Turkey on Saturday holds an intense series of events to celebrate the first anniversary of the failed attempted coup, showcasing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s grip on power on the heels of a new purge of civil servants. The authorities have declared July 15 an annual national holiday of &#
Taiz- The Ministry of Health in Yemen has said 297,438 suspected cases of cholera were recorded between April 27 and June 10, 2017. Spokesman for the ministry Mohammed al-Saadi said that some statements on vaccinations and the spread of the epidemic are exaggerated and false. “The level of hospitali
Washington, Kandahar- The head of ISIS in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed, was killed in a strike on the group’s headquarters in Kunar province earlier this week, the Pentagon said on Friday. Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said in a statement that other members of the terrorist group were also killed
Berlin on Saturday confirmed reports that two women who were killed after being stabbed in an Egyptian beach resort were German nationals. “We can now sadly confirm that two German tourists died in the attack at Hurghada,” a foreign ministry statement said. “According to what we k
Ain Issa- In four years, Mohammad al-Hassan only heard his son’s voice once: when the young Syrian soldier called a radio show to send regards to his family trapped in ISIS’ bastion of Raqqa. The 62-year-old and his wife Nazira, who never left their home town in northern Syria during years of
Jeddah- Amid speculations about additional escalations and a long estrangement in the Qatari crisis, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arrives in Jeddah on Saturday as part of his Gulf tour that follows similar trips made by his US, British and German counterparts in the past weeks. Le Dria
Beirut- The Lebanese are now preparing forby-elections to fill two vacant seats in Parliament. The polls will be the first under the new electoral law, which was adopted last month. It should be noted that the different political factions have agreed on the new voting system after dozens of rounds o
Kuwait plans to raise oil-production capacity to as much as 4.75 million barrels a day after 2030 as the OPEC member builds refineries in Asia to process more of its crude, the head of state-run Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd. said. The Gulf country, which currently can pump up to 3.15 million b
Cairo, Tel Aviv- Three Arab gunmen shot dead two Israeli policemen and were then killed by security forces in Jerusalem’s Old City. The five victims are Arab-Israelis. The two dead policemen are: Hail Stawi, 30, and Kaamil Snaan, 22. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directed the police to handle th
London- Yemeni Information Minister Muammar Al-Iryani downplayed rumors on differences among members of the country’s legitimate government, saying they were part of the Houthi insurgents’ war propaganda. “This is all part of the media war led by the insurgents,” Iryani told Asharq Al-Awsat newspape
Tel Aviv, Beirut- Israel uncovered on Friday that Iran has lately leased from the Assad regime an airport in central Syria, hinting it would target it. Israeli military sources asserted that Tel Aviv would not allow Tehran to lease an airport in Syria, and would also confront current Syrian-Iranian
The US Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to block a federal judge’s ruling that prevented President Donald Trump’s travel ban from being applied to grandparents of US citizens and refugees already being processed by resettlement agencies. In a court filing, the administratio
Cairo- Terror struck a security checkpoint in Giza province on Friday, killing five policemen, as Egyptian security and medical sources said that two German tourists were stabbed to death and four others were wounded at two separate beach resorts in the city of Hurghada near the Red Sea. The sources
Mosul- Abdelrazaq Salman has lost everything but clings onto one last hope: finding the bodies of his family members killed when his home was bombed in Mosul’s war-devastated Old City in northern Iraq. “I had a little supermarket. I had worked hard from the age of 10 to build my house,&#
Makkah- Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman offered funeral prayer for Prince Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at the Grand Mosque in Makkah after evening prayers on Friday. King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, were received by Prince K
Lebanon will coordinate refugee returns to Syria only with the United Nations and its specialized agencies, Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Friday, days after a number of refugees left for Syria under an agreement brokered by “Hezbollah.” “Recently, a debate on the return of Syrians has emerged.
Emmanuel Macron has completed a political revolution. The man swept out of nowhere, with no party behind him, and in a few short months, managed to secure the French presidency, then lead his new movement to a substantial legislative majority. Now he’s proposing to embark on another revolution by re
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud made a telephone call to US President Donald Trump, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Friday. During the call, the Monarch congratulated the US president on the quick defeat of ISIS in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, it said. Th
The last hours were significant, highly revealing and had long-term effects. From Hamburg we heard, for the first time, of US-Russian “common understanding” on Syria. From Baghdad came the good news about the “liberation” of Mosul, and from Lebanon we heard how eager those infatuated with Lebanon’s
More than a million sheep, goats and cows have been treated for parasites in Syria to help resurrect the country’s war-battered food production and shore up its female farmers, a UN agency said on Friday according to a Reuters report. Syria’s six-year conflict has caused widespread damag
