In a heartfelt gesture of solidarity, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman expressed their deepest condolences to the Emir of Kuwait on Monday following the passing of Sheikh
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday during Abbas’ visit to Russia. Arriving on Monday, Abbas aims to discuss the ongoing Gaza conflict with
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Saudi Arabia has firmly aligned itself with the recent joint statement made by President Joe Biden of the United States, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt, and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani,
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:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a
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:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called Saudi’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a “very reliable partner with whom you can reach agreements, and can be certain that those agreements will be honored,” in an interview with Bloomberg on Friday. The
The Yemeni army and its allies in the Popular Resistance committees on Saturday reached the outskirts ona route linking the capital Sanaa and Marib city after taking control of the mountains and highlands overlooking the region, military sources said. The
Turkish aid for the Gaza Strip has been sent from the country’s southern coast for the second time since relations were normalized between Israel and Ankara in June, a Turkish official said Saturday. A humanitarian aid ship bound for southern
Iraq’s prominent Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday urged government employees to wage a two-day general strike across the country starting Sunday over what he described as the government dragging its feet over moves to curb corruption. In a statement
Libya has shipped the last of its chemical weapons stocks out of the country on a Danish vessel, under a UN-backed plan to eliminate the arsenal, officials said Tuesday. A senior security official told AFP the stocks were shipped to
The UN Security Council failed to agree Tuesday on whether Syria merited sanctions over the use of chemical weapons, with Russia questioning the evidence from an independent commission that found government forces were behind at least two such attacks. Council
Israel’s military says its forces demolished the home of a Palestinian involved in the ambush of a family car in the West Bank that killed an Israeli and wounded his wife and two of their children. It said the residence
President Mahmud Abbas’s office said Monday the Palestinians are ready to participate in any peace initiative aimed at a “comprehensive and fair solution”, following speculation of a meeting organised by Russia. “We are ready to participate in any regional or
Iraq has put out fires at four oil wells in the oil-producing region of Qayyara which Iraqi forces recaptured from ISIS last week, Reuters reported the oil ministry as saying on Monday. “Work is underway to put out flames in
Iraq’s foreign ministry said a delegation of Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthis arrived on Monday in Baghdad to discuss the possibility of recognition to the recently-established political council, the ministry said on its website. The delegation – headed by the Houthis’ spokesman,
Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq Monday, as Ankara pressed its military operation against ISIS militants and a Syrian Kurdish militia in neighboring Syria, state media said. Turkish air force jets launched strikes between 09:30 and 10:55
More than 70 tents were destroyed by fire on Monday in the refugee camp of Yahayawa, near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, but no one was injured, the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR said. The ministry of displacement and
Former French president Nicholas Sarkozy said on Monday he would change the country’s constitution to ban full-body burkini swimsuits if he is re-elected to his former role in a vote next April. Positioning himself as a defender of French values
Iran’s military detected a US drone entering Iranian airspace on Monday and warned it toleave, which it subsequently did, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported. “Iran’s army air defence detected and warned an American drone in the eastern airspace of the
Turkey-backed Syrian rebels captured two villages from forces allied to the Kurdish-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Observatory said the SDF-allied Jarablus Military Council fighters had withdrawn from
Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Pakistan on to kick of an Asian trip that will see him visit China and Japan as well. The Saudi royal met with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday night
Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday ruled that a national charged with selling US defense equipment to Iran can be extradited to the United States, the justice ministry said. It said in a statement that Arye Eliyahu “Eli” Cohen should be
Yemen’s Houthi-run governing council said on Sunday it was ready to restart peace talks with the country’s exiled government provided a Saudi-led coalition stopped attacking and besieging Houthi-held territories. UN-sponsored negotiations to end 18 months of fighting in the impoverished
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