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Khalil Khan
Joined on: Apr 23, 2014 Published stories: 282

Articles By Khalil Khan

Assad Points Another Overwhelming Electoral Victory

assad wins presidential elections

The election authority declared Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a resounding victory in Tuesday’s election, held in the middle of a civil war that is ravaging the country. The result was as spectacular as expected: 88.7 % for president, 4.3% for the Liberal candidate Hasan Nuri and 3.2 % for the Communist Hayad Maher. After hearing […]

MQM Will Continue Protests Until Altaf Hussain’s Health Assured

mqm leader farooq sattar

Farooq Sattar, MQM leader told reporters that Muthidah Quami Movement workers will continue their protest Altaf Hussain’s health is assured. Altaf Hussain had earlier spoken to the party leaders on phone and asked them to respect the law and stay peaceful.  MQM leaders appealed to the business community to resume business activities in the city. […]

Francois Hollande Plans to Reduce Nnumber of Regions in France

France Map

It is the reform of all reforms. France map will change and will have some of 22 metropolitan regions combined in a bid to reduce administrative costs. After the defeats in local and European, with unemployment rising and the economy stagnating, Hollande needs a project to hold on to continue his mandate. Only thus its […]

Taliban Release a video showing exchange of U.S. soldier

US soldier released in exchange of 5 Taliban prisoners

Taliban has released a video Wednesday of release Sgt Bowe Bergdahl of the U.S., after five years of captivity in Afghanistan. The images show the soldier sitting in a van before being passed to a helicopter of the U.S. armed forces. The release on Saturday Bergdahl, 28, in exchange for five Taliban prisoners in Guantanamo, […]

Russia agrees to a temporary solution to the ‘gas war ‘

gas deal

Europe moves away from the scene of interruptions in the supply of Russian gas this summer. Russia and Ukraine agreed on Monday a joint framework to settle the debts of millions and set a price for future deliveries. The European Commissioner for Energy, Günther Oettinger, called the pact to guarantee deliveries unchanged at least a […]

Insurgents seize a border post in Lugansk

Lugansk clashes

Fighting in the Lugansk area, very close to the Russian border, began at dawn when the insurgents, who do not recognize the central government launched an attack with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and bazocas against a post of the Ukrainian border guard. In the version of the Border Service of Ukraine, the attackers killed five while […]

England Hopes to Host FIFA World Cup 2018 Replacing Russia

fifa football world cup 2018

England still aspires to organize the 2018 World Cup, albeit by the back door. British Prime Minister David Cameron hinted that possibility Monday at a public symposium. And a former British sports minister demanded that if FIFA corruption overrides the World 2022 award to Qatar, Russia 2018 also set aside because it was decided the […]

Assad Likely to Win Syrian Presidential Elections

elections in syria

The Syrians have already started to vote on Tuesday in the first elections in 50 years with more than one candidate. Voting takes place in areas under the control of the regime of Bashar al-Assad, in power since 2000, except in Al Raga (north of the country), region in the hands of the radical group […]

Weapons and Chechen militants supporting Rebellion in Ukraine

ukraine russia

Slaviansk lives under intermittent attacks, while the self-proclaimed government of the neighboring Donetsk tries to remain calm in the besieged city. The situation remains entrenched in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian forces in their positions resist the great transaction announced earlier this week by the new president, Peter Poroshenko, ending up with the answer to the […]

Al Sisi is not a new Mubarak

Egytian election 2014 low turnout

After a long diplomatic career that led him to chair the Arab League, at 77, Amr Musa has turned in Egyptian politics. The disappointing outcome of his candidacy in the 2012 presidential election he kept himself in foreground. Musa was the president of the Constituent Assembly that drafted late last year the new constitution of […]

Obama sees exchange of prisoners an opportunity for Afghanistan

Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl

The release of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier swapped for Taliban prisoners on Saturday after five years of captivity between Afghanistan and Pakistan is too full of contrasts, and its consequences seem too uncertain to be celebrated in the United States. There have been no jingoistic expressions after Bergdahl exchange for five Taliban prisoners […]

Suspect Arrested in Jewish Museum attack in Brussels

suspect in belgian killing

French police arrested Friday in Marseille a man suspected of killing four people in the Jewish Museum in Brussels (Belgium) on May 24. The arrested, a French citizen born 29 Roubaix (North), identified as Mehdi Nemmouche, carrying a Kalashnikov rifle and a loaded revolver that fits the characteristics of the material used in the attack […]

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