London – “I know I’m not a showy politician,” newly appointed British Prime Minister Theresa May said, “I don’t tour the television studios. I don’t gossip about people over lunch. I don’t go drinking in parliament’s bars. I don’t often wear my h
Washington – CIA director John Brennan said that recent attacks in Saudi Arabia bore the hallmarks of ISIS. He confirmed that the organization is a serious threat to Saudi Arabia. Earlier this month, suicide attacks struck three cities across Saudi Arabia killing four security officers; no organizat
Jeddah – The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz received at Al-Salam Palace on Wednesday Ambassador of the United States of America Joseph W. Westphal. During the meeting, the two officials reviewed bilateral relations between the two countries and discussed a number o
London – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani threatened to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action announced in Vienna last year, if the United States failed to meet its commitments. During a ministerial meeting held on Wednesday, Rouhani said that Tehran could quickly restart uranium enri
Cairo – U.N. envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed arrived yesterday to Sanaa in a new attempt to save U.N. efforts for reaching peace in Yemen, which are translated by a second round of talks between Yemeni warring parties expected in Kuwait tomorrow. However, none of the participating delegations h
Ankara Beirut -Turkey gave the first clear signal it would return its relations with Syria to the prosperous phase, before the start of the Syrian revolution against Bashar Assad’s regime in March 2011. Turkish prime minister, Binali Yildirim, announced in a clear statement broadcasted live on
Making a case that they violate Beijing’s commitments to the World Trade Organization and give an unfair advantage to Chinese manufacturers, the United States challenged China’s export duties on nine key metals and minerals on Wednesday. The move came with an Obama administration eager t
Worldwide online sales outlet, Amazon.com Inc, recently revealed that customers placed 60 percent more orders worldwide in its second “Prime Day” sale despite early glitches, further shaping the event’s position as to become an annual shopping festival for online shoppers. The internatio
An internal Israeli police report admitted that Israeli border guards deliberately provoke conflict with Palestinian residents of occupied East Jerusalem. Sometimes their motives are political and seek retaliation and, in other cases, they seek entertainment. A lawyer from the Association for Civil
South Sudan’s vice president has officially withdrawn alongside his troops to outside of Juba but is not planning for war, his spokesman said on Wednesday, as a ceasefire that ended heavy fighting with the president’s forces entered its third day. Forces loyal to longtime rivals Vice Pre
Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Wednesday that his country aims to develop “good relations” with Syria and Iraq. Yildirim’s speech, broadcast live on television, suggests a U-turn by the Turkish government. Diplomatic relations between Turkey and Syria were severed following the star
The US Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive in the Russian capital Moscow on Thursday evening for a two-day visit during which he will hold talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. The talks will focus primarily on the Syrian crisis and this was confirmed by the Russian Foreign Ministr
French diplomatic missions in Turkey’s two main cities have been closed until further notice, the embassy in Ankara said on Wednesday. It also cancelled planned events to mark France’s July 14 National Day due to security concerns. The French consulate general in Istanbul had been due to
Theresa May will step into power on Wednesday, replacing British Prime Minister David Cameron who resigned after the EU Referendum result in June. Cameron is expected to hand in his resignation to the Queen after his last Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons. May, 59, won the Conservat
London- Many villages in Hasakah countryside were liberated from ISIS control; yet this did not save civilians from the regime rage. The regime prepared a list of hundreds of teachers to be detained after being accused of attending lessons given by ISIS lecturers in the past two years. Sources in Ha
New York-The listing Nadia Krivickova and Michael Krivicka had been waiting for popped up early last September: a pristine 2,500-square-foot 1924 colonial with a child-friendly backyard in the lower Westchester County village of Pelham Manor. Then living in an apartment in Manhattan, the couple (she
When the Turkish Prime Minister promised to grant Syrian refugees citizenship, each person interpreted this in their own way. His Turkish opponents opposed the decision and considered it an attempt to strengthen his position in the next election and gain the Syrian vote. They launched a huge campaig
Khobar- It seems that regional oil companies will soon be taken over with a raging fever for privatization. Soon after Saudi Arabia announced intentions on offering a low but effective five percent of the Saudi oil giant Aramco to public stocks, Kuwait followed announcing a similar plan to publicly
The United States will open its doors to a target of 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year as promised by President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry announced. Washington has received harsh criticism from activists for taking little action to settle those fleeing the conflict, while Oba
Baghdad – Iraqis woke up on Monday to chaos and traffic on all three bridges that lead to Baghdad. With a temperature reaching 48 degrees, citizens were trapped inside their cars in the streets unable to get to work or to return home. The reason behind all of that was military parade training in one
