by Thaer Abbas and Caroline Akoum | Sep 25, 2017 | Middle East
Beirut- A meeting held between the son-in-law of Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun and Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid Moallem in New York last week sparked dismay in the team of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, shaking the ruling alliance that would also deal on Monday with...
by Caroline Akoum and Asharq Al-Awsat | May 19, 2017 | Middle East
Beirut, London, Washington- Coalition warplanes pounded on Thursday Syrian regime forces and Iranian-backed militias advancing towards the crossing of al-Tanf where the borders of Jordan, Syria and Iraq meet. An official at the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) said...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 29, 2017 | World
Police in Brazil tear-gassed demonstrators and rioters torched buses on Friday in several cities in the violent conclusion of the country’s first general strike in more than two decades over austerity reforms. A peaceful protest by several thousand people in central...
by Badr Al-Qahtani | Mar 3, 2017 | Middle East
London, Washington- Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the organization’s branch in Yemen, received on Thursday the biggest hit since U.S. President Donald Trump assumed power early this year. The Pentagon confirmed its forces conducted more than 20 airstrikes in...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Oct 15, 2016 | Opinion
US warplanes finally struck Houthi sites and radars on the Red Sea coast after US navy ships were bombed twice. International leniency with the rebels despite the huge number of crimes that they have committed against Yemenis over two years is what has enabled this...
