The EU has appealed to both the United States and Russia to work with the rest of the international community to support Syria in order to create the right conditions to re-start peace talks to resolve the conflict in the country. The EU made the appeal at a same time as the Deputy Special Envoy [&h
Italian police made eight arrests on Friday based on suspicions of people smuggling and forging documents. The police said that leader of the gang of eight had sworn loyalty to ISIS. The group of eight, made up exclusively of non-Italians, used fake contracts and payslips provided by a complicit tex
The United Nations’ top official for human rights has criticized Iran for hanging up 20 people this week. A statement Friday by High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said there were “serious doubts about the fairness of the trials, respect for due process and oth
Cairo- Despite plunging oil rates, a main source for the Kingdom’s revenue, Saudi consumers displayed considerable and consistent confidence in their economy which was further proved stable in the second quarter of 2016. Also, consumers across the United Arab Emirates and Egypt have shown a notable
Hope for a new solution to the Yemeni conflict and an end to the war was short lived when the United Nations launched its project for peace which was approved by the legitimate government. Hope quickly evaporated when the former President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s team and the Houthis rejected the projec
Below is the letter that the Saudi Ambassador to the UK Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud wrote to the editor of The Economist regarding an article that it published on the 30th of July entitled “Worse than the Russians”: Saudi Arabia and Yemen Curiously, your article on Saudi Arabia’s military involvement
FIFA’s ethics committee on Friday cleared president Gianni Infantino of ethics violations after investigating him over a series of corruption scandals. “After conducting both preliminary and formal investigation proceedings, the investigatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee h
The carnival capital of Rio de Janeiro will host a glittering Olympics opening ceremony party on Friday, hoping to draw a line under a turbulent seven-year build-up dogged by recession, drugs scandals, crime and infrastructure stumbles. The iconic Maracana Stadium will host a pulsating gathering for
Attackers wearing military uniforms shot dead at least 13 people and wounded 15 on Friday in a busy market in a restive area of northeast India. The attack was blamed by the authorities on a regional separatist group. The gunmen fired indiscriminately and threw hand grenades at the crowded weekly ma
London-Iran had recently admitted to the grave losses suffered by its deployed units due to military operations in Syria’s Aleppo rocketing. Officials have announced at least five Iranian soldiers dead, who were lost in the latest battle in southwestern Aleppo. The statement of the officials said th
BREMEN, Germany — Believing he was answering a holy call, Harry Sarfo left his home in the working-class city of Bremen last year and drove for four straight days to reach the territory controlled by the ISIS in Syria. He barely had time to settle in before members of the ISIS secret service, wearin
Amman-U.N. agencies have announced the first delivery since June of desperately-needed food and hygiene supplies to around 75,000 Syrians trapped on the border with Jordan. The announcement came on Thursday in a joint statement by the heads of the World Food Program, the United Nations High Commissi
Tunis-The official designation of Youssef Al-Chahed to form Tunisia’s unity government has sparked a wave of conflicting reactions among local political parties. Two parties announced their withdrawal from negotiations aimed at forming a national unity cabinet, in protest against Chahed’s appointmen
Aden-Southern Aden’s Security Director Brigadier General Shalal Shaya revealed that Yemeni security taskforces have identified all members of the sleeper terror cell which have staged a series of assassinations. The terrorists had taken down a UAE officer working for the Emirati Red Crescent, senior
If he knows only two things, a ruler is successful: the first is knowing when to act and the second is knowing when to do nothing. The aphorism is mentioned in the Persian classical text Marzban Nameh, one of the books popular in the Muslim world since the medieval times and known in Arabic as [&hel
Baghdad – An Iraqi investigative judiciary commission imposed a travel ban on the speaker of parliament, two lawmakers and several other people in connection with corruption allegations. A Judiciary spokesman, Abdelsattar Bayraqdar, said on Thursday that the investigative judiciary committee was for
Bamako- Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir has recently kicked off the second part of his African tour, which will be seeing a number of states. Jubeir had arrived on Wednesday in the Malian capital Bamako, which is wedged between two Arab states, Algeria and Mauritania. He was received by Mali&#
Riyadh – An independent assessment team, which was formed in January to look into reports of Saudi-led coalition’s war violations during its “Decisive Storm” in Yemen, announced on Thursday the results of its probe into eight separate cases during a news conference held in the Saudi capital. The Joi
Beirut, London-A U.N. official confirmed on Thursday he had “hope” for a breakthrough in negotiations to restart peace talks at the end of August, despite ongoing battles in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Meanwhile, Syrian opposition factions have launched what they said was the “fourth stage” of their
Washington- Nicholas Young, the first U.S. policeman to be arrested on charges of supporting ISIS, had traveled to Libya in 2011 and had been with rebels attempting to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, according to documents received by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Young travelled to Libya
