Turkey has reiterated that it will never waive its goals in the north of Syria to secure its border and clear it from terrorist organizations like ISIS and members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK); it has also insisted on participating in the battle of Mosul to liberate it from the extrem
The United Nations Security Council has confirmed the former Portuguese Prime Minister and the former head of the UN High Commission for Refugees, António Guterres, as the next UN Secretary General. He will serve from the 1st of January 2017 to the 31st of December 2021. His appointment was warmly w
The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that everyone understands that defeating ISIS in a short time is possible through ground operations along the lines of operation Euphrates Shield, through which Turkey supports Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters in northern Syria, and called for effect
Doctors working in Sudan’s government hospitals are on strike for the second day running. They are demanding better working environments, the provision of proper equipment and protection from repeated attacks on them in hospitals and health centres. The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD) c
Morocco’s moderate Islamist Party of Justice and Development has won parliamentary elections, according to official results released Saturday, despite frustration with its handling of the economy in its five years leading the government. The Interior Ministry said that the PJD won 125 of the 3
Riyadh- Saudi Arabia is expected to change the investment map in the region during the coming months since the local market is anticipated to be the first destination of foreign capitals especially in several vital sectors that are considered the core of investments. Major sectors that are expected
London- U.N. Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said that an integrated plan for Yemeni reconciliation will be launched during the next two weeks. The U.N. Special Envoy said that the Houthis in Yemen have initially approved a 72-hour ceasefire that might be extended. Oman News Agency
London- Over 900 people have been killed by Hurricane Matthew and thousands have been uprooted, as the natural disaster plowed through Haiti on Friday. Just off the southeast U.S. coast, the hurricane caused major flooding and power outages in the region. The number of deaths in Haiti, the poorest c
London- Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano revealed that the implementation of a landmark nuclear agreement between Iran and the world powers is still fragile, warning that small mistakes can have grave consequences. Iran and six major powers, including th
Beirut- In his latest interview with Asharq Al awsat newspaper, Lebanon’s Samir Geagea, executive chairman of the Lebanese Forces (LF), the second largest Christian political party in the country, hoped that the two-year presidential vacancy would be brought to an end. What is more is that the LF hi
Although Syria’s tragedy is too painful to be associated with humor, the suffering that both Moscow and Washington are inflicting on the Syrian people reminds us of a kind of a ‘black comedy’ joke. It goes like this: A barber was very keen on his son inheriting his ‘salon’, but the young man wasn’t
Washington- The Pentagon is considering carrying out limited attacks in Syria that don’t drag U.S. President Barack Obama to an embarrassing situation, along with several U.S. security bodies holding meetings since weeks to figure out a solution to the rising crisis in Aleppo amid potential U.S. att
Wayne Rooney has accused Sam Allardyce of allowing him to be “battered” and being responsible for what the England captain considers some of the more unjust criticism he can remember during his 13 years with the national team. Rooney, who revealed his dissatisfaction about not getting the midfield r
Two suicide bombers militants believed to be preparing a car bomb attack detonated themselves up after refusing to surrender to police during an operation in the outskirts of the capital Ankara Saturday, a senior official said. No one else was killed or hurt. “Police called on them to surrende
London- Ankara has warned of sectarian consequences from Mosul operation, objecting to involvement of Shi’ite militias. Shi’ite militias having a role in an operation to drive ISIS out of the Iraqi city will not bring peace, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a news conference on
Almost a third of the United Nations workers are women. With gender equality listing high on U.N. MDP (Millennium Development Goals) its quite contradictory to see that the higher you go, the fewer you will find females filling posts in the world body. The U.N. has had eight male leaders in its past
The Iran-Based United Nations human rights investigator called on Friday for the immediate release of three Iranians with dual nationality whose health after imprisonment had become a matter of concern. Ahmed Shaheed, U.N. special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, highlighted the
Houthi rebels are involved in the bombing and demolition of many regular schools in the Al-Ghayl district of the Al-Jawf governorate, Yemen. Religious Shi’i seminaries that teach the Iranian curriculum are being constructed on the ruins of the schools. The governor of Al-Jawf Amin Al-Ukaymi told Ash
Three Syrian refugee children were threatened with a knife by a group of young people in eastern Germany on Thursday. Police reported that the youth were chanting right-wing slogans after the incident. A spokeswoman for the police could not confirm the nationality of the attacker, adding that their
Militants belonging to the Somali Al-Shabaab movement attacked a residential compound in the north-eastern Kenyan town of Mandera that is less than a kilometre away from the Somali border. Six people were killed in the attack which is the latest in a series carried out by the Al-Shabaab movement. “W
