A rural police station in southern Russia has come under attack in what is suspected to be a suicide bombing, reports said Monday. Three men attacked a police station in Russia’s Stavropol region in the north Caucasus on Monday including at least one suicide bomber, the Interior Ministry said.
Beirut- Lebanese authorities announced that Rafic Hariri Airport’s security apparatus in Beirut detained two Lebanese employees of a Beirut airport service company on Friday over contacts with “terrorist groups”. An official Lebanese source told Asharq Al-Awsat that the employees work for a private
ISIS militants took back a stronghold in Syria’s northern Aleppo countryside near the border with Turkey on Monday, four days after losing it to a grouping of fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The monitoring group reported that the ultra-hardline terrorist group captured
The militant cell behind bombings in Brussels had intended to launch a fresh strike in France again after carrying out the Paris attacks in November, but was forced to attack in the Belgian capital instead after being “surprised” by a quick-moving investigation, Belgian prosecutors said
Dubai’s Emaar Properties plans on Sunday unveiled plans to construct a new tower in the emirate to surpass the Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest building. Chairman Mohamed Alabbar told reporters on Sunday that the height of the tower “will probably be announced when we open the
Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential Democratic nominating contest in Wyoming on Saturday, marking another victory in his uphill battle for the party’s nomination. Both candidates are gearing up for a crucial matchup in New York. Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, has
Rammallah- Palestinian sources told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that the Hamas delegation has met with Egyptian intelligence last month in Cairo. The delegation spent around two weeks and had plans on visiting Iran alongside other countries. However, Tehran had put forth a condition should Hamas wish
Cairo-The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz has inaugurated the project of constructing an Islamic city for all foreign students. The Project resembles the greatest support granted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Al-Azhar Mosque in history. The residential dormitory is sa
Aden-Sunday midnight is when the anticipated ceasefire launch will take place in Yemen, as a part of implementing the U.N. agreement. The consensus has been reached as to start the next round of negotiations in Kuwait, which are to start on April 18. The pro-legitimacy governmental delegation had co
Khobar- According to approximations issued by the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institution (SWFI), the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) is to receive an approximate 106 billion dollars (398 billion Saudi Arabian Riyals) in return for selling a 5-percent-worth of Saudi Aramco stocks. The return on the sal
Cairo-In an official visit- the first of its kind- the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Kings Salman bin Abdulaziz honored the Al-Azhar Mosque with a visit during which he inspected the works on restoring the site. The mosque’s rebuild has been enabled by a fund granted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arab
A massive fire sparked by fireworks swept through a temple in India’s southern Kerala state on Sunday, killing at least 100 people and injuring more than 200, police say. Thousands of devotees gathered into the Puttingal Devi temple in the coastal district of Kollam for a fireworks display to
Fierce clashes erupted late on Saturday as Syrian government forces and their allies battled their opponents including al Qaeda fighters south of Aleppo. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported anti-Assad forces advancing and taking over two hilltops. The Britain-based monitoring group̵
In a statement released today by the Adviser to and Spokesman for the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Justice HE Sheikh Mansur Al-Qifari, he stated that the judiciary system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia applies the principles of Islamic Law which brought the most just judgments and most advanced laws to
Why now? This is the question that almost all experts have been asking since the latest sudden flare of hostilities between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh or Upper Qarabagh (Qarabagh Al-Ulya) last week. As usual, the answers given have been determined by the pol
London- Forty oriental inspired art pieces have been prepared this month, in London, for the orientalism themed art auction on April 19th. The Sotheby’s fine art auction will display the works of legends, such as David Roberts, John Frederick Lewis, Alberto Pasini and Jean Leon Gerome. Accordi
Beirut- Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper lawyer appealed last Friday against the judicial decision on freeing the seven arrested attackers, who had assaulted the newspaper’s Beirut offices. The retributive single judge, Wael Sadiq, has approved the requests of discharge presented by Hassan Bazzi, the assai
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin AbdulAziz announced the inauguration of a bridge project linking north western Saudi Arabia to the Sinai Peninsula at a historic Saudi – Egyptian summit in Cairo yesterday. The Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi named the structure “Ki
It only took 149 days for the Saudi-Egyptian Cooperation Council to take bilateral relationships between the two countries into a whole new level. The significance of strategic Saudi-Egyptian shared relationships and strengths since its establishment, has been revealed in Cairo yesterday, during the
BANGKOK, April 9 – Thai authorities have stepped up security measures following two ethnic Uighur men from China linked to “foreign terror groups” visited a holiday island, said a senior officer said on Saturday. There are suspicions and fears of a militant attack in Southeast Asia
