by Thair Abbas | Feb 20, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East
Lebanon lost approximately $4 billion in Saudi military aid yesterday after the Kingdom decided to “reconsider relations with Lebanon”. The aid which is considered the largest in Lebanon’s history was annulled in light of the recent positions taken by the...
by Thair Abbas | Feb 17, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East
Asharq Al-Awsat learned from informed Turkish sources yesterday that Russia has sent a letter to western countries in an attempt to forestall any Saudi – Turkish ground intervention in Syria to fight ISIS by offering to shift the regime’s operations to the...
by Thair Abbas | Nov 25, 2015 | World
The shooting down of a Russian plane by a Turkish missile near the Turkish border yesterday has triggered a delicate situation in the region as it waits for the Russian response to the operation which came after a series of warnings from Turkey about airspace...
by Thair Abbas | Nov 18, 2015 | Latest News, Middle East, World
Turkish official sources yesterday confirmed that the Turkish army and international coalition forces consider that the military operation that ISIS is preparing for aims to invade areas that the Free Syrian Army and the Syrian Turkmen Army opposition groups are...
by Thair Abbas | Oct 24, 2015 | Middle East
Beirut and Vienna, Asharq Al-Awsat—Russia has proposed forming a transitional government in Syria and freezing fighting between government forces and Western-backed rebel factions amid ambiguity about the fate of President Bashar Al-Assad, according to Turkish and...
