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Police chief Major-General Tariq al-Hasan has claimed that they have foiled plans to attack Bahrain and Saudi Arabia while claiming that the nature of the bombs and the intelligence they have acquired points at Iran. Curbing violence and insecurity has Read more
Yemeni capital city of Sanaa was rocked Wednesday by a series of deadly car bombs that targeted shia mosques and the Houthi political headquarters. At least 31 people were killed and over 140 others were injured in coordinated attacks carried Read more
The editor-in-chief of a Turkish English version newspaper has been handed a 21-month jail sentence on Tuesday for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The Ankara penal court ruled that Today’s Zaman editor-in-chief Bülent Keneş was guilty of “insulting” Erdoğan Read more
A twitter account used by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has claimed that an Iraqi fighter jet that was conducting a raid on areas north of Ramadi has been shot down on Thursday. The government refuted the Read more
Delegates meeting in Geneva to negotiate a final agreement on the Iranian nuclear program don’t seem to be making progress according to two diplomats who spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday. They hinted that the deadline set to expire Read more
An Egyptian court has confirmed the death sentence issued last May against toppled Islamist president Mohamed Morsi for escaping from prison during the 2011 popular uprising that led to the fall of Hosni Mubarak regime. The ruling however can be Read more
The consensus government known as the Unity government between Hamas and Fatah could resign in the following hours after some officials of the Revolutionary Council of the Fatah movement who were present at a meeting held in Ramallah with President Mahmoud Abbas Read more
A Bahraini court has sentenced Sheikh Ali Salman, secretary general of the al-Wefaq national Islamic movement, to four years imprisonment with charges varying from “incitement to promote change of the political system by force, threats and use of other illegal Read more
The death of the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasir Abdel Karim al-Wuhayshi, has been confirmed on Monday in local reports in the city of Al-Mukalla, in southern Yemen. Known as Abu Basir, Nasir Abdel Karim al-Wuhayshi is Read more
The development of oil refineries in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates could mean that the two countries will soon do away with the importation of fuel as the volume of imported refined oil has already started dropping. Figures Read more