Saudi authorities have begun investigating a fire that hit Jazan General Hospital in southern Saudi Arabia and led to the death of at least 24 people and left 141 injured. The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques received condolences from many leaders of Gulf and Arab countries after the accident. From
Minister of Foreign Affairs Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa participated in the Arab League Council’s ministerial-level meeting during an extraordinary session held at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Arab League in Cairo. He stated that the Islamic Coalition formed recently by
In order to limit violence in Syria and explore ways to encourage a military coup, former and current US officials have revealed that the United States made secret calls with members of President Bashar Assad’s government at the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011. American intelligence offici
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud inaugurated the works of the 4th year of the 6th session of the Consultative Council at the Council’s headquarters in Riyadh. His speech reviewed the State’s internal and external policy and its achievements. King Sa
Syrian Opposition sources mentioned that the underlying conflict between Moscow and Tehran over Syria was revealed last month by Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution of Iran. He noted that the conflict has begun escalating; pointing
The Syrian tragedy is truly unique and cannot be compared to others; it had revealed masks exposing truths covered up and hidden beneath the Arab stage of politics. Moreover, Syria’s battlefield was the place where a Hezbollah paramount was taken down quietly without creating a buzz or a sign of nat
U.S. officials strongly denied that the Mahmood family was targeted based on their religion, but the case prompted America’s largest Muslim advocacy organization to call for an investigation. Moreover, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency mentioned in a statement that the law lists over 60 othe
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, has conveyed the internal and external Saudi political road map in his speech at the Consultative Council on Wednesday Dec.23 while stressing on the Saudi political standards that are based on reason and wisdom. The King submitted a worki
The General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council condemned the kidnapping of Qatari citizens in southern Iraq last week in a statement yesterday, and demanded that the “Iraqi government shoulder its international legal responsibilities and take adequate measures to guarantee the safety of tho
“You haven’t been paying the teachers for months and now you have stopped paying the salaries of the military as well”. This is how Islamic Majlis member Bahram Biravand addressed President Hasan Rouhani the other day. The subtext of the statement is that while you can send teachers to prison when t
Whilst Saudis wait with great interest for the royal speech to be delivered by the Custodian of the two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz to mark the opening of the fourth year of the sixth session of the Consultative Assembly in which he will discuss Saudi Arabia’s domestic and foreign policy,
The World Bank’s Corporate Secretary Mahmoud Mohieldin expects that gulf oil exporting countries will be affected by the decline in oil prices, welcoming reform measures taken by these countries which include general monetary policies and diversification of income sources. In an interview with
French sources said that Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Judeh was assigned by his country to prepare a report that lists active terrorist organizations and groups in Syria. Judeh explained to his peers that the report actually includes three categories: the first one titled “Red”
The Center for Strategic and International Studies released a statistical study that included 7 million tweets in Arabic, which in turn portrayed the image of social networking as an arena employed for means of egging sectarian conflict and waging verbal wars among the people with Twitter accounts.
The UN Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed yesterday called on the international community to intervene in support of peace in Yemen and acknowledged the existence of large obstacles including the lack of trust between the conflicting parties which are preventing the achievement of a si
I enjoyed reading the book “Aramco TV” by Dr Abdullah Al-Madani, a study of the first Arabic language TV channel in the Gulf. The Arab American Oil Company (Aramco) has left a positive mark on many aspects of life in this region, and television is one of them. This is despite there being many who [&
Iraq’s foreign minister denied Tuesday that his government had anything to do with the kidnapping of a group of Qatari hunters in the south of the country this month. A large group of unidentified armed men abducted at least 26 Qataris from their desert hunting camp near the Saudi border last
Russia will start constructing two nuclear reactors in Iran next week, as Tehran seeks to reduce its reliance on oil and gas with 20 facilities over the coming years, an official said Tuesday. The start of construction follows a historic deal between Iran and world powers in July that ends a decade-
Egypt has hired British consultancy Control Risks to help boost airport security, almost two months after a Russian airliner crashed in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 224 people. Moscow blamed a bomb onboard. CEO Andreas Carleton-Smith says Tuesday that the company’s objective is to make sure Eg
In recent months ISIS fronts in Syria and Iraq have taken a defensive turn, after several strikes drained its ranks already exhausted by fighting on multiple fronts, according to analysts. The extremist organization suffered a number of field losses in both Iraq and Syria, but despite this ISIS has
