Cairo - Egyptian authorities accused on Monday Ola el-Qaradawi, daughter of the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and her husband Hossam Khalaf, a leading member of the Islamist Wasat Party, of providing the Brotherhood with resources from (...)
Sinai- Palestinian sources told Saudi newspaper 'Asharq al-Awsat' that ISIS in Sinai has been prohibiting, for two weeks, traders of Rafah from bringing commodities into Gaza Strip after Hamas had stopped its coordination with the organization and (...)
U.S. President Barack Obama painted an optimistic picture of America's future and offered full-throated support for Hillary Clinton's bit to beat Donald Trump, warning the 2016 race was not just about politics, but the nature of democracy in the (...)
Cairo-Negotiations on a peaceful settlement to the conflict in Yemen, currently underway in Kuwait, will be extended for another week.
Well-informed sources told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that U.N. Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed (...)
Three expatriate workers were injured on Thursday when a missile fired from across the Yemeni border hit a tree in Najran burned down trucks parked nearby.
Civil Defense spokesman in Najran Col. Ali Al-Shahrani identified the victims as Egyptians. (...)
His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, have examined ways of promoting fraternal relations between the (...)
Defense officials and leaders from more than 30 countries gathered at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to agree on the next steps in the campaign against ISIS.
The meeting was attended by Deputy Crown Prince, Prime Minister (...)
A hand-drawn ISIS flag was found in the room of the Afghan refugee who attacked passengers on a train in southern Germany, a senior state official said on Tuesday.
The 17-year-old armed with an ax and a knife attacked passengers aboard a regional (...)
New York – Baghdad – The United Nations Security Council has once again condemned Iran for violating international laws by arming militias in Iraq, while U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced his concern over the launching of ballistic missiles (...)
Effectively kicking off the activities of the 27th African Union's summit in Rwanda's capital Kigali, participants announced that the summit is chiefly aimed at bolstering integration and merger among union members.
The Kigali summit deals with key (...)
The Turks witnessed a terrifying night, one they are likely to remember for years to come, after a failed coup attempted on Friday.
Incidents happened rapidly like one of those horror movies with planes buzzing and bullets everywhere.
Turkish (...)
Syrian Democratic Forces militias are advancing slowly in the area of Manbij, Aleppo, where heavy fighting with ISIS continues at a time when thousands of blockaded civilians are suffering from a humanitarian disaster caused by the blockade imposed (...)
After kicking out Al-Qaeda from Al Anbar, west of Iraq in 2007, and forming Iraqi Sahwa forces no one from the Iraqi political figures expected a new version of this organization be born after years. Yet, this time the purpose was not to expand in (...)
In battles of the Iraqi army against ISIS to liberate Saladin in 2015, the terrorist organization had involved , for the first time, the "fourth generation" of ISIS's suicide bombers called "Inghimasis" or (suicide fighters), who represent a (...)
Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense concluded his two-week business visit to the U.S. by signing an agreement with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and granting 3M Global an operating (...)
Forces backed by Libya's unity government said on Wednesday they had consolidated positions on the edge of Sirte, repelling sniper, tank and mortar attacks as they seek to dislodge ISIS militants from its North African stronghold.
Fighting resumed (...)
The Orlando attack has deepened the gap between the two U.S. presidential candidates who instead of going towards national unity, had opted for criticizing each others' counterterrorism programs.
At the start of a speech he delivered Monday in (...)
Palestinians asked the United States to intervene so that the Paris economic agreement can be re-evaluated at the first high level joint meeting in Ramallah in which economic dialogue between the two parties was re-established after it was stopped a (...)
ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing that killed ten soldiers in the Yemeni southern port city of Mukalla on Thursday.
The militant group said in an online statement that one of its members had blown himself up in a car near (...)
The organisation Hamas that rules over the Gaza Strip has removed Muslim Brotherhood slogans and pictures of their leaders including the group's founder Hassan Al-Banna and former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. It is thought that this surprising (...)
The unprecedented resolution is aimed at pressuring Damascus to end its deadly suppression of an eight- month-old uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad.
However, while hailing the move, many writers said they believed it was another case of too (...)
In an article in the Saudi-financed London-based Asharq Al-Awsat Abdel-Rahman Al-Rashid wrote that despite the fact that the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi predicted his fate he did not do much to prevent it.
Al-Rashid explained that following the (...)
Doaa El-Bey and Rasha Saad conduct assessments on Egypt's parliamentary elections and the WikiLeaks embarrassment
Arab pundits say US government memos uploaded in WikiLeaks is a Washington diplomatic scandal.
Tariq Al-Homayed explains that it is a (...)
Pundits warned about the Arab League's proposal to expand the membership of the organisation to include non-Arab neighbours. As much as the term "neighbouring countries" is vague, the term primarily refers to Iran and Turkey.
Arab League (...)
The Libyan leader embracing the Egyptian and Yemeni presidents while Arab League officials watch from the background, along with African leaders all smiling wide, was a front page photo in nearly all Arab newspapers. The group photo taken at the end (...)