The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz arrived in Ankara yesterday from Cairo after a visit to Egypt that lasted five days and during which “excellent” results were achieved. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received King Salman with other officials at Esenboğa Int
The Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam admitted that Lebanon committed an error and has wronged Arab Gulf countries and the Arabs. He also stressed that it would make amends by adhering to Arab consensus in all forthcoming matters. In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, Salam criticised the roles o
The Turkish Deputy Prime minister and government spokesman Numan Kurtulmuş said that Turkish – Saudi Arabian relations have been strengthened during the reign of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and that common approaches shared by the two countries are not limit
The former Lebanese president Michel Suleiman warned against “causing chaos in the streets” in order to cancel the municipal elections scheduled for this spring. He said that he fears that this chaos will “impede finding a solution to the municipal issue (the rubbish disposal problem) after impeding
The Lebanese government will today meet to discuss the implications of the latest Gulf stance following Saudi Arabia’s announcement that it has stopped its military and security aid to Lebanon and that it will review relations with Lebanon as a result of the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ sta
Lebanon lost approximately $4 billion in Saudi military aid yesterday after the Kingdom decided to “reconsider relations with Lebanon”. The aid which is considered the largest in Lebanon’s history was annulled in light of the recent positions taken by the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs a
Asharq Al-Awsat learned from informed Turkish sources yesterday that Russia has sent a letter to western countries in an attempt to forestall any Saudi – Turkish ground intervention in Syria to fight ISIS by offering to shift the regime’s operations to the governorate of Raqqah which ISIS has
