The recent act of terrorism in Paris has confirmed one, definite thing; the necessity for intervention in Syria and putting an end to this chaos, the dangers of which have reached beyond the Middle East. In Vienna, instead of solving the crisis with intervention, the proposed solution calls for an i
The Liberal Democratic Party’s candidate for the London Mayoral elections Caroline Pidgeon said that in the event that she wins the elections to be held in May 2016, she will work to listen to the voice of Muslim communities through her participation in taking decisions within the capital’s institut
Turkish official sources yesterday confirmed that the Turkish army and international coalition forces consider that the military operation that ISIS is preparing for aims to invade areas that the Free Syrian Army and the Syrian Turkmen Army opposition groups are active in. The sources mentioned to “
The eve of the G20 summit hosted by Turkey which ended yesterday was very disturbing and dominated the atmosphere of the summit and those present after the bad news which came from Paris where the terrorist attacks targeted the French capital and left hundreds dead and wounded. At the same time thes
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz emphasised the necessity for the international community to double its efforts to root out terrorism, stressing that this phenomenon is a “global disease which does not have a nationality or a religion”. The Custodian of the Two Holy Mo
I am not surprised that the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani demanded in his interview with an Italian newspaper that the United States should apologise to his country before the countries opened embassies in the capitals of each others’ countries. Falsification of history has become synonymou
“An act of war”. This is how the French President described the terrorist attacks in Paris which targeted his country on Friday. It is certainly a description that is not far from the truth, not only because of the unprecedented death toll in the history of terrorist operations in the Republic of Fr
The G20 summit in the Turkish city Antalya got underway yesterday and combatting terrorism was at the top of the agenda due to the recent attacks targeting Paris which left at least 129 people dead. Participating leaders stopped to observe a minute’s silence to mourn the victims of the attack. The T
A press officer for the British Transport Police, Jimmy Thomas, said in a statement to “Asharq Al-Awsat” that Yoshiyuki Shinohara, the pensioner who pushed a woman towards an underground train at Piccadilly Station last Tuesday is currently in custody charged with attempted murder and will appear in
To sign, or not to sign? For the Islamic Republic President Hassan Rouhani, that is the question. The signature in question refers to the trigger needed to activate the so-called “nuclear deal” negotiated with the P5+1 group in Vienna last summer. During two years of negotiations, part of it in secr
Central Paris witnessed several shootings yesterday evening while explosions dotted the vicinity of the Stade de France in the north of the French capital which resulted in at least 60 people being killed and a large number wounded, according to police sources. Police evacuated the French President
If Arab countries searched for growing international powers that agree with them on main issues, then they will not find better powers to agree with them than the Latin American states at the Arab-Latin American Summit which ended on Wednesday. These issues include the the primary Arab issue, Palest
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz arrived in Antalya yesterday evening and is leading the Saudi delegation participating in the G-20 Summit which will be held in the Turkish city on Sunday. King Salman was received at the airport by the Turkish Minister of Economic Affa
An army created by “others” cannot be reformed; it must be abolished and replaced by a new one loyal to the revolution. For almost four decades, that has been one of the key themes of the regional strategy pursued by the Khomeinist regime in Tehran. The original theoretician of the strategy was Most
Does a seminar on reforming the meter and rhyme schemes of Persian poetry violate “Islamic values” and threaten the foundations of the Islamic Republic in Iran? That is the view of the Islamic Court in Tehran which last month sentenced two poets to 9 and 11 years in prison respectively plus 99 lashe
European intelligence services managed to thwart a cyber-attack carried out by a group believed to be linked to the Iranian “Revolutionary Guards” which aimed to gather sensitive information about approximately 1600 prominent targets worldwide including Saudi princes and officials. Researchers belon
Can we imagine a scenario in which the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is victorious and becomes the first terrorist state which spreads fear and destruction in the region and the world? This thought crosses one’s mind after the fall of the Russian tourist plane in Sinai, the accompanying dip
Of the two most famous men in modern Yemeni history, the first is the ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh who attained power as a soldier without education, and the second is the famous diplomat Dr. Abdul Karim Ali Al-Iryani who hailed from a house of knowledge and wisdom; his uncle was the second p
The Saudi Deputy Minister for Petroleum Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz warned that the current drop in oil prices will not last and may have a significant and long term effect on supplies in the future. Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman explained in a speech that he gave in Doha, Qatar to the e
To all those who believed that the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) is past its sell-by date, the outcome of the latest general election in Turkey is a big disappointment. To start with, the party’s record in the life of the previous parliament was not a bright one by any standards. Dom
