U.N.’s special envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed called on parties partaking at the peace consultations underway in Kuwait to take full-on and decisive decisions as to bolster and guarantee intentions for resolving the Yemeni crisis, WAM reported. Addressing partakers at a session of the rece
As a series of terror attacks ravage Europe in mass and causing panic falsely in the name of Islam, in the poor Nice suburb of Ariane, many Muslims feel their community is being unfairly blamed for the Bastille Day attack that killed 84 people, and fear discrimination and social divisions will grow
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed on Monday that the Russian Ministry of Sport oversaw doping and the manipulation of athlete’s analytical test results and sample swapping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. WADA’s independent commission report, led by Canadian law professor and sports la
Britain’s top equity index touched an 11-month closing high on Monday, boosted by a surge in shares of ARM Holdings after Japan’s SoftBank Group agreed to buy the chip designer in a $32 billion cash deal. ARM, whose processor and graphics technology is used by tech giants like Apple and
Suspected Islamist militants gunned down on Monday at least four policemen and one civilian in Kazakhstan’s financial capital Almaty, security and hospital sources said. The incident echoes similar scenes of bloodshed in another Kazakh city just a month earlier. The officers were killed in gun
British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday in Berlin. They will discuss Britain’s strategy to leave the EU and the refugee crisis in Turkey, according to German government spokesman Steffen Seibert. “Political developments in Turkey, the refugee q
Baghdad-Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri has called on blocs to form a committee to amend the Iraqi constitution. The Iraqi parliament held a session on Sunday, July 17 chaired by Jabouri and attended by 185 members of parliament. During the session, Jabouri called on blocs to nominate memb
Brussels-The French Nice terror attack which killed 84 people and injured 202, came after information was received on ISIS recruits escaping Syrian terrain and having set towards carrying out missions in Europe, especially France and Belgium. The terror cell that carried out attacks in Paris and Bru
Riyadh- The Saudi minister of energy and industry,Eng.Khaled Al-Falih, said that the Saudi petroleum policy is stable and balanced. This adopted policy aims to maintain the markets’ stability, protect the producers and consumers’ interests and fulfill the market‘s petroleum needs. “In the past two y
Ankara- The chief military adviser to the President of Turkey Recep Erdogan, Ali Yazici, was arrested on charges of involvement in an attempted coup. Col. Yazici is one of the most senior military officers to be targeted in a government purge of the military following Friday’s failed coup atte
Paris-Investigations showed that Nice terrorist attack, adopted by ISIS, was not abrupt; as a matter of fact Mohammed Bouhlel, carefully planned for it. Thursday’s attack left 84 killed and dozens injured, some are still struggling for life. While the security bodies detained two more arrestees, inf
Two suicide bombers tried on Monday to ram vehicles laden with explosives through two Yemeni military checkpoints near the government-held southern city of Mukalla, which was recently recaptured from al-Qaeda, killing at least 10 people, the army and medics said. No one immediately claimed responsib
Yerevan-An armed group stormed a police station in Yerevan and took seven hostages calling for the release of a political leader who was arrested two months ago for gun possession. The Armenian National Security Service denied any coup attempt. Earlier, an opposing politician hinted that an armed re
Athens-Greek authorities returned Turkish Black Hawk with eight crew members that landed at Alexandroupolis airport. The helicopter was accompanied by another Turkish helicopter. Men on board the helicopter requested political asylum in Greece after a failed coup attempt last Friday, but Turkey dema
Beirut – Several large explosions from unknown origin struck large military and weapon storage facilities in Safira area south of Aleppo. News regarding the explosions conflicted. While the regime claimed it was a technical error, opposition sources said that it is likely the doing of a defector sol
Beirut-Syrian Opposition forces line up in preparation to launch the attack which would free supply routes to Aleppo clogged by regime forces to salvage besieged civilians inside. Bashar al-Assad’s regime on Sunday had tightened its grip around opposition-held eastern Aleppo neighborhoods, which for
London, Aden- Yemen’s Houthi-led insurgency strangling the war-torn country’s economy, forced counteractive measures to be taken by the legitimate government. A basket of procedures concerning fiscal transactions which inhibit the insurgency’s ability to compromise the state Central Bank in Sanaa ha
Algiers, Rabat-Algeria announced on Sunday an agreement reached with Morocco to promote security cooperation in facing terrorism and exchanging information on extremists and activists in fundamentalist groups, in particular ISIS. Moroccan Delegate to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation N
Irbil, London-During his visit to Kermanshah, the largest city in Iranian Kurdistan, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was received yesterday with an angry welcome from residents, according to sources from the province. A Kurdish activist from Kermanshah told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, on condition o
Cairo, Riyadh-Yemen’s government and Houthi insurgents resumed peace talks in Kuwait on Sunday, following new conditions and pledges put forward by U.N. Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who withdrew an earlier proposal to form a unity government and expressed his commitment to
