US warplanes carried out air strikes early on Friday morning on militants from the ISIS terrorist group in the western Libyan city of Sabratha, killing as many as 41 people, the city’s mayor said. US officials said the targets included an ISIS training camp and Noureddine Chouchane, a senior T
While Turkey held Kurdish fighters responsible for the bloody bombing that targeted a military convoy in Ankara killing 28 on Wednesday and another bomb attack in the city of Diyarbakir that took place yesterday, the Turkish army yesterday intensified its bombing of Kurdish targets near the border w
Ramallah- Hamas declared that it was looking forward to start over a clean slate on cooperation with Iran in a statement that also served to prove the underlying disputes between the two. Osama Hamdan, top representative of Hamas, eight days after the visit of a Tehran-affiliated delegation, said: “
London, Moscow- As Iranian officials continue to claim that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) role in Syria is restricted within the limit of an advisory role, Colonel Mohammad Pakpor has said that his military troops are defending the Iranian administrative ideology in both Syria and Ira
Fighting at a United Nations peacekeeping base sheltering people fleeing conflict in South Sudan has killed 18 people, including two Medicins Sans Frontieres workers, the international medical aid group said. “This attack on civilians is outrageous and we demand that armed groups stop these ac
Any participation by Saudi forces in a US-led ground operation in Syria would focus on fighting the ISIS group not President Bashar al-Assad, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister told AFP on Thursday. “Saudi Arabia has expressed its readiness to send special forces to Syria as part of the coa
Iraq has sentenced 40 captured members of ISIS to death on Thursday for the 2014 massacre of military cadets in northern Iraq, a judicial spokesman said. At least 1,566 mostly Shia cadets are assumed to have been killed in the massacre near former US Army base Camp Speicher. Iraq’s judiciary s
London- 486,700 people in Syria are subject to blockades, over half of which are entrapped by regime forces. These figures are derived from an original 4.6 million people who reside in areas difficult to reach, according to last month’s report of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Hum
Washington-The UN Special Envoy for Yemen said the country is living “through the hardest trending days in its history.” The UN special envoy for Yemen said he was unable to call another round of peace talks because the opposing parties were deeply divided over whether there should be a ceasefire to
The United Nations aims to deliver aid to all of Syria’s 18 besieged areas within a week, making its first air drops of food aid in Syria, to Deir al-Zor, an eastern town of 200,000 besieged by ISIS militants, the chair of a U.N. humanitarian task force said on Thursday. U.N. aid agencies do n
Khobar- Crude oil extended gains after Iran said it supported a proposal by Saudi Arabia and Russia that would freeze production at near-record levels, without saying whether it would curb its own output. A provisional agreement to freeze oil production at January levels was reached in Doha on Tuesd
Joint Peninsula Shield Forces (JPSF) Commander Major-General Hassan al-Shehri, confirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat that JPSF’s mission is to uphold the Gulf’s security whenever and wherever a Gulf state requires it to. He stressed on the force’s readiness for any stability-keeping mission, in a clarificati
Syrian opposition have brought at least 2,000 reinforcements through Turkey in the past week to prop up the fight against Kurdish-led militias north of Aleppo, opposition sources said on Thursday. To carry out the transfer, opposition members were leaving Syria’s Idlib governorate, travelling
Washington- It seems that the electoral competition between Bush and Trump is not limited to TV and media statements, confrontations in debates, and primary elections as it moved on to competing for the purchase domains and redirecting websites to the buyers domain. If you tried to check the officia
Riyadh- The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan discussed, over a phone call that took place on Wednesday Feb.17, recent developments both on regional and international spheres. His Highness King Salman bin Abdulaziz and President E
Jeddah- Yemen’s national army and Popular Resistance, on feb.17, registered a sizable withdrawal of Houthi militia and Republican Guard supporters of the ousted Ali Abdullah Saleh. The drawback was recorded in areas surrounding Taiz, which were previously converted into militant camps and operations
Baghdad, London-The Kurdistan government said it accepted the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s proposal of the Iraqi federal government paying all the salaries of the 1,400,000 employees in Kurdistan after only one day of offering it. Their salaries amount to 890 billion Iraqi dinars per month
Turkey has launched overnight air strikes on Kurdish militant camps in northern Iraq overnight, only hours after a suicide car bomb attack targeting military buses killed 28 soldiers and civilians and wounded dozens in the Turkish capital Ankara, security sources said on Thursday. According to Turki
Houthi militias side by side with their Republican Guard ally have imposed mandatory recruitment across several districts in Tihamah. They are threatening citizens, forcing them to undertake military training, logging over 72 hours, in preparation for their dispatch to frontiers. Houthi militias are
Eleven years have passed since Rafik Hariri was assassinated by the Assad regime. His killers have succeeded not only in depriving Lebanon of its former prime minister and one of its most important leaders, but they have also succeeded in demolishing his project to build and develop a new Lebanon. B
