Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Saudi Securities Depository Centre Company has already signed two contracts with the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange and Bahrain Clear to allow foreign companies to make listings on Tadawul. The Saudi Capital Market Authority (CMA) has introduced measures to allow foreign companies to carry out listings on the country’s main stock exchange, Tadawul, Al-Arabiya broadcaster reported on Monday, citing Tadawul’s head, Khalid Al Hussan. Listing in corporate finance is a set of procedures referring to a company’s shares being on a list of stocks that are officially traded on a stock exchange. These changes are related to the importance of greater…

In October 2018, Qatar Petroleum announced that it would manage and operate the ISND oil field once the development and production sharing agreement signed with Occidental Petroleum of Qatar Ltd. expires in October 2019. Qatar Petroleum will manage and operate Idd El-Shargi North Dome (ISND) and Idd El-Shargi South Dome (ISSD) offshore oil fields, the company said on Monday. “Qatar Petroleum today assumed the management and operatorship of the Idd El-Shargi North Dome (ISND) and Idd El-Shargi South Dome (ISSD) offshore oil fields, following the expiry of the development and production sharing agreements with Occidental Petroleum of Qatar Ltd. (OXY)…

The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces says Yemeni Army troops and allied fighters from Popular Committees are fully prepared to counter any threat posed by the Saudi-led coalition of aggression and retaliate against any act of animosity. Speaking at a press conference in the capital Sana’a on Tuesday afternoon, Brigadier General Yahya Saree said Yemeni forces are fiercely committed to deal with any act of aggression, irrespective of its intensity and extent, the media bureau of the Houthi Ansarullah movement reported. Saree added that Yemeni Armed Forces would respond appropriately to any act of hostility, and that air defense units will confront any sorties of the enemy,…

BY JEREMY SALT Abandoning its Syrian Kurdish allies, the US is pulling its troops back from the Turkish border to allow the Turkish military to begin a campaign east of the Euphrates. Within hours of the announcement coming from the White House on October 6, the troops were being withdrawn and Turkey was shelling Kurdish YPG (People’s Protection Units) positions across the border, with a land operation regarded as imminent. The decision took the Washington political and media establishment by surprise. According to Trump, “it’s time to get out of ridiculous endless wars …. the United States was supposed to be…

By Stephen Lendman International law is clear and unequivocal. No nation may interfere in the internal affairs of others. No foreign military of proxy force may occupy another country’s territory. No nation may attack another state without Security Council authorization — permitted only in self-defense, never preemptively for any reasons. As a signatory to the UN Charter, international laws of war and related ones are automatically US constitutional law under its Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Paragraph 2). Both right wings of the US one-party state repeatedly and egregiously flaunt international, constitutional, and US statute laws, pertaining to war and related geopolitical…

By Elijah J. Magnier Over the years, researchers have copied and parroted inaccurate declassified US intelligence reports on Hezbollah’s sources of income around the world. These documents claim Hezbollah lives off selling smuggled cigarettes and illegally copied CDs or on income generated by selling drugs in Latin America and around the world. The US also accuses Hezbollah of profiting from commercial or business projects abroad and of having bank accounts worldwide. These claims were pretexts for the US to impose sanctions on the group and confiscate foreign accounts that, in reality, did not belong to Hezbollah. When all attempts to curb…

By Andrew Korybko The US-brokered Taliban-Indian prisoner swap might lead to the resumption of the Afghan peace process but the deal also carries with it somewhat uncomfortable optics for Pakistan since it was likely agreed to during US peace envoy Khalilzad’s “ice-breaking” meeting with the Taliban in Islamabad last week. Last week’s informal meeting between the Taliban and US peace envoy Khalilzad in Islamabad was a lot more important than just a symbolic “ice-breaking” following Trump’s decision to unexpectedly call off peace talks just days before he planned to secretly host the Taliban last month after it’s since been revealed that Washington brokered a Taliban-Indian…

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the United States is an “irrelevant occupier in Syria,” stressing that peace will be achieved in the war-ravaged country only through respect for its territorial integrity and people‎. “US is an irrelevant occupier in Syria—futile to seek its permission or rely on it for security,” Zarif said in a post on his official Twitter account on Monday, after the US gave the green light to Turkey to launch a military operation in northern Syria. “Achieving peace & fighting terror in Syria will only succeed thru respect for its territorial integrity & its people,”…

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Syria’s territorial integrity must be preserved and all foreign troops illegally present in the conflict-plagued Arab country must leave, as the United States announced it was withdrawing troops from northeastern Syria. “Russia’s position, recently announced by President [Vladimir] Putin, is that all foreign troops illegally present in Syria must leave the country,” Peskov told reporters in Moscow on Monday. The Kremlin spokesman then commented on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statement that Ankara is prepared for a military campaign against Kurdish-led militants from the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeastern Syria, emphasizing Russia’s call for refraining…

By Stephen Lendman Time and again, when peaceful protests turn violent in various countries, US dirty hands are involved. There’s no ambiguity about months of protests in Hong Kong, US dirty hands all over them, local elements involved having met with Trump regime and congressional officials, as well as a US consular one in the city. Nearly a week of violent protests in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq, killing over 100, injuring thousands, security forces among the dead and wounded, bear similarity to the US-orchestrated late 2013/early 2014 color revolution in Ukraine. The Euromaidan uprising was and remains all about replacing…