Turkey’s air force bombed camps belonging to the PKK in northern Iraq early on Monday, the army said. The strike came hours after a suicide car-bombing in the capital targeting buses and people waiting at bus stops at the heart of Ankara heightened tensions with the Kurdish rebels. Also, the p
Riyadh-GCC’s Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Negotiations Abdul Aziz Hamad Aluwaisheg stressed that the GCC states are committed to reconstructing Yemen and that the legitimate Yemeni government has prioritized this project. He added that reconstructing Yemen is based on
Kuwait- The National Assembly of Kuwait, on Sunday, approved the claim presented for lifting the immunity of Kuwaiti Member of Parliament Abdul-Hamid Dashti. The request was based on the case on homeland security lawsuit issued against Dashti for incitement against Saudi Arabia. MP Ahmed Al-Qudaibi
Asharq Al-Awsat received information from security sources that the Ministry of Interior of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been able to cut off a strong link between ISIS fighters in Syria and terrorist agents in Saudi Arabia. The connection was compromised after Swielem Al-Ruwaili, an ISIS leader
The Lebanon-based Hezbollah’s latest recognition as a terrorist organization was at the League of Arab States (LAS) in Cairo, noting that the group was already outlined as a terrorist one at the Arab Interior Ministers Council in Tunis, Tunisia. Nonetheless, we have recognized the terrorist nature o
Tripoli- Capital city and largest city of Libya, Tripoli has become no short than a grazing land for militias, military arsenal, western intelligence agents, and some private security companies coming from countries like the U.S., Britain, France, and Italy. Security companies are managing to coexis
KINSHASA – Heart touching image of many others alike, is the story of Kevin Lusongo. Lusongo who is now 14, has been on the streets since he was 11. Sleeping on a piece of cardboard in an unlit parking lot in a poor neighborhood of Kinshasa, behind trucks he hopes can shield him from view, [&h
Tunis/Algiers – Dozens of Islamist militants, pertinent to the attack signal that came from the mosque, stormed through the Tunisian town of Ben Guerdan to hit army and police posts in street battles that lit the dawn sky with tracer bullets. Reassuring the residents that they were ISIS, and t
Beirut- The Syrian regime refused to negotiate the transition of authority only two days before the peace talk’s being appealed. The Syrian Opposition assumed that a statement has been made to foil any political process before it even begins. In Damascus, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said t
SEOUL – North Korea denied on Sunday that it carried out cyber-attacks against South Korean officials, claiming that such accusations were no more than slander campaigns conducted by the Seoul government, describing them as “fabrication”. South Korea’s spy agency stated to la
Cairo- Houthi and pro-Saleh (ousted Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh) were jumbled and in shock after their defeat in Taiz. The Insurgent militias had lost due to a swift unpredicted military action conducted by the National Army and Popular Resistance supported by the Saudi-led Arabian coalition
Riyadh- The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, arrived back to Riyadh on March 12, after his highness attended the maneuver of the North Thunder and its military parade, conducted by the Saudi Armed Forces and some forces from fellow Arab countries, the Kingdom’s o
Prime Minister Antonio Costa said on Saturday that there is a possibility for Portugal’s divided parliament to refuse to approve Lisbon’s contribution to new bailout loans for Greece and a European Union aid package to also aid Turkey deal with the migrant crisis. Costa told journalists
Jerusalem – Following Iran’s ballistic missile tests last week, came on Saturday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for the world powers to take “immediate punitive steps” against Iran; noting that Iran from its side said that the tests do not violate the agreement. The int
Athens/Idomeni – With the spread of infections that became a big concern with two people in a sprawling tent city diagnosed with Hepatitis A; Greece stated that it took the decision to step up efforts on Saturday in order to move the thousands of migrants who are stranded near the border with
More than 270,000 people have been killed and more than half of the Syrian nation has emigrated. Whole areas have been exposed to destruction and all of this has been caused by the ongoing war in Syria which is entering its sixth year. The situation has been described by the United Nations as the “l
As students from Washington, we visited Cairo in the early eighties as part of our politics lessons. I do not know why our teacher chose to visit that beautiful old building on Talaat Harb Street known as the Egyptian Diplomatic Club. There we met a number of Egyptian Foreign Ministry employees, and
Donald Trump’s Republican rivals for the White House condemned protests that shut down his planned Chicago rally on Friday, but said his aggressive speech was partly to blame. The thousands of protesters who showed up for Trump’s rally Friday evening at the University of Illinois at Chic
Russia said the decision by the international anti-doping agency WADA to ban the drug meldonium use holds “political overtones”, and that it will investigate whether positive tests among its sports stars could have been “provocations”. Russia’s R-Sport agency cited Russ
The Syrian opposition has accused the Syrian government of halting the peace talks before they even started after it dismissed on Saturday any discussion of presidential elections at peace talks due to start next week. Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem, speaking at a Damascus news conference, confir
