DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Residents in northern Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah flee their homes after magnitude 7.2 quake on November 12, 201. (AA Photo) Related Articles MidEast More than 60 killed after magnitude 7.2 quake on Iran-Iraq border region Turkish aid agencies become first to deliver relief supplies to the region […]
ARAB NEWS | Published — Thursday 9 November 2017 JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia has uncovered corruption to the tune of $100 billion. In a statement on Thursday, Attorney General Saud Al-Mojeb said: “The investigations of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Committee are proceeding quickly … The potential scale of corrupt practices which have […]
Summary The U.S.-led coalition’s newest outpost in the fight against Daesh (ISIS) is in a dusty corner of western Iraq near the border with Syria. Using racks of radio and satellite equipment, the coalition forces and Iraqi officers at the base pass information between forces on the ground and Al […]
Reuters International This content was published on November 13, 2017 2:56 AMNov 13, 2017 – 02:56 A damaged storefront is seen after an earthquake in Halabja, Iraq, November 12, 2017. TWITTER – Osama Golpy/Rudaw/Social Media/via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Raya Jalabi and Parisa Hafezi BAGHDAD/ANKARA (Reuters) – More than 120 […]
Reuters International This content was published on November 13, 2017 12:53 AMNov 13, 2017 – 00:53 Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, who has resigned, is seen during Future television […]
Claiming he needed a US intelligence report to realise the war was unjustified is crude insult to his own and his audience’s intelligence Matthew Norman @IndyVoices Sunday 5 November 2017 16:30 […]
Reuters International This content was published on November 11, 2017 FILE PHOTO: Posters depicting Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, who has resigned from his post, are seen in Beirut, Lebanon, November 10, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By Samia Nakhoul, Laila Bassam and Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) – From the […]
ARAB NEWS |Published — Friday 10 November 2017 JEDDAH: Abdullah bin Sulaiman Al-Manea, a member of the Council of Senior Scholars, has said that Islam is a religion of tolerance and mercy, not of violence, intolerance, or terrorism. Al-Manea stressed that Muslims should spread true Islam and follow the […]
Arab News | Published — Sunday 12 November 2017 GENEVA: Prominent thinkers, authors, diplomats and other personalities gathered to see the Muslim World League (MWL) launch the “Role of Religions […]
Nov 11,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Nermeen Murad One of the first lessons I learned as a rookie Jordanian journalist back in 1983 was that Jordan had a special and […]
By AFP – Nov 11,2017 – JORDAN TIMES BEIRUT — Lebanon’s president urged Saudi Arabia on Saturday to explain why Saad Hariri had not returned to Beirut since his surprise […]
Agencies November 10, 2017 Middle East tensions are flaring – again – as Lebanon becomes the new front in the regional rivalry between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Iran. But while the focus of the news has shifted from the battering of Islamic State to the repercussions of the resignation of […]
Pentagon By: Barbara Opall-Rome June 21 2017 HERZLIYA, Israel — The next war in Lebanon will be so powerfully punishing — with thousands of targets struck in the first day of an attack — that hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians will have to leave their homes or risk falling victim to “collateral damage,” according […]
To have Saudi officials now trying to dictate the make-up of another Lebanese government suggests that they want to take on the role played out for decades by pre-civil war […]
BURHANETTIN DURAN @burhanduran Over the past five months, Saudi Arabia has become a center of attention in world politics with unusual frequency. The main reason for this attention is […]
Source: The Foreign Policy Elephants in the Room And it looks a lot like a plan to squeeze Iran. By Dov Zakheim There seems to be a general consensus in […]
By aya batrawy, associated press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Nov 10, 2017 Among those caught in the unprecedented arrests this week of top princes, wealthy businessmen and senior officials […]
The problem in resource-rich states is that corruption is not marginal to political power, but central to acquiring it and keeping it Patrick Cockburn Baghdad @indyworld extract: The problem in resource-rich states is that corruption is not marginal to political power, but central to acquiring it and keeping it. Corruption […]
Wealthy citizens selling up investments in Gulf Cooperation Council neighbours as crackdown brinks upheaval to kingdom Archana Narayanan, Matthew Martin, Zainab Fattah, Ruth David Wealthy Saudis are moving assets out of the region to avoid the risk of getting caught up in what authorities call a crackdown on corruption, according […]
Saeed Azhar, Joshua Franklin DUBAI/ZURICH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has announced it will confiscate money and assets held by dozens of top officials and businessmen detained in an anti-corruption crackdown. But the experiences of two other Arab states trying to recover stolen money, Egypt and Tunisia, suggest Riyadh may face […]