by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 6, 2010 | Features, Interviews
Dammam, Asharq Al-Awsat – Director of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice [CPVPV] Dr. Abdul Aziz al-Humain has announced that the CPVPV has begun to implement a strategic plan which incorporates a number of objectives, most notably...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 4, 2010 | Interviews, Middle East
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat – Asharq Al-Awsat has obtained new information about the 19 Al Qaeda affiliated terrorist cells that Saudi authorities dismantled over the past 8 months, arresting 149 terrorist suspects, and particularly the roles played by non-Saudi nationals...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 3, 2010 | Features, Interviews
Washington, Asharq Al-Awsat- From the time US President Barack Obama appointed Scott Gration the special envoy to Sudan in March 2009, the retired American general has been spending his days between the US State Department, the White House, and over 20 visits to Sudan...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 1, 2010 | Interviews, Middle East
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat- In what may be regarded as the biggest defection from within the ruling regime in Libya, Tripoli acknowledged publicly for the first time on Monday the defection of Nuri al-Mismari, Libyan leader Col Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s aide de camp to...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 1, 2010 | Features, Interviews
London, Asharq Al-Awsat- Iyad Allawi, former Iraqi prime minister and leader of the Al-Iraqiya List that has won 91 seats in the House of Representatives, insists on continuing work to bring about the change they have promised to the Iraqi voters. This is despite the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 30, 2010 | Features, Interviews
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat- Online blogs have become a phenomenon, yet they now serve as a means to broadcast extremist ideologies, a matter touched upon by the Saudi Interior Ministry last week. As a result, questions have been raised about how to access such websites...