Aden – Yemenis in the southern and eastern districts of the country are suffering of liquidity crisis which adds more problems to their already troubled life. Because of the economic situation, many Yemenis were not able to celebrate Eid al-Adha on Monday or buy new clothes for their children. Engin
UEFA overwhelmingly elected Aleksander Ceferin to succeed Michel Platini as president on Wednesday, replacing one of the greats of soccer with a Slovenian lawyer, who is little known outside his country, to lead the European game. The 48-year-old Ceferin will complete Platini’s four-year presi
Moscow-Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov called on the United States to reveal the details of the bilateral agreement on Syria, adding that such a deal should be made official by translating it into an international resolution. Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry agreed to a p
The Champions League begins in earnest this week – unless you are one of the many who believe the real entertainment only commences after Christmas with the knockout stage – and with it the chance to compare English standards with those being set by the rest of Europe. This is a popular pastime, des
Indonesian security forces Wednesday captured a senior figure of an ISIS-linked militant network -once headed by the country’s most wanted extremist- in a joint operation with the military, police said. Muhammad Basri, from the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen, was caught in Poso district, on rugg
Cairo-A recent economic report regarding the financial situation in Yemen revealed relative increase in prices of basic commodities in June compared to prices in May. The report studies the prices and availability of basic food commodities in target governorates- Sana’a, Taiz, Aden, Hodeida, Ma’rib
Cairo-The Libyan National Army (LNA) has shrugged off calls by the U.S. and five other western governments to withdraw from the oil crescent region, which LNA seized two days ago. The new developments compelled the head of Libya’s U.N.-backed unity government, Fayez al-Sarraj, to call for urge
Five years after gaining its independence, South Sudan is a basket case. It is wracked by civil war. Its leaders have looted the treasury. Many of its people are on the brink of starvation. Now some of the most high-profile champions of the young nation’s independence are calling on the U.S. g
Beirut-Russia on Tuesday deployed fighters along the Castello road to secure the delivery of humanitarian aid to areas that fall under the control of opposition factions in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Meanwhile, Syrian regime forces have withdrawn their fighters from the same area, considere
Mina-The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, has reaffirmed his country’s rejection of the exploitation of the Hajj season to serve political agendas or intensify ideological differences. “Exaggeration in religion is abhorred. When exaggeration enters the body
Ankara-Turkey on Tuesday gave the first official sign it has started implementing a plan to establish a buffer zone in northern Syria. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli announced that his country would start building new residential cities in Syrian areas recently liberated from ISIS by
Washington-The Pentagon has confirmed that a U.S. air strike killed ISIS leader and spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani in northern Syria end of August. “The strike near Al Bab, Syria, removes from the battlefield ISIS’s chief propagandist, recruiter and architect of external terrorist oper
Jafariya-In villages perched high on a mountain in western Yemen, residents are a safe distance from a conflict raging through most of the country, but they endure a hardscrabble existence little changed from hundreds of years ago. Long used to a livelihood without electricity or running water, they
Geneva-Countries are increasingly refusing to cooperate with the U.N. on human rights, U.N. rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein warned Tuesday, voicing alarm at situations in dozens of states, including Syria, Iran and Venezuela. “States may shut my office out, but they will not shut us u
Aden-Arab Coalition jets raided on Tuesday several positions in Sana’a, including parts of the country’s Alsonidar Group, located near the areal base north of the capital, which is a facility that rebel groups use to produce military equipment. Informed sources in Sana’a told Asharq Al-Awsat that si
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched a new naval ship in the port city of Bushehr, Iran, on Tuesday. The 55-metre-long naval ship is capable of transporting a helicopter and about 100 men, according to the website of state TV. U.S. officials say there have been more than 30 close encounters bet
New York – The 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) kicked off on Tuesday at the U.N. headquarters in New York. The U.N. General Assembly elected Peter Thomson, the permanent representative of Fiji, as the president of its 71st session. Denmark’s Mogens Lykketoft wa
Turkey’s Justice Ministry has made a formal request to the United States demanding the arrest of U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen on charges of orchestrating an attempted military coup on July 15, Turkish state-run news agency said on Tuesday. Justice Ministry officials told Anadolu the wri
What seemed out of the question had finally happened. The United States Congress passed a bill that would allow the families of victims of the Sep. 11 attacks to sue the government of Saudi Arabia for the losses they had suffered. One must keep in mind that Saudi Arabia had suffered al Qaeda’s terro
This time is different, or so U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov would have us believe. A new Russian-U.S. agreement to ensure a cessation of hostilities in Syria, indeed, goes further than previous efforts, but the lack of mutual trust between the negotiat
