BEIRUT: Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters pledged on Friday to back a potential cross-border offensive that Ankara has threatened to mount against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria. The US-led coalition and Turkey conducted on Friday their third joint patrol in northeastern Syria, they said, part of a plan designed to defuse tensions between Washington’s two allies…
WASHINGTON: Iran has not drawn back to a less threatening military posture in the region following the Sept. 14 attack on Saudi Arabia, the top US admiral in the Middle East told Reuters, suggesting persistent concern despite a lull in violence.“I don’t believe that they’re drawing back at all,” Vice Admiral Jim Malloy, commander of…
ALGIERS: Tens of thousands of Algerian protesters chanted slogans on Friday demanding the army quit politics, a purge of the ruling elite, an end to corruption, and the freeing of opposition leaders.The demonstrations in the capital Algiers and several other cities follow a ruling by a prominent independent cleric this week urging people to vote…
BAGHDAD: The current demonstrations in Iraq seek to show the international community what is happening in the country, and force out corrupt officials and politicians, Mustafa Hameed, a senior organizer of the protests, told Arab News on Thursday. They are an attempt to topple the government of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi. The protesters do not…
BAGHDAD: The current demonstrations in Iraq seek to show the international community what is happening in the country, and force out corrupt officials and politicians, Mustafa Hameed, a senior organizer of the protests, told Arab News on Thursday. They are an attempt to topple the government of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi. The protesters do not…
BAGHDAD: The current demonstrations in Iraq seek to show the international community what is happening in the country, and force out corrupt officials and politicians, Mustafa Hameed, a senior organizer of the protests, told Arab News on Thursday. They are an attempt to topple the government of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi. The protesters do not…
RIYADH: The Arab coalition in Yemen has admitted accidentally bombing the National Center for Blood Transfusion and Research in Sanaa. According to a report by Yemen’s National Committee for the Investigation of Allegations of Human Rights Violations, the medical facility was struck on April 27 this year by a concrete bomb that destroyed part of the…
RIYADH: The Arab coalition in Yemen has admitted accidentally bombing the National Center for Blood Transfusion and Research in Sanaa. According to a report by Yemen’s National Committee for the Investigation of Allegations of Human Rights Violations, the medical facility was struck on April 27 this year by a concrete bomb that destroyed part of the…
RIYADH: The Arab coalition in Yemen has admitted accidentally bombing the National Center for Blood Transfusion and Research in Sanaa. According to a report by Yemen’s National Committee for the Investigation of Allegations of Human Rights Violations, the medical facility was struck on April 27 this year by a concrete bomb that destroyed part of the…
ANKARA: Turkey has no choice but to act alone given too little progress has been made with the US forming a “safe zone” in northeastern Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday in his most direct indication of a cross-border offensive.After eight years of war in neighboring Syria, Ankara and NATO ally Washington have agreed…
GAZA CITY: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the UN General Assembly last week that he plans to set a date for the first general election in 13 years in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. Is it possible to hold such an election, and is the best option to turn the page and start…
CAIRO: Egyptian and American authorities have announced that the golden coffin of Egyptian priest Nedjemankh, which was stolen during the 2011 revolution, was this week returned to Egypt after it was fraudulently sold to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The large decorated coffin dates back to the first century BC. It was excavated from Minya…
ALEPPO: Among the destroyed buildings of Syria’s Aleppo, a battered sign between two army checkpoints welcomes visitors to an area earmarked to become a beacon of post-war reconstruction.“The industrial city of Aleppo thanks you for your visit,” it reads. Once the country’s powerhouse, Aleppo was devastated by Syria’s ongoing civil war before Russia-backed government forces…
ALGIERS: Algeria’s army chief and de facto strongman has dubbed the sentencing of deposed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s brother and several other ex-regime players to 15 years in jail “just punishment.”“The just punishment handed down to certain elements of the gang ... (amount to) realizing an urgent and legitimate claim of the people,” Ahmed Gaid Salah…
ALGIERS: Algeria’s army chief and de facto strongman has dubbed the sentencing of deposed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s brother and several other ex-regime players to 15 years in jail “just punishment.”“The just punishment handed down to certain elements of the gang ... (amount to) realizing an urgent and legitimate claim of the people,” Ahmed Gaid Salah…
AMMAN: The Jordanian government and the public teachers’ union have plunged the country into one of the most serious labor disputes in its history, as a court ordered a temporary cessation of a three-week labor strike on Sunday. The teachers’ union has submitted a rebuttal to the order but at the same time called on its…
NABEUL, TUNISIA: The professor refuses to campaign for president and the prisoner cannot, yet both are running for Tunisia’s highest office. Tunisian voters sent two political outsiders into the presidential runoff, forcing a choice between an obscure conservative law professor who believes Tunisians know enough about him already and a media magnate whose face is plastered…
AMMAN: The Jordanian government and the public teachers’ union have plunged the country into one of the most serious labor disputes in its history, as a court ordered a temporary cessation of a three-week labor strike on Sunday. The teachers’ union has submitted a rebuttal to the order but at the same time called on its…
DUBAI: The British-flagged Stena Impero tanker, detained by Iran in July, has started moving and exited the Bandar Abbas port on Friday, according to Refinitiv ship-tracking data.The Stena Impero was detained by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in the Strait of Hormuz waterway for alleged marine violations two weeks after Britain seized an Iranian tanker off the…
Yemen’s ambassador to Egypt accused of ‘stealing’ top students’ scholarships ‘for friends’ Yemen’s ambassador in Egypt, Mohamed Marem, was accused of corruption and “stealing” government scholarships of Yemeni students to give to “his friends’” children, Yemeni media reported. Fatima Hajar, who received a 99.7 percent average grade from school, arrived in Cairo after receiving a government…
