U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has held separate phone calls with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci to urge them to resume settlement negotiations, the White House said. Anastasiades canceled scheduled peace talks and cut short a visit to Turkey on Tuesday
Jeddah-Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdul Aziz, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, and Minister of Interior of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan Gen. Meles Torganbayev, have signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement between the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Rep
London-Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has stressed the importance of confronting Iran’s expansionist policies in the region by resorting to the U.S. to strengthen the military capabilities of Gulf countries. Khalilzad told Asharq Al-Awsat in an interview that Iraqi S
The Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said that Saudi Arabia, led by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman Abdulaziz, takes a considerable interest in the affairs of Syrian refugees and stressed that Syrians enjoy the same rights to health care, education and employment in Saudi Arab
B’Tselem, a leading Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, said on Wednesday it would no longer refer complaints of abuse carried out by Israeli soldiers to Israeli military courts because the system was biased and set up to whitewash cases. The group, which was found
London, Seoul- North Korea, the communist state, used women in a TV show in order to urge men to quit smoking. In the 40-minute public health program called “The Extra Quality Favorite Item Threatening Life,” smokers are warned of the side-effects of indulging in the activity, according to what Yonh
London- Iran’s new Assembly of Experts has chosen Ahmed Jannati, who is very close to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to serve as the body’s speaker for two years. Jannati was backed by 51 members of the 88-seat body, beating two other conservatives, Tehran prayer leader Ayato
Brussels-Details of the last few hours before bombing Brussels’ Airport on the 22nd of March have begun to emerge based on confessions of one of the involved in the attacks, who is known as the “man in the hat”, Mohamed Abrini. Abrini, who chose not to blow himself up, confirmed that the two extremi
Madrid- Portuguese attacker Cristiano Ronaldo, evermore infamous Real Madrid football club player, reassured loving fans that he will be fit and prepared to take on the Champions League final kicking off next Saturday. Ronaldo was involved in a training ground collision, with Kiko Casilla after Dani
Jeddah- Arab and foreigner diplomats hailed the great role played by Saudi Arabia concerning Yemeni peace talks- underway in Kuwait- and on reaching a comprehensive peaceful solution which reflects justly upon the people of Yemen. Saudi diplomacy played a pivotal function over the past few days in a
The Lebanese are surely entitled to celebrate exercising one form of “democracy” provided to them by the municipal and mayoral elections. Of course they are, given that foreign dictates have for almost two years prevented the election of a new president; and that they have almost forgotten that thei
London- Iran decided to provide fixed financial support to the Palestinian Jihad Islamic Movement, has visited Tehran in April, Palestinian sources close to the movement stated. The PIJ delegation was headed by its Secretary General Ramadan Shalah and included his assistants Ziad Nakhleh and militar
Riyadh – Sudanese official revealed that Sudan has allocated over one million acres for Saudi agricultural investment in Sudan designed to conform with Saudi Vision 2030 comprising 18 recommendations to invest in the country. He revealed that Sudan’s agricultural investment has a 40% growth. Sudanes
The Afghan Taliban have named a deputy to former leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour as their new leader, a spokesman said in a statement on Wednesday, the group’s first official confirmation that Mansour was killed in a U.S. drone strike last week. The newly appointed successor is Mullah Haibatullah
“We have to take a hard look at our role in the war in Syria,” says General Mohsen Kazemaini who commands the Islamic Revolutionary Guard’s forces in Tehran. “We have entered the war to keep our own enemies away from our borders.” What is significant in Gen. Kazemaini’s statement, made last Tuesday,
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz received princes, scholars and groups of citizens who came to greet him at the Peace Palace yesterday. The reception was attended by Prince Abdullah bin Turki bin Abdulaziz bin Turki and Prince Khalid Al-Faisal who is the Governor of th
Cairo – Muslim Council of Elders (MCE) said yesterday that the east has sunk in blood swamps. Meanwhile, Grand Imam of al-Azhar Mosque, Sheikh Ahmad el-Tayeb met with French President François Hollande at Elysee Palace on Tuesday, where both parties discussed the situation in France and stressed on
Beirut- Former Lebanese President Michel Suleiman had departed presidency leaving the post the way he received it, empty. In, 2008 Suleiman had risen to presidency, after it being vacant for months. Stepping down in 2014, Suleiman left the seat with no successor for the reason that local parties hav
Iran has changed its mind and decided to sign an agreement laying out arrangements for its citizens to perform this year’s Hajj pilgrimage. The agreement ends the controversy that was caused by the refusal of Iranian Hajj affairs officials to sign a protocol with Saudi Arabia under the pretext that
It is an argument never appeased nor settled, and perhaps it would take mankind long before breaking free from this everlasting controversy. Press on one side of the scale and social media weighing up the other; as if those two mediums were created to remain counterparts, forever parallel and never
