal rule as they were gi
Manama – A team of experts at International Institution for Strategic Studies (IISS) published a report about Missile-Defense Cooperation in the Gulf which contributes to the ongoing policy debate on Middle Eastern collective security. Toby Dodge, consulting Senior Fellow at the IISS, said at the la
Baghdad- An official survey for the Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration revealed on Wednesday that more than 9,000 civilians from Nineveh have been displaced since the beginning of military operations to liberate Mosul. Chairman of the Committee on Displacement and Migration in the Iraqi Pa
London – Bahrain King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa met with British Prime Minister Theresa May in London on Wednesday to discuss bilateral relations and explore means to promote historic ties between the two countries. Bahrain News Agency reported that the meeting also saw discussions over a number of r
International organisations including the World Health Organization (WHO) have warned about cases of cholera in Yemen and we cannot ignore these warnings or underestimate them. Yemen is experiencing the worst crisis in half a century. A UNICEF representative in Yemen said that the international orga
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey’s military offensive in northern Syria will target the town of Manbij, captured from ISIS by Syrian Kurdish-led forces in August, and the jihadists’ stronghold of Raqqa. Syrian rebels, backed by Turkish warplanes, tanks and arti
Taiz-A senior Houthi military operative, who goes by the nom de guerre of Abu Majed, was killed in clashes with popular resistance fighters on Wednesday in west Yemen’s Taiz city, the Yemeni army announced. Resistance media center said that Abu Majed, a senior Houthi military operative, has been kil
Riyadh – Venezuela confirmed that the upcoming OPEC meeting will pave the way for a new step in the oil market. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC are expected to agree on freezing or decreasing oil production to rebalance the prices during the coming stage. Joseba
Forty five military pilots were detained Thursday and 29 who had previously been detained were formally arrested as part of the probe into the group blamed for the failed coup on July 15, Turkey’s state-run news agency said. The chief public prosecutor’s office in the central Anatolian c
Some movies are so bad they kill more than themselves. Sometimes, they kill a series. As George Clooney wryly (and rightly) observed after Batman & Robin: “I think we might have killed the franchise.” Occasionally, a movie is such a disaster it kills an entire genre. The monstrous excesses of Cl
