The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari directed threats at Saudi Arabia yesterday in response to Riyadh’s declaration that the Lebanese Hezbollah which is backed by Iran is a terrorist organisation. At the first Revolutionary Guards’ leaders meeting held
London-The UK Department for Education is facing extensive accusations because of what media and legal parties called “turning a blind eye” to Jewish strict illegal schools, where students are physically abused and are receiving only scripture instead of studying the national curriculum. An investig
Beirut- Legal prosecution in Lebanon, last Friday, received the lawsuit filed against assailants who attacked Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper Beirut offices. Internal Security Forces (ISF), on Friday, after concluding preliminary interrogations, took seven of those arrested into custody over breaking in a
Riyadh- The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz, on Tuesday, confirmed that adequately housing citizens of Saudi Arabia is a priority to his Highness. King Salman underscored Saudi Arabia’s consistent progress towards development, construction and accomplishing a balanced and
A year has passed since the Saudi-led Arab coalition launched a war in Yemen after the legitimate government was overthrown! The question “What is the result?” arises. Do we say that Sana’a was not liberated and that the coalition did not eradicate enemy forces? Or do we say that the coup and Iran&#
Syrian anti-Assad fighters have shot down a government warplane south of Aleppo and captured its pilot on Tuesday, a monitoring group said. The incident occurred as fighting renewed across swaths of the country threatening to upend a fragile truce. Syria’s military confirmed that a plane on a
Assailants shot dead a senior Saudi security officer west of the capital Riyadh on Tuesday, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by state media. ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack. Saudi state news agency SPA quoted an interior ministry spokesman as saying that t
Ramadi- With the growing fears of a humanitarian catastrophe in Fallujah and risks of mass death, which threatens more than 105 thousand besieged and starved citizen inside the city, government forces’ aerial and artillery bombardments continue over the crowded neighborhoods. Fallujah citizens, who
Two women in Vietnam Mosquitoes have been infected with the Zika virus, health authorities said on Tuesday. The younger of the patients is eight weeks pregnant, they added. The Zika virus, which is carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito and transmitted to humans, is linked in Brazil to thousands of s
In a statement to Asharq Al-Awsat, the Yemeni presidential adviser Yasin Makkawi said that the legitimate government is considering forming an “emergency government” a day after President Abd Rabbu Mansur Hadi appointed General Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar as the new vice president and Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr
London- While Iran denies the validity of reports indicating that it is filling the gap resulting from the Russian withdrawal from Syria, Iran’s Deputy Coordinator of the Iranian Army Ground Force, Brigadier General Ali Arasteh, has revealed that his country will send a top army unit to Syria, in wh
Eleven million confidential documents were leaked from one of the world’s most secretive companies, Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. Authorities across the globe have opened investigations into the activities of the world’s rich and powerful after the controversial documents showed p
The Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who is also the Second Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence revealed that Saudi Arabia is considering a package of new reforms that will double its non-oil revenues and raise at least $ 100 billion yearly by the year 2020. He also reveal
Sixteen Azeri servicemen have been killed in the clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces around the Armenian-backed breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region in the past two days, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. The clashes erupted on Friday night raising the death toll to 46. R
Nigeria’s army said it has arrested Khalid al-Barnawi, leader of an al-Qaeda linked militant group Ansaru which is a splinter faction of Boko Haram that has been accused of kidnapping and killing Westerners, a military spokesman said on Monday. Military spokesman Brigadier General Rabe Abubaka
A judge of the ethics committee responsible for rooting out corruption in soccer’s governing body FIFA has himself been placed under a preliminary investigation, the watchdog said on Sunday. The FIFA ethics prosecution chamber said Monday that it ”opened a preliminary investigation to re
Beirut-Fierce clashes resumed yesterday between regime forces and ISIS militants in Al-Qaryatayn town, located in the Homs Governorate. Regime forces undertaking two fronts, led violent battles with Syrian Opposition forces in Al-Eis town, located in south Aleppo. Regime forces entered Al-Eis yester
London- Leader of Sudan People’s Liberation Army, Malik Agar, confirmed that non-violence represents the core strategy of his movement. A peaceful approach highlights all approaches taken by the Sudanese opposition; however, moving against the government in Sudan is not “optional”. Agar confir
The Chinese government has long kept tight reins on both traditional and new media to avoid potential subversion of its authority. Its tactics often entail strict media controls using monitoring systems and firewalls, shuttering publications or websites, and jailing dissident journalists, bloggers,
Ahead of UN-backed peace talks, Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi appointed a new vice-president and prime minister on Sunday, pro-Hadi state media reported, sacking prime minister and vice-president Khaled Bahah in a major shake-up of senior officials. Hadi instated on Sunday General Ali Mohs
