United Nations-Earlier this week, UNHCR sent 13 trucks carrying blankets, mattresses, and other badly needed emergency relief items to Taiz governorate in the highlands of the country’s southwest. This was a breakthrough since it was the first time a UNHCR convoy made it through all the way fr
Khobar- Qatar sent invitations for a meeting to be held in April 17 for oil producing countries, as well as to other big producers, that will take place in Doha. “The goal of the meeting of oil producing countries is to fix production at the rate of January in order to limit growth of global [&helli
London- An Iran-based humanitarian rights agency published a report on Iranian authorities detaining over 70 Sunni activists for allegations on political crimes and compromising homeland security. The report reveals that activists are being held in Gohardasht Prison, located west of Tehran. Accordin
Riyadh-Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman attended on Wednesday evening the prize distribution ceremony of King Faisal International Prize at Prince Sultan Grand Hall of Al Faisaliah Hotel in Riyadh. Upon HRH’s arrival, the King was received by Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, Emir of Makkah and
Cairo- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi met with the newly assigned cabinet led by PM Sherif Ismail, on March 23rd, after they performed the oath of office. Presidency spokesperson Alaa Youssef clarified that President el-Sisi has expressed appreciation of the previously serving parliament me
Brussels- Brussels disclosed the identity of the three suicide bombers in the airport and the subway; they are the Bakraoui brothers and Najem Alchraoui. Raids, arrests and forensic analysis are some of the tools investigators are using to get to the bottom of who was behind the attacks in Brussels,
Riyadh- After the U.N. special envoy to Yemen announced the Houthis acceptance of implementing resolution 2216 – which stipulates ceasefire, abandoning arms and application of the Gulf initiative and national negotiated agreements- Yemenis across the Sadaa governorate were overwhelmingly relieved. I
London – With weaker commodities prices and confrontational comments from another Fed official adding pressure on the broader stock market, European equities slipped for a fourth straight session on Thursday. A chorus of officials accompanied by St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, aimed at
ALMATY- It is not likey for Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s daughter, Dariga, to become a member of parliament in spite of running on the list of his Nur Otan party, as revealed by a document on Thursday, which opens the door widely to raising questions on the succession in Central Asi
In two contradicting statements, Britain stands at the edge of whether leaving EU could be advantageous or not. For instance, the head of M16 foreign intelligence service, Sir Richard Dearlove, says Britain could be on safer grounds if it voted to leave the European Union. The latter supported his v
After Europe’s foreign policy chief attended unpredictably in Geneva in an attempt to strengthen peace talks, U.S U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will press President Putin over a political transition for Syria on Thursday. From one side, the current truce is not at its peak of strength and
There isn’t a decisive winner or loser in the Syrian crisis which has become out of control and transnational. In a world that is supposed to be governed by norms and international laws, this weakness and failure has pushed the superpowers to what we see them doing today – negotiating a “non -soluti
Belgium’s chief prosecutor named two brothers on Wednesday as ISIS suicide bombers who perpetrated the Brussels attacks killing at least 31 people but said another key suspect was on the run. Tuesday’s most deadly attacks in Brussels, a city that is home to the European Union and NATO se
Despite a nearly month-old US-Russia engineered ceasefire agreement, aid deliveries to besieged areas of Syria remain hard to make, said a Red Cross spokesman on Wednesday, calling for more regular access to those in need of help. Since the start of the cessation of hostilities agreement, the United
Riyadh-Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received at Al-Yamamah Palace on Tuesday the Georgian Parliament Speaker David Usupashvili and his accompanying delegation. During the meeting, they discussed bilateral relations and aspects of parliamentary cooperation betwe
Washington-The presidential race shifts west on Tuesday, with voters in both parties deciding in Arizona and Utah, and Idaho Democrats holding caucuses. As voters chose between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in Utah, Arizona and Idaho Tuesday night, Sanders was taking his campaign to California.
Turkish armed forces said on Wednesday that the military carried out air strikes on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq and killed 26 militants in southeast Turkey. Violence in Turkey has increasingly flared since a ceasefire with the Kurds broke down last July. Tuesday’s ai
London- Two days after Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei launched an initiative dubbed “resistive economy”, at the Iranian new year, deputy joint chief of staff of the armed forces Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, rushed to support Khamenei’s campaign saying that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
Baghdad- After announcing a 25- bulleted plan to “rescue” Iraq, Leader of the Sadrist Movement Muqtada al-Sadr declared, on Tuesday, assembling a thorough cabinet for parliament to vote on. However, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi hastily rejected al-Sadr’s proposition. After al-Sadr convening,
Beirut- Lebanese Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk said that security gaps in Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport are dangerous and grave and may be, according to Western reports, similar to those that were in the Sharm el-Sheikh Airport and led to the explosion of the Russian plane. Machnou
