by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 10, 2016 | Middle East
U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Friday they could not confirm a report by an Iraqi TV channel that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been wounded in an air strike in northern Iraq. A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition fighting the radical Islamist militants,...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 10, 2016 | World
The U.S. government posted a $53 billion budget deficit in May, a 38 percent drop from the same month last year, the Treasury Department said on Friday. The government had a deficit of $84 billion in May of 2015, according to the Treasury’s monthly budget...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 10, 2016 | World
Before police could even manage establishing who was responsible for the car bombing in Istanbul which killed 11 this week, the government in Turkey had banned the media from reporting anything about ongoing investigations. Prohibitions have been put into effect after...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 10, 2016 | Middle East
The Egyptian Ministry of Interior yesterday said that security forces have managed to arrest 13 members of a new terrorist cell that is affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Alexandria. The members of the cell, which is called “Lijan Al-Irbaak”,...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 10, 2016 | Middle East
For the first time since 2012 an international aid convoy made its way to the Opposition-held Syrian town of Daraya overnight to deliver food supplies, the United Nations said on Friday. The town was completely sieged by Assad’s so-called regime forces. Aid trucks...
