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Visiting Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan together with Emir Sheikh Tammim Bin Hamad al-Thani of Qatar co-presided over the first meeting of the two countries’ Supreme Strategic Committee which ended with the signing of 15 agreements and memorandum of understanding, Read more
U.S will be sending at least 100 troops to Iraq as part of a specialized expeditionary force targeting ISIS leaders but the move is not welcomed by authorities in Baghdad. Sources hinted that the number of troops could be around Read more
Peace will return to Syria only when the West and its Middle East allies stop supporting the terrorists battling the Syrian regime. The statement was made by the controversial Syrian leader Bashar Assad in an interview aired Tuesday by the Read more
Jordan and Canada are cooperating alongside other agencies to resettle at least 25,000 Syrian refugees to the North American country by February 2016. Canada’s Immigration minister John McCallum and Health minister Jane Philpott are in Jordan and visited the Zaatari Read more
Russia has intensified its operations in Syria against rebel groups and one of its airstrikes missions is believed to have bombed a busy market place in Ariha, a town controlled by The Army of Conquest in the Idlib province, killing Read more
Jordan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in matters of innovation, research and promotion and development of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs.) The three-year agreement signed during the UAE-Jordan Economic forum is expected Read more
The Vice-president and Prime Minister of the Hadi-led government, Khaled Bahah, said they are ready to engage in “serious talks” with the Houthi Movement to end the war but it seems as if plans to boost the ranks of the Read more
The fall of Sinjar to the Iraqi Kurdish fighters known as Peshmerga after more than a year of battle with the militants of the Islamic State that took control of it since August 2014 has revealed that the extremist group Read more
President Vladmir Putin who was in Tehran Monday assured the Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei of Russia’s support to Iran, a country that he described as “an independent and strong country with very good prospects.” Putin said Moscow considers Iran as Read more
Oman’s sovereign debt has been downgraded by the Standard and Poor’s (S&P) rating agency from A- to a BBB+ citing a negative outlook because “the government’s fiscal and external positions could deteriorate beyond our current expectations over the next two Read more