by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 8, 2016 | Middle East
The US Secretary of State John Kerry announced the release of Wallead Yusuf Pitts Luqman, the third American citizen to be detained in Yemen since last October, after he was kidnapped by Houthis in Yemen and held for more than a year and a half. Kerry said in a...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 19, 2016 | World
The last Mauritanian citizen to be released from Guantanamo Bay arrived in Mauritania yesterday. Mohamedou Ould Slahi arrived at Nouakchott airport aboard a US military plane and was received by a Mauritanian security mission that detained him for several hours before...
by Abdullah Mustafa | Aug 13, 2016 | World
In a statement that they made yesterday, Belgian prosecutors said that three people arrested on Thursday night in the vicinity of Brussels for questioning related to terrorism have been released. A spokesman for the prosecutors told Agence France Press (AFP) that the...