London – The 72-hours ceasefire ended in Yemen at exactly 11:59 PM Saturday, amid U.N. attempts to extend the ceasefire. International news agencies reported Houthi-run channel al-Masira admitting to Houthis violation of the ceasefire. The channel said that Houthis attacked Saudi sites in Najran and
Qayyara – U.S. soldiers deployed at Qayyara military base near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul put on protective masks on Saturday after the wind started to carry toxic smoke from nearby sulphur plant which ISIS set on fire. The precautionary measure was taken when the wind started to blow toxic sm
Beirut- Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi announced the “peaceful opposition” to combat electing Michel Aoun, head of the Free Patriotic Movement, as the president for Lebanon. Rifi stance was taken following Former Prime Minister Deputy Saad Hariri declaring support for Aon after two and a half years of
For the second day in a row, Houthi militias continue to violate the truce in Taiz by constantly shelling residential neighbourhoods with various types of weapons and attacking sites belonging to the Popular Resistance and the army on various fronts which has led to damage and human loss. Violent co
Forces of the Libyan Government of National Accord’s Presidential Council announced that they have made important progress in the Al-Imaraat Sittumiah area and have seized control of large areas in the Al-Imaraat area in the coastal city of Sirte from the extremist organisation ISIS. The media burea
ISIS militants set ablaze sulfur stocks at a factory south of Mosul, the U.S. military said Saturday. With noxious fumes brought by the wind, U.S. forces at Iraq’s Qayyara West airfield near Mosul were forced to wear protective masks as a precaution, U.S. military officials added. The Qayyara
The Jordanian cities of Amman, Irbid and Zarqa hosted, from 30 September to 21 October, the 5th edition of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup, the biennial international women’s youth football championship contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The wome
Jeddah-The International Air Transport Association (IATA) expects 7.2 billion passengers to travel in 2035, a near doubling of the 3.8 billion air travelers in 2016. “Runways, terminals, security and baggage systems, air traffic control, and a whole raft of other elements need to be expanded to be r
Berlin- Freedom activists and supporters for the Ahwaz cause held a mass demonstration against the oppressive Iran regime executions outside the German Parliament in Berlin on Friday. Many multicultural communities joined their call for freedom and human rights. Yaqoub Hor Al-Tostari wrote that prot
Donald Trump’s threat in the second presidential debate to appoint a special prosecutor to go after Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server is legally empty — but it’s genuinely dangerous nevertheless. Federal regulations give the appointment power to the attorney general, not the pre
Erbil-Security forces battled for a second day Saturday with ISIS terrorists who infiltrated Kirkuk in a raid that shook Iraq as it ramped up an offensive to retake Mosul. A day after the shock attack on the Kurdish-controlled city, extremist snipers and suspected suicide bombers were still at large
I am reading about the last days of Boris Yeltsin’s presidency and the early days of Vladimir Putin’s in Steven Lee Myers’ book “The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin”. I am looking for signs. Yeltsin kept his decision to resign a secret, even from his wife, and informed her of it [&hel
An envelope containing a white powdery substance was sent to one of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign offices in New York, causing an evacuation, though police initially ruled out any danger. The envelope was first delivered to the White House hopeful’s offices
Leroy Fer is casting his mind back to his Swansea City initiation ceremony during the club’s pre-season tour in the United States and carefully considering what mark out of 10 he would give himself for his rendition of Drake’s Controlla at the team hotel. “A solid eight,” says Fer, smiling. The foot
Ankara-The veteran leader of Turkey’s nationalist opposition, Devlet Bahceli, who has earned the moniker “Dr. No,” has appeared as a more consensual figure after the July coup attempt despite his efforts to complicate the country’s political process following the June 2015 election
Jizan, Riyadh- The U.N. special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed issued a statement on Friday announcing that the 72-hour ceasefire, scheduled to end on Saturday, has been extended. Yemen’s insurgency factions have violated the truce on several occasions and are expected to keep on doing so.
Footage broadcasting Mosul’s long-anticipated offensive shows Iraqi forces and thousands of military armored vehicles marching towards the ISIS de-facto capital in Iraq in hopes of ridding it of terror dominance. The Fall of Mosul happened between 4–10 June 2014, when ISIS terrorists defeated the Ir
London- Director of Foreign Affairs for Jamaat e Islami Pakistan Sheikh Abdul Ghaffar Aziz, in an interview with Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, described Saudi Arabia as the center of the Islamic world and a vital country in the region. On the sidelines of his participation in a conference on Jerusalem
Riyadh- Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received on Friday Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, at Al-Auja Palace in Riyadh, and discussed with him bilateral ties as well as the latest
Beirut-Russia’s extension of the truce in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo for another 24 hours has not yielded any results on the humanitarian level. There was no sign that civilians or rebels had left rebel-held east Aleppo although Moscow’s unilateral “humanitarian pause” was largel
