Oil prices went up in thin Easter holiday trading on Monday, adding to gains in recent weeks as a production freeze among major producers looms on the horizon. Brent crude futures were up 22 cents at $40.66 per barrel at 1250 GMT. Last week, the contract fell 76 cents, or nearly 2 percent, in its [&
London- The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) did not keep silent to the exclusive documents procured by Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper on their affiliation with the September 11 attacks, 2001. Fars News Agency, IRGC media outlet, stated that U.S. secret service officials have sent out grave accus
Palm Springs (California) – Hollywood’s infamous film director Quentin Tarantino told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that anti-racism is the common factor shared by his movies. Among Tarantino’s masterpieces were “Reservoir Dogs”, “Kill Bill” (the first and the second, although Tarantino accounts t
A military coalition led by Saudi Arabia fighting to restore legitimacy in Yemen announced in a statement on Monday it had completed a prisoner swap in Yemen, exchanging nine Saudi prisoners for 109 Yemeni nationals ahead of a planned truce and peace talks aimed at ending the year-long war with Hout
Baghdad- Sadrist movement Leader Muqtada al-Sadr moved the demonstrations inside the gates of the Green Zone, the International Zone located in Baghdad. After the period granted to the Iraqi PM Haidar al-Abadi – in which he was supposed to establish a technocratic administration- came to an end, esc
Pakistani authorities on Monday chased members of a Taliban faction which once declared loyalty to ISIS after the group claimed responsibility for a devastating Easter suicide bomb targeting Christian picnicking families that killed at least 70 people and wounded 340. The death toll in the attack on
Iraq’s parliament on Monday gave Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi until Thursday to present a new cabinet lineup in order to put a fight against bribery and corrupt practices, state television said. The Shiite National Iraqi Alliance pledged, in a statement issued on Monday, to cooperate with al
Riyadh- On Sunday, the Islamic military alliance revealed the four sections on counterterrorism and fighting extremism they will refer to. Media, ideology, funding and military operations are the four cornerstones to the framework employed by the nations belonging to the alliance. The nations said t
Riyadh- On Sunday, a Saudi-South African summit which headlined cooperation and counterterrorism was held in Riyadh. The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz held an official talks-session at Al-Yamamah Palace with the South African President Jacob Zuma. The Custodian of the T
Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders has chipped away at Hilary Clinton in all three states in Saturday’s elections, winning in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. He took at least 70% of the vote in all three states. Sanders won 73% of the vote in Washington against 27% for Mrs Clinton, AP r
President Barack Obama said the United States has intensified intelligence cooperation and will look into international efforts to fight ISIS militants after the Brussels attacks that took at least 31 lives during a nuclear summit with world leaders next week. An American husband and wife missing si
Had the engineers responsible for the New York dam not disconnected the water gates from the electronic control center for reasons of maintenance, a huge disaster would have taken place. On that day hackers affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) managed to bypass the electronic
Qatar’s Al Jazeera broadcasting network is set to cut about 500 employees or more than 10 percent of its staff worldwide, it announced on Sunday reflecting financial pressures on the tiny Gulf state due to low global prices for oil and natural gas. Most of the layoffs are expected in the broad
A top court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced 11 people to life imprisonment on Sunday over terrorism charges and raising money for al Qaeda and ISIS terrorist organization in Syria, state news agency WAM reported on Sunday. A total of 41 defendants were charged in October with “posses
Ramallah- The Hamas delegation arrives Sunday to Egypt carrying the organization’s approval of the demands presented by Egyptian intelligence during meetings earlier this month. Hamas spokesman Mahmoud al-Zahar said that the organization will positively respond to Egyptian requests, however, he did
Two drones attacks killed as many as eight men suspected of belonging to al Qaeda in southern Yemen on Saturday night, local residents said, as the U.S. campaign against the militant group continues amid a wider civil war in the country. The missiles targeted the fighters who had gathered in courtya
Fallujah, located roughly 69 kilometers west of Baghdad in Anbar, has its citizens subjected to horrific crimes with the Iraqi armed forces on one hand and ISIS-imposed barricade on the other. The city’s inhumane barricade has led to a serious lack of sustenance and medical supplements. Fallujah is
London- New leads surfacing on the case of conspiring for assassination of the late King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia reveal that the assets and liabilities owned by Mohammad al-Massari have been frozen. Al-Massari is the primary suspect charged for the lawsuit on conspiring for the assass
London- Coordinating advisor of Iranian police forces, Mohammad Javad Zada Kamnd, yesterday, announced preparing police units for future missions carried out outside Iranian borders, reported the Iran-based news agency Tasnim. Tasnim also is the media outlet employed by the Iranian Revolutionary Gua
“They lived as heroes and died as heroes”. This is an accurate description of the Saudi Arabian soldiers and those from the Gulf who were martyred on the southern border whilst defending their country or fighting in battle to support legitimacy in Yemen. When any Gulf citizen walks on this earth, th
