Washington-The Pentagon refused on Monday to comment on the charges that the brother of a man, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike alongside the Taliban’s slain chief Mullah Akthar Mansour, has pressed against U.S. officials. A Pentagon source only said that the U.S. government does not reco
Kuwait-The Kuwaiti government signed on Monday a 4.3 billion-dollar-deal with a Turkish company to build a new terminal at Kuwait International Airport. Kuwait’s Public Works Minister Ali al-Omair signed the contract with Turkish firm Limak Construction. After signing the contract, al-Omair said tha
London-Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that Iran is involved in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Afghanistan to defend national interests. Rafsanjani explained during an interview with Aftab News that Iran cannot leave these countries easily, adding that continu
Washington-The Libertarian Party has announced that it picked Gary Johnson, the former Republican governor of New Mexico, as its nominee for the presidential elections that will take place next November. “I tell the truth, I am not a liar,” Johnson said at the party’s nominating co
The Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces intercepted on Monday evening a ballistic missile launched from Yemen towards Saudi territories, the command of the alliance to support legitimacy in Yemen announced. The Air Forces immediately destroyed the missile launch platform, which was located inside Yemeni
Kuwait-Kuwait’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death sentence handed down to the main convict in the June 2015 bombing of the Imam Sadiq mosque that killed 26 people and left 227 injured. The court confirmed the sentence of capital punishment passed on Abdulrahman Sabah Idan, known as Saud
Dakar-The special court in Senegal has sentenced former Chad dictator Hissene Habre to life in prison after finding him guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes during his 1982-1990 rule. After the announcement of the verdict on Monday, a defiant Habre raised his fist and shouted to his supp
Beirut-Lebanon’s security situation went back to the forefront after Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq revealed on Monday that security forces had thwarted three bombing plots by ISIS. Al-Mashnouq’s announcement came after security agencies issued reports on the arrest on the outskirts of Beirut
The UN envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed continued to hold meetings with the rebel (Houthi – Saleh) delegation in Kuwait yesterday. The UN envoy’s office said that the main issues discussed by Ould Cheikh with the delegation include “details and mechanisms for withdrawal, the handing ove
The brilliant Al-Ahram columnist Salah Montaser began his career in journalism in 1953 at the Akher Saa magazine that was bought by Mustafa and Ali Amin from Mohamed El-Tabii who continued to write the main article entitled “From Week to Week”. Mohamed Hassanein Heikal was made the magazine’s editor
Jeddah-Foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states held a meeting in Jeddah on Sunday under the chairmanship of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, chairman of the current rotatory 139th session, and in presence of the GCC Secretary General
Manama- An appeals court in Bahrain has upheld the life sentences as well as the citizenship revocation of five activists over allegations of spying for the Iranian National Guard and planning attacks in the country by training people to use weapons and explosives to destabilize the security of the
The chief peace negotiator of Syria’s mainstream opposition in the Geneva peace talks has resigned on Sunday amid no signs of progress in the U.N.- backed peace process that began earlier this year. Mohammed Alloush said he took this step because the international community is not “serio
New York- U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Stephen O’Brien said there was an urgent need for political action to bolster the ceasefire and end the suffering in Syria. However, he emphasized, “humanitarian access to the millions of people in need must n
Militants of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have killed five members of Turkey’s security forces in separate attacks in the last 24 hours, security sources reported on Monday. The military responded by conducting air strikes in northern Iraq where rebels are based. Near the eastern city of
Jeddah- Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman received at al-Salam palace in Jeddah on Sunday British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond. The meeting was attended by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz, deputy premier and interior minister; Minister of State and Cabinet’s Membe
Mass coral bleaching has killed the majority of the northern and central Great Barrier Reef, though corals to the south have escaped with little damage, Australian scientists said on Monday. The damage is part of a massive bleaching event that has been impacting reefs around the world for the past t
The Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who is also the Second Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence met the British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in Jeddah yesterday. During their meeting, they discussed areas of cooperation between the two countries, developments in the si
An Iraqi special forces commander announced on Monday that troops have started pushing into Fallujah as part of the ongoing operation to out ISIS, which continued its relentless campaign of bombings in and around Baghdad. Brig. Haider al-Obeidi with the elite counterterrorism troops said the push st
After much dithering, Iran has finally decided to deprive its citizens from performing the Hajj pilgrimage and continues to politicise the religious ritual. The Iranian Minister of Culture Ali Jannati announced that “After two rounds of negotiations during which a conclusion was not reached because
