Jeddah-Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz said Tuesday that the Kingdom’s security was at its highest levels and was getting stronger by the day. The Crown Prince visited two security officers and a citizen wounded in the string of explosions that rocked Saudi Arabia on Monday. In remarks
Geneva-The United Nations has pointed its finger at a Shi’ite militia backed by Iran that fought alongside Iraqi forces against ISIS, saying it may have kidnapped 900 civilians and executed at least 50, some by beheadings and torture. The initial phase of Iraq’s vast offensive to retake the ci
London-The latest attack on Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp, home to Palestinian refugees and internally displaced Syrians, is the latest example in the Syria conflict of the inhumane disregard for life, particularly that of children and infrastructure on which they depend, UNICEF and UNRWA have said in a
Scientists at Europe’s physics research center CERN are preparing to disclose on the biggest trove of data yet from Europe’s largest particle accelerator, Large Hadron Collider (LHC), three years after they confirmed the existence of the mysterious Higgs boson- an elementary particle in the St
A few days after the deadliest of many car bombings in Baghdad since the 2003, Iraq’s interior minister submitted his official resignation on Tuesday and said that a deputy would take over his responsibilities. Mohammed Ghabban made the announcement at a media conference in Baghdad, a video of
Increasing numbers of Syrian refugees in the Middle East are falling into deeper debt and facing grinding poverty, partly as a result of exhausting their savings with shortages of essential aid worsening their plight, U.N. agencies and local governments said on Tuesday. Some 70 percent of refugees i
The U.N. human rights chief on Tuesday described the suicide bombing outside the Prophet Mohammad’s Mosque in the Saudi city of Medina as an attack on Islam itself. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and a member of the Jordanian royal family, delivered hi
Saudi petrochemicals producers may go down the mergers and acquisitions route to secure scale and raw materials as part of an efficiency drive to adjust their businesses to lower oil prices. Driven by cheap gas feedstock provided by the Saudi government, the petchem industry has significantly grown
Brussels-NATO summit in Warsaw will announce the achievement of NATO’s missile defense system initial level of operational readiness, said Monday NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. “We intend to announce the release of a missile defense system on the initial level of readiness,” he said at a p
Turkey jailed 17 suspects on Tuesday, mostly foreigners, over last week’s suicide bombing at Istanbul’s main airport, the deadliest of several attacks to strike Turkey’s biggest city this year. President Tayyip Erdogan described the attack as the work of ISIS militants from the ex-Soviet
After a five year journey from Earth to Jupiter, NASA’S Juno spacecraft made it with a do-or-die engine burn that looped it into orbit to probe the origins of the biggest planet in the solar system and how it impacted the rise of life on Earth, the U.S. space agency said. It fired its main [&h
Fallujah- As the Fallujah campaign continues to secure its advance, freeing it from ISIS hold, marks and slogans are left scattered all across main streets, announcing who will truly be holding the reigns of the city post its liberation. A highway overpass in central Fallujah, from which ISIS milita
Aden – Yemeni academics revealed that Aden University campus was robbed and the university facilities were destroyed by militias. President of Aden University Hussein Basalamah told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that the Iranian scheme failed in Yemen. He added that the fact that the education process n
Baghdad–Iraqi government has declared three days of national mourning after a huge bomb in Karrada neighborhood of Baghdad killed 165 people and injured 225 others last Sunday. The terrorist attack is considered one of the deadliest to target Iraq and happened one week after Iraqi Security Forces (I
Casablanca-Morocco Foreign indebtedness rose 5.6% during the first quarter of 2016, according to the Ministry of Finance. Total indebtedness reached USD32 billion end of March compared to USD 30.4 billion end of 2015. Since 2011, the foreign indebtedness rose 45.5% and now represents 32.3% of the GD
Bangladesh is one of the world’s most highly populated countries. Ranking the world’s seventh, with a population of 160 million, Bangladesh is also considered one of the most densely populated Muslim nations, ranking third after Indonesia and Pakistan. Four main political parties exist in Bangladesh
Jeddah, Medina-Saudi Arabia was subjected to three suicide bombing attempts on Monday, one of which targeted security men responsible for guarding the Prophets Mosque in Medina, which is considered the second Holy Mosque in the Kingdom. Saudi authorities said that four security officers were killed
Brussel-Belgian Security Intelligence Body replied to Paris critics on concealing information about Salah Abdeslam name being mentioned on the list of those influenced by the extremist intellect. Evidence in this regards was poor, claimed the security intelligence body. Salah Abdeslam name was liste
Riyadh- Arab Coalition leadership announced that the Saudi royal air defense forces intercepted a ballistic missile Monday morning. The trajectory was launched from Yemeni grounds targeting Saudi Arabian territory. The missile was taken down without any substantial damage inflicted; the launchpad wa
Makkah – During the last ten days of Ramadan month, hotels in Makkah were fully booked as the number of persons visiting the holy city for Umrah reached over two million persons from all over the world. Hotel manager of Conrad Makkah Hotel Ismail Siri told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that the nu
