by Khaled Mahmoud and Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 10, 2017 | Middle East
Cairo, Tunisia — Head of Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez al-Sarraj stressed the importance of holding the parliamentary and presidential elections to resolve the current crisis in the country. Following his meeting with Turkey’s special envoy to Libya...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 12, 2017 | Middle East
London – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced on Friday that large numbers of Syrians, who had fled the war in their country, have started to return home. It announced that some 603,000 people have returned to their cities and villages, in what...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 5, 2017 | World
Rome- The statements by Austrian defense minister about controlling the surge of refugees to it from Italy have upset Rome that summoned its ambassador on Tuesday. In its statement, the ministry said that the Austrian government statements on deploying the army forces...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 18, 2017 | World
Thousands of migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean over the long weekend, UN aid agencies said on Tuesday. They said that some 9,000 mainly African migrants were rescued after being put by smugglers in Libya onto unseaworthy boats heading toward Italy. The...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 21, 2014 | World
Rome, Reuters—Italy’s navy has rescued more than 4,000 migrants from overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean Sea south of Sicily in the past four days and several other rescue operations are still ongoing, officials said on Friday. This week’s warm spring...
