US Defense Secretary Mark Esper has paid an unannounced visit to Baghdad for high-level talks, days after Washington withdrew its military forces from Syria into Iraq. Esper is expected to address the matter in meetings with Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi as well as his Iraqi counterpart, Najah Hassan Ali al-Shammari, ...
Mount Lebanon State Prosecutor, Judge Ghada Aoun, has pressed charges against former prime minister Najib Mikati and his son (Maher Mikati) and brother (Taha Mikati), as well as against Bank Audi, for illicit enrichment, and referred them before the first investigative judge, National News Agency correspondent reported on Wednesday.
