Brussels-The fight against ISIS is a main topic on the agenda of discussions of NATO defense ministers who are holding a two-day meeting in Brussels. Alliance head Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that NATO will contribute its support for the U.S.-led coalition battling ISIS in Syria and Iraq through
The dollar has returned to highs it last reached nine months ago. The drivers of this increase are similar to those that caused the currency to surge earlier this year. Yet, this time, the impact on financial markets has been quite different. And if this persists, the implications for Federal Reserv
London – Yemeni leadership had rejected any suggestions or discussions that disagree with the peace references represented by the Gulf initiative and its execution mechanism, as well as the results of the national dialogue and U.N. resolutions including Resolution 2216. Yemen’s President Abd-R
Beirut-Preparations are underway to welcome at Baabda Palace Lebanon’s new president who will certainly be Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun after a more than two-year vacuum at the country’s top post. Aoun will most likely be elected during a parliament session scheduled for Monday. Spea
Riyadh–Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said that Saudi Arabia has started a great change in economic policy to respond to low oil prices. She added that the Saudis have started a fiscal adjustment, with expenditures coming down and revenues increasing.
Washington – Everyone knows that elections around the world are manipulated by money and interests, and that the spending capacity of any candidate is the main factor that leads his electoral campaign toward victory. The U.S. presidential elections significantly depend on the candidate’s chari
Washington–U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and his British counterpart Michael Fallon announced on Wednesday that the battle to liberate the ISIS-held Syrian city of Raqqa would be launched in the coming weeks. Carter, who arrived in Brussels on Wednesday to attend the meeting of NATO Minist
Washington-The United States has said that it was “troubled” by Iran’s 18-year sentence of an American citizen as the State Department urged Tehran to cease arbitrary detentions. “We are troubled by reports that Robin or Reza Shahini, a person reported to be a U.S. citizen, may hav
Kabul-Militants linked to ISIS jihadists abducted and killed around 30 civilians, including children, in central Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, raising concerns about the group’s expanding presence beyond its eastern stronghold. The killings occurred late Tuesday north of Firoz Koh, th
Washington-During a fundraiser in California, U.S. President Barack Obama said that Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s victory is not enough, and that people should support her to win with a remarkable gap to address the correct message amid the opponent’s accusation of electoral fraud. Many Dem
Britain announced on Wednesday that it will be sending fighter jets to Romania in 2017 and that the United States made promises on deploying troops, tanks and artillery to Poland in NATO’s biggest military build-up on Russia’s borders since the Cold War. Germany, Canada and other NATO al
A faction of the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) cooperated with terror group ISIS this week in an attack on a police college that killed at least 63 people, the group’s spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday. The confirmation of a link between the two groups will stoke fears tha
Ankara urged the United Nations to play a more effective role in strengthening international solidarity in the fight against terrorism. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed hopes that the international organisation will play a leading part in strengthening international cooperation a
Microsoft Corp an groundbreaking announcement on Wednesday informing the over 400 million Windows’ 10 users worldwide that a free update to its operating system that lets users take photos and edit content in three dimensions, in a bid to raise excitement for its declining computing business.
The Coalition of Humanitarian Relief in Taiz announced that it continues to distribute medical aid that is funded by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre and the World Health Organization (WHO) amongst hospitals, and that this is being supervised by the Supreme Medical Committee in the
Taiz – Landmines planted by Houthi militias and ousted Ali Abdullah Saleh in Taiz Province, the third largest Yemeni city in south Capital Sana’a, have caused numerous civilian casualties regardless if they were women, children or elderly. These militias have not committed themselves to Mine B
Riyadh, Doha- Crown Prince Muhammed Bin Nayef, deputy premier and minister of interior expressed his condolences to Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on the death of late Emir Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al-Thani as he arrived to Doha on Tuesday in a short visit that only lasted few hours. Following the
Riyadh- The 15th GCC Housing Ministers committee kicked off on Tuesday under chairmanship of Housing Minister Majed bin Abdullah Al-Hogail. In his speech at the meeting, Al-Hogail stressed the importance of collaboration among the GCC states to overcome the impact of global economic crisis on Housin
Sixty one people were killed in an attack carried out by three armed militants wielding guns and explosives who stormed a police academy near the city of Quetta in southwestern Pakistan on Monday night. This attack was the deadliest in Pakistan this year after the Lahore attack that took place on th
Riyadh- The Gulf ministers of finance and governors of central banks will convene with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief in Riyadh Wednesday evening to discuss latest developments in the international economy and the effect on the region. This step will boost the Gulf positive movements to
