RIYADH: Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan participated in an Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Tuesday. During the meeting, ministers discussed joint Arab action to intensify coordination on the Palestinian issue and other matters of concern. Regional and international developments were also discussed at the meeting that was attended by a…
Muscat: The Sultanate of Oman’s Foreign Ministry has expressed its strong condemnation and denunciation of the Israeli bombing that targeted the Masyaf area in Hama Governorate and claimed the lives of dozens of Syrians. The Sultanate of Oman recalls the need for the international community to put a definitive end to these aggressive practices by Israel,…
AL-MUKALLA: US and UK jets struck Houthi targets in Yemen’s western province of Hodeidah on Monday, the second wave of strikes on Houthi-held territory in less than 48 hours. The Houthi-run Al-Masirah channel reported that US and UK aircraft carried out one strike on the Al-Jabanah region of Hodeidah but provided no information on the targeted…
KHIRBET ZANUTA: An entire Palestinian community fled their tiny West Bank village last fall after repeated threats from Israeli settlers with a history of violence. Then, in a rare endorsement of Palestinian land rights, Israel’s highest court ruled this summer the displaced residents of Khirbet Zanuta were entitled to return under the protection of Israeli…
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip: This week, when they would normally be going back to school, the Qudeh family’s children stumbled with armfuls of rubble they collected from a destroyed building to sell for use in building graves in the cemetery that is now their home in southern Gaza.“Anyone our age in other countries is studying…
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s aid agency KSrelief launched a volunteer medical program in Turkiye and Yemen reported state news agency SPA on Thursday.In Turkiye, the program was for adult and pediatric orthopedic surgery in the provinces of Gaziantep and Hatay which ran from Aug. 24 until Aug. 31. It involved 28 volunteers as part of the…
RIYADH: Three rare breeding colonies of the Eurasian Griffon vultures have been discovered at the Prince Mohammed bin Salman Royal Reserve, the royal reserve’s authority has announced. The Griffon vultures, listed as Endangered in the Middle East, and other vulture species globally are facing a serious conservation crisis and the discovery was welcomed in time…
LONDON: Palestinian journalist Mohamed Abd Rabbo was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday in the Nuseirat camp, located in central Gaza. His sister, Sumaya, was also killed in the attack. Abd Rabbo, who worked for Al-Manara Media Co., is the latest victim in a growing list of Palestinian journalists killed since the start of…
RIYADH: The Kingdom’s aid agency KSrelief has provided more than 5.6 million liters of water to vulnerable people in the Al-Khawkhah directorate of Hodeidah, Yemen, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Friday. The agency pumped 2.79 million liters of drinking water and 2.85 million liters of non-potable water into local tanks in July, the report…
KUWAIT/GAZA: Kuwait on Tuesday voiced condemnation and denunciation of recent remarks by a Zionist occupation minister calling for establishing a synagogue at Al-Aqsa Mosque in a bid to wipe out the religious identity and legal status of the holy site. Zionist National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir had told Army Radio that if it were possible,…
