Asharq Al-Awsat

Syrian FM’s Visit Lays Groundwork for Strategic Partnership with Lebanon

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani‘s visit to Beirut was more than a diplomatic stop. Coming amid sweeping regional ...
Asharq Al-Awsat

NATO Chief May Have to Match His Made-for-Trump Sales Pitch to Keep a Summit on the Rails

Since he started work as NATO secretary-general almost two years ago, Mark Rutte has spent much of his time trying to keep ...

80 million trees were wiped out in seconds in Siberia after a space rock explosion more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, but scientists never found a crater

An explosion powerful enough to destroy millions of trees should have left behind a giant crater. Instead, when scientists ...

Phil Wood

A hospital trust in West Yorkshire has apologised after a baby was born starved of oxygen and with brain damage, despite scans revealing weeks earlier he needed to be delivered prematurely.

Iran is forcing the US into an escalation trap as a 'shadow war' over the Strait of Hormuz heats up that could kill the tenuous ceasefire

"The collision course is set, and worse is yet to come." ...