Iran has successfully tested a precision-guided medium-range ballistic missile, a military official said on Monday, as Tehran continues to bolster what it insists is a purely defensive arsenal in the latest in a spate of tests following the implementation of the nuclear deal with world powers. The I
Madrid- Three Spanish freelance journalists held captive in Syria last year returned to Madrid on Sunday in apparent good health as Spanish authorities remained mum on the circumstances of their release. But Qatar’s news agency said on Saturday that Doha helped Antonio Pampliega, Jose Manuel Lopez a
A tentative deal has been struck to end a days-long mutiny in the central Syrian prison of Hama by hundreds of mostly political detainees, rights groups and activists in touch with inmates said on Monday. They said the deal brokered late on Sunday would end the strike of nearly 800 prisoners, which
Beirut-Lebanon’s Information Minister Ramzi Jreij hoped that the municipal elections that kicked off on Sunday would contribute to the rotation of power and lead to presidential polls. Jreij told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper on Monday that “Lebanon’s presidential elections are linked to regional circum
Tripoli- Scores of leaders and recruits of extremist militias, belonging to Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, have fled the Sinai Peninsula – located east of Egypt- crossing the border and entering Libya. Over the last three months, terrorists had looked for sanctuary from the Egyptian army stranglehold. Extrem
Beirut, Bekaa-The first round of Lebanon’s municipal elections was held on Sunday in the first such polls organized by the Interior Ministry in six years. Interior Minister Nuhad al-Mashnouq oversaw the polls held in the capital Beirut and the eastern Bekaa Valley from the central operations room at
Bogota- Post Tehran’s break from sanctions, “monitoring Colombian imports and sponsoring economic benefits” is the slogan being used to headline the anticipated visit of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) delegation to Colombia this May. Latin media outlets circulated reports conce
WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton the Democratic front-runner will visit on Monday the Loudoun County in Virginia in fight for further votes, where suburban women are a state-changing audience for Clinton who is looking forward to use Trump’s opposing statements about women, immigrants and ot
JERUSALEM- During an unusual public rebuke that took place on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized Major-General Yair Golan over words he said in a speech on Wednesday where on the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, Golan evoked a dark time in the history of the Jewish
According to a royal decree announced on May 7, 2016, Khaled al-Faleh, previously health minister, who takes the enlarged portfolio of energy, industry and mineral resources, has replaced Saudi Arabia’s long-serving oil minister Ali al-Naimi, as part of a major government overhaul. In sequence
DAVAO – Rodrigo Duterte, a presidential candidate in the Philippines who has been mayor of Davao City on Mindanao for two decades, where support for executing criminals earned him the nicknames “Duterte Harry” and “The Punisher. Thus, 71 Rodrigo Duterte, after 22 years as its crime
LONDON- Britain’s Prince Harry, the fourth prince in line to the throne, condemned what he called an “incessant need” of the media to dig into his private and personal life, where he stated and made it clear that he is ready to put a lot of effort and work very hard to guard the sp
HAMA- Hama Central Prison, the official civilian detention center, have witnessed many protests by prisoners since 2013, where the Pro-Governmental Forces detained so far about 762 person from different governorates. According to SNHR, this is the 3rd protest by detainees in Hama Central prison agai
London- Britain celebrates on May 8th the 90th of the most prominent public figure, who was elected by television viewers as Britain’s greatest living icon. Sir David Attenborough had successfully changed the face of nature and animal discovery programs, so that they are reintroduced and in constant
Beirut- The Lebanese governorates of Beirut and Bekaa Valley are holding municipal elections on Sunday. The polls are a true challenge for the political and security authorities, given that the last municipal elections took place six years ago. Beirut, capital city of Lebanon and the electoral battl
London- Well-informed Iranian sources exposed a recent massacre taking down over 50 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members belonging to the Quds Force division. The Iranian soldiers were reportedly killed in Aleppo during the Khan Tooman battles over the last few days. Quds Force headquart
Riyadh- On Saturday the 8th of May, and in line with the Kingdom’s 2030 vision, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz issued 42 royal decrees which addressed the restructuring of the council of ministers, the amendment of five ministries, the merger of one ministry, the relief
LUBUMBASHI- Moise Katumbi, the multi-millionaire former governor and prominent Democratic Republic of Congo opposition leader and presidential candidate, has been summoned to appear before a prosecutor on Monday upon accusations of hiring foreign mercenaries, according to his lawyer, King Kasongo Mu
This case comes through a time of increased attention in Texas on child abuse and neglect, particularly of those in the care of CPS, noting that the between 2009 and 2014, the Austin American-Statesman reviewed nearly 800 child abuse deaths. Across the street from the townhouse at 8105 Chipping in S
It is hard to believe that there are features of a revolution in Iraq against corruption, nepotism and the sectarian quota system. It is also difficult to believe that what is happening is a reformist movement, even if the occupiers of parliament and the Green Zone in Baghdad chanted against Iran. W
