by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 7, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East
Syria’s opposition coordinator Riad Hijab said on Monday that the group would decide by the end of the week whether to attend upcoming peace talks in Geneva and has protested to the United Nations that Russian air strikes have continued regardless of the truce agreed...
by Heba El Koudsy | Feb 23, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East
While the US Secretary of State John Kerry announced yesterday that Washington and Moscow have agreed on a plan for a ceasefire in Syria starting at midnight on Friday with the exception of bombing ISIS and the Al-Nusra Front, an official at the US State Department...
by Adhwan Alahmari | Nov 14, 2015 | World
A press officer for the British Transport Police, Jimmy Thomas, said in a statement to “Asharq Al-Awsat” that Yoshiyuki Shinohara, the pensioner who pushed a woman towards an underground train at Piccadilly Station last Tuesday is currently in custody charged with...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 2, 2014 | Sports
Zurich, AP—Soccer’s global governing body FIFA will officially allow male and female players to cover their heads during soccer matches for religious reasons. The decision was approved a meeting of the sport’s rules-making panel, the International Football Association...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 20, 2013 | World
Trappes, France, AP—About 250 people hurling projectiles clashed with police firing tear gas west of Paris, in apparent protest over enforcement of France’s ban on Islamic face veils. Five people were injured and six detained in the violence, authorities said...
