EU leaders and Turkey met on Monday in a last-minute attempt to control the massive movement of people across the continent. Greece promised it would deliver on its pledges to shelter 30,000 migrants and refugees within a week, a government spokesman said on the day of the meeting. Greece has been t
Baghdad- Iraq is passing through several political, security and economic difficult situations. War against ISIS, with the treasury about to go bankrupt and the people protesting for the government and political parties to fight the ongoing corruption, all are among those lines of challenges facing
Two Italian hostages were freed in Libya and flown back to Italy on Sunday, after two of their fellow captives were reportedly killed by ISIS militants, officials said. The four captives were employees of an Italian construction company Bonatti and were detained last July near the western Libyan cit
The Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi confirmed on March 5th that the people of his country has defined their choices and outlined their future and the future of a new unionism for Yemen. President Hadi, while receiving the U.N. Yemeni Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said that the good
The “Golden Age”, that is how a French official described the Saudi-French bilateral relationships to Asharq Al-Awsat. The description summarizes the vision convergence the two countries share on the majority of cases. France’s stances from regional cases, which are both abundant and complex, is muc
Istanbul-The National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces in an uncontested election on March 5th elected Anas al-A’bda as the new coalition’s President. Al-A’abdah will be succeeding Khaled Khoja who had his term come to an end. Moreover, al-A’bdah was elected during a meeting
Practically and metaphorically we can say that Egypt has experienced two revolutions in the past five years; the first ousted Hosni Mubarak and the second deposed Mohamed Morsi and stopped the Muslim Brotherhood from being involved in political action. The third revolution attempted and failed to ac
Tighten your belts; the US is heading for the bumpiest presidential election ride in decades. This was the key message that came out of the so-called “Super Tuesday” in which 12 states held primaries and one, Colorado, a caucus, to pick their nominees for the Democrat and Republican parties in next
ISIS is lagging behind in a battle by forces arraigned against if from many sides in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. envoy to a coalition fighting the group said on Saturday. The focus now has to turn to stabilizing cities seized back from them, he added. Addressing a press conference in Baghdad, U.S. offi
Gunmen opened fire and shot dead a police colonel and his aide as their vehicle was passing through a roundabout in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Saturday, a local security official and witnesses said. The attack on Col. Salem al-Milqat, police chief of Tawahi district, took place in the resti
In a media interview published on Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Greece to deliver quickly on its pledge to provide accommodation for 50,000 refugees saying that the European Union should help Athens with this task. Austria, one of the last stepping stones to Germany for hundreds of
Germany’s European Union Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said on Saturday that the European Union may need to more than double financial aid already pledged to Turkey to help it keep millions of Syrian refugees fleeing the five-year-old civil war on its soil. The European Commission on Friday
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir reiterated on Saturday the importance of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leaving at the beginning of a political transition, not at the end. “For us it is very clear it’s at the beginning of the process, not at the end of the process, it’s not
Anbar- Local officials at the Al Anbar Governorate, located west of Iraq, requested that the Iraqi government give out immediately effective orders for security forces to mobilize towards the two cities of Fallujah and Hīt, in a swift action to rescue the lives of over 200 thousand civilians residin
Aden- Recently, al-Qaeda late leader Ossama bin Laden’s revealed documents let slip of his affiliation with the ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The CIA disclosed documents exposing bin Laden’s attentiveness to the situation in Yemen after the break of demonstrations against Saleh which demanded
Beirut- Syrian cities subject to Syrian Opposition’s control on Friday witnessed the return of nonviolent protests. Demonstrations had been put on hold for three years now. Marchers across each of the Syrian towns Aleppo, Azaz, Saraqib, Talbiseh, Duma and Daraa all demanded the overthrow of Presiden
The United Nations Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said in an interview with pan-Arab newspaper Al Hayat that he expected a staggered start to peace talks next week, with participants arriving over several days for “indirect meetings”. “I see us beginning on March 10 when we will la
The Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz who is also the Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister concluded his official visit to France during which he held extensive talks with President Francois Hollande, Prime Minister Manuel Valls and other officials in the French government.
London- A large-scale discovery in Britain is expected to result in revolutionary personalized treatments for patients and that would later enable them to enter trials within two years. Scientists behind the breakthrough believe they have found the “Achilles’ heel” of cancer cells. In a video about
Beirut- Days ahead of the scheduled Geneva negotiations, leaders of France, Britain, Germany, and Russia exchanged phone call sessions during which they deliberated on the Syrian crisis. The Kremlin stated that the four leaders had agreed that the ceasefire in Syria has already begun to witness posi
