Month: December 2016

A pair of girls, believed to be aged between 7 and 8, blew themselves up in a bustling northeastern Nigerian market in Maiduguri, killing themselves and injuring at least 17 others, according to a local official and a militia member. The attack carried out by […]

Two car explosions took place in Iraq’s Fallujah on Sunday, killing eight people, Reuters reported citing police and hospital sources. It remains unknown how many people have been injured. Members with Iraqi counter-terrorism forces patrol Fallujah, Iraq. (File) © AFP 2016/ Hadi Mizban Two Suicide […]

The political forces are seeking to reach a “broad settlement” over the distribution of the ministerial portfolios that are still a subject of contention so that the new cabinet can be formed soon, a media report said on Sunday. “There are strong efforts aimed at […]

Caretaker Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister and Free Patriotic Movement head Gebran Bassil, said on Sunday that the next government would be a transitional government. Minsiter Bassil’s words came on Saturday during FPM annual dinner in Fih in Koura District. Bassil added that the new […]

Three Syrian opposition officials say outmatched rebels battling Russia-backed government forces in eastern Aleppo have received a U.S.-backed proposal to join with civilians in leaving the city, under safe passage guaranteed by Russia. Reuters news agency reported the proposal late Sunday, saying rebel groups had […]

Syrian rebels have received a U.S.-backed proposal to leave Aleppo along with civilians under safe passage guaranteed by Russia, rebel officials said as government forces closed in on Sunday, but Moscow denied a deal had been reached. If the proposal were to be taken up […]

“Change and Reform” Parliamentary Bloc Secretary, MP Ibrahim Kanaan, stressed, on Sunday, that “there shall be no extension of the current Parliament Council’s mandate nor will there be any going back to the 1960 electoral law.” “Our Bloc is open to any law that ensures […]

A Syrian monitor says Islamic State jihadists have recaptured the Syrian city of Palmrya, during what has become a back-and-forth battle for control of the famed desert city. Rami Abdel Rahman of the British-based monitor group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday, “Despite the […]

President-elect Donald Trump has rejected as “ridiculous” a CIA assessment that Russian hackers tried to sway the election in his favour. He told Fox News the Democrats were putting out the reports because they were embarrassed at the scale of the election defeat. On Friday, […]