Baghdad-Nineveh’s Governor Nofal al-Akoub is facing a wide political and popular outraged campaign due to his statements that were considered offensive for Mosul’s women. Al-Akoub stated that “sexual jihad” in Mosul, which was occupied by ISIS, led to the birth of many children with unknown fathers.
Jeddah- Aden- Several lawmakers have been exhausting all efforts in order to escape Sana’a, parliamentary sources told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper. The representatives had been threatened with death should they not attend the parliamentary session scheduled for Saturday and called on by ousted former
Ankara, Beirut- Kurdish and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have successfully seized full control over Manbij, ejecting all ISIS remnants. The Syrian city had been under the hardline group’s dominance since 2014. Post becoming ISIS-free, the main arms supply route, connecting each of Iraq, Turk
Tuz Khurmatu-The front line south of this bleak and dusty town looks much as it did two years ago, when ISIS was the enemy and controlled a village less than a mile away. Now, however, the Kurdish peshmerga fighters holed up behind sandbags and barbed wire are peering across the line at Shi’ite mili
Riyadh-A Yemeni expatriate who killed Police Corporal Muthhil al-Selouly in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday by running him over with his car and then stabbing him had pledged allegiance to ISIS, Saudi security agencies said. Omar Bahaysami, a 20-year-old Yemeni, ran over al-Selouly, as he emerged from a m
Manila-The Philippines military has said that it was taking seriously what it believed was a call by ISIS for an attack on the Miss Universe contest being held in the country next year. The military said on Friday a recent bomb-making video posted on social media, apparently by ISIS militants in the
Responding to claims on the Saudi-led Arab Coalition Forces having committed humanitarian violations while mounting Decisive Storm and the Hope Restoration military operations, Joint Incidents Assessment Team (JIAT), an independent group, was established to assess the accuracy of posed claims on occ
Sudan reiterated its demand for the US to remove its name from the list of state sponsors of terrorism whilst saying that the era of envoys must come to an end in Sudan, and that relations with the United States should be diplomatic like relations with all other nations. In a statement to the Sudane
The United Nations cautioned against surfacing of “demonizing” attitudes harbored against refugees on Friday, after a global poll revealed that 60 percent of people thought extremists were garnering affection and acquiring asylum as refugees. Around 40 percent also said they wanted their
Thirty days away from parliamentary elections, President Vladimir Putin elected to replace his long-time ally Sergei Ivanov as Kremlin chief of staff, appointing a low-profile former diplomat in his place on Friday. Anton Vaino, 44, was assigned to the important post which involves drafting laws for
The chairman of the Syrian Network for Human Rights Fadel Abdul Ghani told Asharq Al-Awsat that the network’s investigators “have verified that a helicopter belonging to the regime dropped a barrel bomb containing toxic gasses on the Zubdiya neighbourhood in Aleppo on Wednesday night. The bomb was d
It was difficult for some to accept President Recep Tayyib Erdogan shaking his opponent President Vladimir Putin’s hand and Turkey’s reconciliation with Russia. Ankara’s signing of a deal to normalise relations with Israel has led to much criticism. The matter is only difficult for those who do not
Regional and Western spotlight was highly focused on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin’s meeting which lasted for four hours, after which Erdogan came out referring to Putin by “my dear friend”. What remains are echoed speculations on whether the Turki
Riyadh- Saudi share market has become an investment destination that attracts foreign capitals, following the kingdom’sdecision to relax imposed conditions and restrictions on foreign financial institutions that are willing to invest in the local share market. These updates coincide with the Board o
Turkey said Friday it has received “positive signals” from the United States over its requests to extradite Pennsylvania-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, who reiterated that he would only hand himself over to Turkish authorities if an independent international investigative body first fou
Irbil- Heavy Iranian Revolutionary Guard artillery intensely shelled borderline villages belonging to the Iraqi Kurdistan region on Thursday. Lasting for six hours, the shelling resulted in a grave loss among civilians of which most were forced to escape their homes to safer zones. “In the ear
Saudi Arabia said that three women and their seven children, including a one-year-old, had been prevented from travelling to Syria to join the conflict areas. The women, who are sisters, were stopped in Beirut after one of their husbands informed the Saudi authorities that his wife was heading to Sy
Tel Aviv, Cairo-A large-scale investigation has been launched over allegations that Iran is supplying Ansar Bait al-Maqdis with weapons in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Israeli and Egyptian sources said. A reliable Israeli source stated that information published in Israel Defense Magazine about discover
Anyone following the debate in the US media and political circles these days might form the impression that a supposedly golden age is about to end and that something absolutely disastrous is about to be unleashed. The elites are obviously in a bad mood. The reason for this bad mood is the current p
Washington – The Pentagon released an unclassified report detailing the suspected militant background of more than one hundred detainees currently at, or recently released from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. The report, which is expected to incite more debate over shutting the prison do
