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At the beginning of the week, different media claimed that around 160 U.S. troops arrived at the Habbaniyah air base to launch a ground assault on ISIS militants in Ramadi if only the Popular Crowd forces would withdraw from Anbar. Read more
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has boasted that his country developed an air defense system that is still undisclosed and unknown to the world and that the two other newly unveiled home-made Bina and Nazir radar systems have unique features compared Read more
Judge Mohammad al-Duaij read out his ruling of the 26 June suicide attack at the Imam Sadiq mosque in a packed Kuwaiti courtroom with armored vehicles deployed around its perimeter and helicopters hovering above it. Seven suspects were handed the Read more
Ahead of President Erdogan’s October visit to Brussels, interim economy minister Nihat Zeybekci told the Turkey-Italy Business Forum, held as part of the National Day of Turkey at Expo Milano 2015, that Ankara wants to be a fully integrated member Read more
A Royal decree from King Salman of Saudi Arabia has imposed a travel ban on the executives of the Saudi Binladin Group (SBG) and ordered a compensation fee of 1million riyals ($267,000) be paid to the relatives of those killed Read more
Bahrain has been urged to work on its “insufficient accountability for human rights violations,” despite the few positive measures adopted. The call was launched by thirty two countries amongst which some of Bahrain’s major Western allies like the United States, Read more
France has announced that it will be carrying out airstrikes in Syria a week after its foreign minister Laurent Fabius stated that the military was carrying out surveillance flights over the country for possible strikes on the militants of the Read more
The rival governments in Libya have made a giant stride in the march towards peace and U.N special envoy Bernardino Leon believes that a final agreement could be signed by September 20. On Sunday, Leon told reporters that the two Read more
The peace dialogue expected to take place between the Hadi government and the Houthi movement in Oman later this week would likely not take place after the exiled government stated on Sunday that the Houthis and their allies must abide Read more
One of the world’s longest serving intelligence chiefs has been replaced in what many analysts believe to be part of an internal power struggle. A statement from the Algerian presidency published by the state media announced that president Bouteflika, who Read more