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Ambassador Thamer Sabhan

Saudi Ambassador to Iraq: Iranians Heave Sectarian Strife in Fallujah

by Badr Al-Qahtani | Jun 4, 2016 | Saudi Arabia

London- Saudi ambassador to Iraq Thamer Sabhan explained that the Iranian presence near Fallujah is only to heave further strife among the already tense animosity between Iraqi people. Sectarian divide in Iraq had been feeding into the country’s public strain. Sabhan,...

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The wreckage after a car bomb exploded outside the police college in Sanaa, Yemen in 2015. Reuters

Military Officials: Lebanese and Iranian Missiles Discovered in Yemen

by Said Al-Abyad | Jun 4, 2016 | Middle East

Jeddah-High-ranking Yemeni military officials announced that the National Army discovered a large number of Lebanese and Iranian made missiles in Haif bin Saba’an. After examining the missiles, Commander Staff Maj. Gen. Nasser al-Tahiri revealed that these missiles...

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Khalid Al-Falih Minister of Energy. Industry and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia speaks to journalists prior to the start of a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, June 2, 2016. (AP)

Al-Falih’s First OPEC Mission: Successful

by Wael Mahdi | Jun 4, 2016 | Business

Vienna- A week ago, no one concerned with the oil industry had expected for the OPEC June meeting to end in amiable accord, despite the deep running dispute among member states. Ghosts of doubt hovered over the meeting being successful. The failure of the April Doha...

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FIFA lawyers say Sepp Blatter, Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner got $80M over five years, Getty images

Ongoing FIFA Trouble

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 4, 2016 | Sports

Zurich (Switzerland) – FIFA scandals have recently sampled in an ongoing parade of exposed corruption with its latest being the Swiss police raiding its headquarters in Zurich. In the search, each of former president Sepp Blatter, former FIFA Secretary General...

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Saudi Defense Ministry spokesman General Ahmed Asiri

Asiri to Asharq Al-Awsat: UN Report is Negative and Contradictory

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 4, 2016 | Middle East

Arab coalition forces that support legitimacy in Yemen emphasised that the United Nations report’s inclusion of the coalition on its human rights violation blacklist is negative and will weaken the efforts of the UN envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh. Brigadier...