Qatar’s government moved last week to sign a deal on buying 36 top-notch F-15 fighter jets. After securing this purchase, Doha will possess a massive air force at its disposal. It is worth remembering that in November 2016 the Gulf peninsula also sealed a deal adding to its fleet another 72 F-15 jet
At least 57 people have been killed in wildfires that have been blazing in central Portugal since Saturday, a government official announced on Sunday. The death toll in what may be the deadliest-ever single forest blaze in the country has gradually climbed from 19 initially announced late on Saturda
Ankara – A spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry slammed on Saturday a US consular warning of a possible terrorist attack in the city of Istanbul. Hussein Mufti Oglu condemned the warning as not being based on any tangible intelligence, but on the activity of Turkish police and the intensified
French voters went to the polls on Sunday for the second round of parliamentary elections on Sunday expected to hand President Emmanuel Macron a landslide victory that should allow him to embark on deep social and economic reforms. The new assembly is due to be transformed with a new generation of l
SYDNEY- The University of Cambridge has refused a request by an Australian man to return important Aboriginal artifacts taken by British explorer Captain James Cook nearly 250 years ago, Reuters reported. Rodney Kelly is seeking the return of four spears from the university’s Museum of Archaeology a
London – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif will kick off on Sunday a tour of North Africa that includes Algeria, Mauritania and Tunisia. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that the two-day visit will tackle regional developments, including Syria and the Arab Gulf. Regional developments de
Geneva – A number of migrants suffering from hunger, torture and sexual abuse at the hands of human-traffickers presented filmed evidence of these crimes in a video of the area where they are being held. The Geneva-based International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that the video shows 250 mi
Riyadh- Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Saturday released a number of royal orders which revamped the kingdom’s public prosecution offices. The offices, previously called “The Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution” now are to be known as “the Public Prosecution”
Washington – US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cancelled his participation at next week’s Organization of American States meeting in Mexico to instead remain in Washington to focus on the crisis in the Arab Gulf. The State Department said: “The secretary of state will continue his efforts to
Khartoum – Diplomats from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt held a series of discussions with Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour over the Gulf region and crisis with Qatar. Prior to the meeting, it was said that the diplomats wanted to meet with the Sudanese official to inquir
No country has suffered from Qatari violations as much as Bahrain. No country suffered pain and was dealt blows time after time from a sister and neighbor as much as Bahrain. It all started with the historic dispute over the Hawar islands that International Criminal Court ruled to be Bahraini. Years
Ramallah- Each of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine PFLP, Hamas and terror group ISIS have claimed involvement in the attack staged by three young Palestinian nationals in Jerusalem which killed a police officer. Three Palestinians armed with an automatic weapon and knives attacked I
Beirut – Soon after Lebanese President Michel Aoun’s success in adopting a new parliamentary electoral law, he called on political parties to take part in a “reform workshop” aimed at breathing new life in state institutions and putting an end to corruption in the country. Aoun is expected to invite
Cairo – Iraqi Vice President Iyad Allawi accused on Saturday Qatar of having previously backed a project, which he had strongly confronted, to divide Iraq. During a press conference held in Cairo, Allawi said Qatar supported a project to split Iraq into a Sunni region in exchange for a Shi’ite
Beirut, Baghdad, Moscow, London – A temporary truce was announced on Saturday between the Syrian regime and opposition forces in Daraa. The announcement was made after intense talks between American and Russian officials in the Jordanian capital Amman. At the same time, Iraq’s Popular Mobilization F
Jeddah – Saudi Arabia cannot allow Turkey to set up military bases on its territories, an official security source said according to the Saudi Foreign Ministry on Twitter. The source explained that the kingdom does not need foreign bases on its land because its own armed forces are at their top leve
A fire that engulfed a London tower block this week killed at least 58 people, police said on Saturday, as Prime Minister Theresa May admitted that the response from the authorities had not been good enough. With anger mounting over the government’s handling of the blaze, May met residents fro
Reports came in on Saturday on Houthi militias fighting in an insurgency alongside armed loyalists backing ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh taking over relief and humanitarian aid convoys of the World Food Program (WFP). Convoys were taken in several Yemeni provinces, in what is believed to be a
One Afghan soldier was killed while seven American soldiers were wounded in an “insider attack” at a base in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, a US military official said. A spokesman for the US military command in Kabul confirmed that seven soldiers had been evacuated after being wounde
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Israeli victory in the 1967 war and of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. The jubilation of military victory, quicker and more comprehensive than seemed possible, has long since subsided into a grinding status quo: the oppression of 2.5 million Palesti
