Beirut- Intensive shelling and airstrikes clouting Aleppo and its outskirts seem to be racing the hands of time against efforts attempting to broker a ceasefire for the holy month of Ramadan. Aleppo operations’ room on Monday urged for practicing pressures against the Assad regime to reboot the truc
Strong winds and heavy rainfall were expected across the southeastern United States on Tuesday, even as the center of Tropical Storm Colin was moving into the Atlantic Ocean. A tropical storm warning was in effect from the Altamaha Sound Georgia to Oregon Inlet in North Carolina on Tuesday morning.
Hillary Clinton has reached the number of delegates required to clinch the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination, according to tallies by two U.S. media outlets. However, the campaign of her rival, Bernie Sanders, vowed to keep up the fight in a race that has exposed deep rifts between the left-wi
In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, the Foreign Minister of South Sudan Deng Alor Kuol said that his government is determined to resolve all outstanding issues with the Sudanese government and put the countries’ differences behind them at once. The minister is holding fast to his government’
Oil prices held close to their highest in seven months on Tuesday, propped up by the U.S. dollar skimming its lowest in nearly a month and by falling Nigerian oil output after a wave of attacks on infrastructure. Brent crude futures were up 17 cents on the day at $50.72 a barrel by 0840 GMT. [&helli
Cairo-Mayor of Sabratah Hussein al-Thawadi has welcomed the decision of the Prime Minister of Government of National Accord, Fayez al-Sarraj, to form a military operations room to fight ISIS in the city that lies 75 kilometers west of the Libyan capital. Thawadi described the decision as important a
Taiz- Jeddah- Thirty people were killed and injured including three families that were completely wiped out in a frenzied attack staged by insurgency in Taiz. Before dusk set, and those fasting could break their fast and quench their thirst, the ground was far soaked with blood. Yemenis drained out
Cologne-Member of Christian Democratic Party and interior minister for the state of Saarland Klaus Bouillon, who also acts as chairman of the group of all 16 state interior ministers, says terrorists are continuing to arrive to Germany as he estimated over hundred ISIS terrorists infiltrated Europe.
Former Wall Street executive Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s lead over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of an imprisoned former authoritarian leader, tightened to just 0.36 percentage points late on Monday. With a total of 95 percent of votes processed in Peru’s closest presidential election in at l
The United Nations decided to remove the Arab coalition from its blacklist that was included in the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s report on children and armed conflict yesterday evening. This came after Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United Nations Abdullah Al-Muallami and the ambassadors
Algiers-Algeria’s Chief of Staff Admiral Ahmed Gaid Saleh has urged officers and troops stationed in the country’s biggest military zone to go on high alert to avert a possible retaliation by extremist organizations to the killing of 60 of their members in ambushes carried out by the army in the pas
Paris-They are known as “Operation Sentinel,” the imposing soldiers in camouflage uniforms who patrol beneath the Eiffel Tower and outside the Louvre with FAMAS assault rifles. Together, they form a massive security operation of some 10,000 French soldiers deployed immediately after the attacks on t
Fallujah – Approximately 10,000 people have fled escalating violence in the Iraqi region of Anbar in the past ten days, according to a report issued by the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). Representatives from UNICEF and other international organizations, including the World Food P
Amman- Jordanian Government spokesman Mohammad Momani announced that national intelligence officers have arrested a suspect for the terrorist attack staged on Monday against Baqaa security offices. Five intelligence officers were killed in the attack. The office is located in Baqaa, situated 27 kilo
Jeddah-The Saudi Arabian Cabinet has approved a major plan to diversify the economy, during a session held at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah on Monday evening. The National Transformation Program (NTP) 2020, which falls within “Saudi Arabia’s vision 2030”, was approved after reviewing the report submitte
Mexico’s foreign minister defended her nation’s economic significance to the United States on Monday and condemned anti-migrant speech-making and what she described as “climate of intolerance” in its neighbor, a shy veiled critique of Donald Trump. Mexican Foreign Minister Cl
Tel Aviv- After weeks of perplexity, the Israeli Attorney General ordered a probe into investigation into the claim made by a French businessman against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he has received 1 million euros ($1,135,600) for his electoral campaign, a sum far above legal limit
Baghdad-The United States has referred violations committed against civilians in the Fallujah battle to the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. U.S. Ambassador to Baghdad Stuart Jones stressed, however, that reports about human rights violations in Fallujah have not been confirmed ye
Fallujah-Local council of Amreyyat Fallujah has announced the arrival of 600 civilians who had been detained by Popular Mobilization Forces militia (PMF) after they left Fallujah, west of Baghdad. Head of Amreyyat Falluja Council Shaker Isawi said that a number of Iraqi MPs and members of Anbar coun
Moscow- Russian media circulated on Monday several military statements confirming that the Russian air power had played a chief role in Assad’s regime advancing in the ISIS-run Raqqa, Syria. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reiterated his country’s readiness for staging collaborative joint ai
