01 Apr 2020
The spread of coronavirus is the latest crisis to hit Lebanon, already facing ongoing anti-government protests since October 2019 and finding itself in the grips of the worst economic crunch since its 1975-1990 civil war. In fact, on top of the Covid-19 outbreak, now approaching 500 confirmed cas

04/01/2020 3:41 pm -

31 Mar 2020
Across the world, the attitude displayed by the religious environments, either Cristian or Muslim, with respect to the Covid-19 pandemic has slowly switched from denying its harmfulness to half-hearted acknowledgment over the spread of the virus. Iran had canceled the weekly Friday prayers in maj
(photo’s source: vnexplorer.net)
30 Mar 2020
On March 29, 2020, the US-led coalition forces in Iraq withdrew from the K1 airbase located in the northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk (15 kilometers northwest of Kirkuk), being the third-place coalition forces have left this month, as a part of the Redeployment Plan. Coalition forces handed over t

03/30/2020 1:37 pm -

27 Mar 2020
On Wednesday, March 25, 2020, Turkish prosecutors have formally charged 20 Saudi nationals over the murder of the dissident journalist Jamal KHASOGGI in the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul in 2018, including two men close to the crown prince, Mohammed bin SALMAN. The trial in absentia would be ope

03/27/2020 12:17 am -

10 Oct 2019
Group photo, following the roundtable on "De-radicalization in Iraq After ISIS Collapse: Issues and Challenges", held in the frame of Warsaw Security Forum 2019. Among the speakers, Muayad Mouhammed Salih, Undersecretary for Administrative and Financial Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iraq,