All Stories

November 1, 2016

Turkey wants Mosul offensive to end before Raqqah operation begins

Turkey wants the operation on Raqqah, Daesh’s main stronghold in Syria, to start after the Mosul campaign comes to an end, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said yesterday. “Turkey’s...

News
November 1, 2016

Kuwait may ban expats working in public sector

Kuwaiti authorities are discussing a move to stop employing expatriates in public sector jobs as part of a “Kuwaitification” policy. In a report by local Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai, sources cited...

News
November 1, 2016

Kuwait revokes licence plates of illegally parked cars

In Kuwait’s latest attempt to combat illegal parking, authorities have resorted to removing the licence plates of cars that have been parked unlawfully, or in a way that obstructs...

News
November 1, 2016

US ambassador to UN calls on Saudi to end airstrikes in Yemen

The US ambassador to the UN has called on the Saudi-led coalition to end its airstrikes in Yemen at yesterday’s UN Security Council meeting. Samantha Power began her speech...

News
November 1, 2016

Syrian children turn a bomb crater into a swimming pool

...

Videos & Photo Stories
November 1, 2016

Israel razes Muslim graves in East Jerusalem cemetery

Israeli authorities today demolished several graves in occupied East Jerusalem’s historical Bab Al-Rahmeh cemetery east of Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to a Palestinian official. Israel had confiscated parts of this...

News
November 1, 2016

France accused of hiding its archive smuggled during colonial era

The Director General of Algeria’s National Archives accused the French authorities on Monday of hiding its archive which was smuggled to Paris during the colonial era, Anadolu has reported....

News
November 1, 2016

OIC head resigns after mocking Al-Sisi

The world’s largest pan-Islamic body, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, has announced that its secretary general resigned on Monday after mocked Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi during a meeting...

News
November 1, 2016

Iran’s borders extend to the Red Sea and Mediterranean, claims official

Iran does not recognise borders when tracking down opponents, the deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said on Monday. “You have witnessed how our borders have expanded beyond...

News
November 1, 2016

PA denies that Saudi has stopped financial support

The Palestinian Authority Ambassador to Saudi Arabia denied on Monday that the kingdom has stopped its financial support, the New Gulf news website has reported. Bassam Al-Agha described the...

News

All Stories Archive

Subscribe to our newsletter