A solar-powered Swiss-made airplane midway through a historic bid to circle the globe completed the tenth leg of its journey on Monday, landing in suburban Arizona after a daylong flight from California. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies
The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan discussed fraternal relations, ways of enhancing them and regional and international issues of common concern with King Abdullah II of Jordan during talks held yesterday evening in the
Israeli police are refusing to release footage that shows Maram Ismail, a 23-year- old Palestinian mother, and her 16-year-old brother Ibrahim Taha being killed on Wednesday, at the Qalandia checkpoint outside Jerusalem. The police are claiming that Ismail and Taha were trying to stab Israelis. This
Riyadh-King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid has provided relief assistance worth SR1.6 billion to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni citizens on the first anniversary of the establishment of the center. Also, more than 4,000 injured Yemenis received treatment in Saudi, Jordanian and
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday talks were closer to extending a Syrian truce to Aleppo with ‘several proposals’ being discussed. Kerry highlighted the intensified violence divided northern city has witnessed in recent weeks, which led to torpedoing peace talks. Kerry was in Geneva
Those following the ‘Syrian Uprising’ and its repercussions during the last five years have been torn between two positions: the first, giving international stances – especially, Russia’s – the benefit of the doubt based on the assumption that regardless of the strength of its alliance with a certai
At the fifth anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama said that he hopes the terror mastermind understood in his final moments that the ‘American people hadn’t forgotten’ and wanted revenge for the atrocities of September 11, 2001. Obama spoke to CNN’s Peter Bergen about t
Three bombs went off in and around Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people, including Shi’ite Muslim worshippers conducting an annual pilgrimage inside the capital, police and medical sources said. The largest blast resulted from an explosives-laden car parked in the Saydiya district of
While the Syrian city of Aleppo witnessed a fragile calm yesterday after nine days of incessant shelling, Russian sources revealed that urgent Russian – American talks are taking place to include the city, which is situated in the north of Syria, in the proposed temporary ceasefire in rural Da
Riyadh- The 29-year-old Oqab al-Otaibi’s joy in establishing many cells and training terrorists in Saudi Arabia to kill citizens and security men in different areas of the country was disturbed as he was uncovered and arrested by security forces during a successful security operation east Bisha. One
Baghdad-The Iraqi government decided on Sunday to hire Peshmerga forces in order to protect the Green Zone after the Iraqi forces failed in securing the zone with a political crisis in Iraq heading towards a dangerous detour. An Iraqi source told Asharq Al-Awsat that the government was planning to c
The Yemeni government suspended its participation in peace talks to end the country’s civil war on Sunday after the Houthi movement and its armed allies seized a military base north of the capital Sanaa, two members of the official delegation to the talks said. U.N. envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ah
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz held official talks at the Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh yesterday with the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. They discussed bilateral relations between the two countries and regional issues. In a speech that he deliver
Oil prices slipped on Monday as the increasing production in the Middle East overshadowed a decline in the U.S. output and a weakening dollar, while Morgan Stanley warned that an emerging gasoline glut could also spill back into crude markets. Brent was trading at $46.90 per barrel at 0643 GMT, down
In an interview with the French Le Monde newspaper, the leader of Tunisia’s Muslim Brotherhood Ennahda party Rachid Ghannouchi announced that the path of the party has been transformed and said that “We are leaving political Islam and entering democratic Islam. We are Muslim democrats wh
The Turkish military stated that shelling by Turkish artillery and drones which were launched from southern Turkey struck ISIS targets in Syria on Sunday, killing 34 militants. Turkish howitzers and multiple rocket launchers first hit ISIS targets about 12 km (seven miles) south of the border, then
U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday took aim at Democrats and Republicans alike in his final appearance headlining the star-studded White House correspondents’ dinner. He performed his brand of light-hearted, yet pointed comedy, and saved his sharpest barbs for Republican presidential fron
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) announced in its flag policy released on Friday that the flags of Palestine and ISIS will be banned from 2016’s Eurovision Song Contest. The audience will also be banned from waving flags from other disputed political entities including Crimea, Nagorno-Kar
Khobar- Ever since Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz announced the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, speculations did not stop as to how Saudi Aramco, the Kingdom’s national petroleum and natural gas company, would become after being offered at the stock market and transformed into an
Moscow- Russia, yesterday, stepped up its defense bolstering the Syrian regime by excusing the butchering committed by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s administration in Aleppo. As the largest city in Syria bleeds out, Russia’s deputy minister of foreign affairs Gennady M. Gatilov, in an int
