Washington – U.S. President Barack Obama has described the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as the “most important single day” of his presidency. In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Peter Bergen on Monday night, Obama said: “Hopefully at that moment, he (bin Laden) under
A few days after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) demanded that mosques in Germany are monitored, the president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution revealed that the office already monitors around 90 mosques. The president of the Federa
ISIS militants killed on Tuesday a U.S. serviceman in northern Iraq after blasting through Kurdish defenses and attacking a town in the biggest offensive in the area for months, officials said. A U.S. defense official said the dead man was a Navy SEAL. The SEALs are considered to be among the most a
Washington- The candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States Bernie Sanders called the super delegates, who can change the results when the party officially appoints the candidate, at a time when the former U.S. Secretary of State’s victory is almost settled. After Clin
Tourism in South Africa is anticipating strong growth in 2016 after lifting some strict new visa rules that reduced the number of arrivals in the previous year, Minister Derek Hanekom said on Tuesday. South Africa last year loosened some of the visa rules it introduced in October 2014, dropping a re
Abu Dhabi-Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed the UAE delegation to the sixth session of the UAE-Qatari Higher Joint Committee. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al
After eight years of becoming an independent state, Kosovo was accepted as a member of UEFA on Tuesday, becoming the 55th member of European soccer’s governing body despite strong opposition from neighboring Serbia. Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia back in 2008. Twenty-eight of UEF
Cairo- The upcoming youth forum in Cairo will launch international and regional cloud campaigns addressing violence and terrorist organizations, especially those established in the name of religion, an Egyptian source said. The forum aims at covering all sides to counter-terrorism, and to be attende
Washington- The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spokesman Ryan Trapani, in the past few days, defended the agency’s tweeted details posted in commemoration of five years marking the takedown of al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden. Speaking to ABC- a U.S. based television broadcasting company-, T
The United Nations mediator on Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said on Tuesday that moribund peace talks on the conflict could be resumed if a faltering truce was extended to the northern city of Aleppo, something he and the Russian foreign minister said might happen within hours. An escalation of violen
Yemeni peace consultations in Kuwait ended two days ago due to the rebels continuously violating the truce and their control over the “Giants Brigade” in the governorate of Amran. However, informed sources revealed that the UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh, the ambassadors of the 18 countries sponsoring
Riyadh- Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior, received an official invitation from German Chancellor Angela Merkel to visit Germany. The invitation was handed over to the Crown Prince by Ambassador of Germany to Saudi Arabia Boris Ruge, who was recei
ANKARA – A parliamentary committee approved late on Monday a controversial bill that strips Turkish lawmakers of immunity from prosecution, paving the way for a law that members of the pro-Kurdish opposition say is designed to target them. Hours earlier, the committee erupted in chaos as a res
Beirut- The Syrian Army, on Tuesday, backing the Russian statement announced that the approach for a calmer state-of –affairs, the temporary truce, would be extended another 48 hours for the vicinity of Damascus. Sergei Kurylenko, head of the Russian coordination center in Syria, on Tuesday spoke of
Spain’s King Felipe signed a decree Tuesday dissolving parliament and setting a new legislative election for June 26 after MPs chosen in an inconclusive December vote failed to agree on the country’s next premier. The king signed the order in the presence of parliamentary speaker Patxi L
Riyadh- Ministers of Finance, Commerce, and Labor in Saudi Arabia will discuss at the Saudi Euromoney Conference 2016, which will be held on Tuesday in Riyadh, their plans within the framework of the Saudi 2030 Vision, methods of diversifying the economy along with reform procedures concerning vario
The US Secretary of State John Kerry ended a brief visit to Geneva yesterday during which he held several meetings and made telephone calls that focused on ways to reinstate the truce in Syria and include Aleppo in the ceasefire. Kerry met his Saudi and Jordanian counterparts Adel Al-Jubeir and Nass
Baghdad- Amidst the rising political crisis in Iraq, Sadrist movement leader Muqtada al-Sadr, a Shi’ite cleric, managed to throw his Green Zone protesting supporters off guard by heading on Tuesday secretly to Tehran. Iraqi sourced confirmed that al-Sadr had left the airport in Baghdad on Monday at
Brussels, Cologne – The Ministry of Justice in Belgium confirmed that it is arranging to grant permits for establishing a number of mosques, a measure taken in line with the governmental plan for confronting extremist ideology. The Muslim Executive of Belgium states that there are 64 Mosques l
A parliamentary committee approved late on Monday a controversial bill that strips Turkish lawmakers of immunity from prosecution, paving the way for a law that members of the pro-Kurdish opposition say is designed to target them. Hours earlier, the committee erupted in chaos as a result of a brawl
