Month: August 2019

Saudi Arabia break ups oil ministry

Saudi Arabia created a new ministry for industry and mineral resources, separating it from the kingdom’s colossal energy ministry, and replaced the powerful head of the royal court, in a series of royal orders issued late on Friday. Bandar Alkhorayef, an investor and industrialist plucked from the private sector, was named to head the new […]

UAE defies US sanctions at Syrian trade fair

A delegation of at least 40 businessmen from the United Arab Emirates attended a state-backed trade fair in Syria’s capital, defying U.S. warnings against doing business with the government and associates of President Bashar al-Assad. The UAE, one of Washington’s main regional allies, has started to forge closer ties with Damascus to counter the influence […]

Reinforcements on Israeli side of Lebanese border

Israel’s military said on Saturday it had ordered extra forces to deploy its northern command as tensions remained high with Lebanon’s heavily armed Shi’ite movement Hezbollah. The army said its “ground forces, air, navy and intelligence forces improved their preparedness for various scenarios in the northern command area.” It said the measures had been taken […]

Ceasefire declared in Idlib after devastation

Syria’s Idlib region saw a lull in air raids that have been pounding the insurgent territory, a monitor and rebel official said on Saturday, after the government said it was ceasing fire. It is the second such truce declared this month in Idlib, which is in Syria’s northwest corner - the only major swathe of […]

Infighting among Yemen's Arab coalition

Southern Yemeni separatists said they arrested dozens of government loyalists in Aden on Saturday after President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s forces withdrew from the port city following air strikes by the United Arab Emirates. The outbreak of hostilities between Yemen’s Saudi-backed government and the UAE-backed separatists is the latest twist in a multi-faceted war in Yemen […]

Sirhan Sirhan stabbed in California prison

Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian refugee found guilty of shooting U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy to death in 1968, was wounded in a stabbing at a California prison on Friday, according to media reports. Celebrity website TMZ, citing unnamed sources, was first to report that Sirhan, 75, had been stabbed. Replying to a request for […]

Banned Iranian tanker headed to Lebanon

Turkey said on Friday that an Iranian tanker at the center of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran was headed to Lebanon after changing course several times, although Beirut said it was not informed of the plan. According to Refinitiv tracking data, the Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, made a U-turn on Friday and […]

Saudi Aramco not keen on New York IPO

The board of Saudi Aramco has determined that listing the state energy giant in New York would carry too many legal risks to make it a realistic option, five sources said, although they said a final decision lay with Saudi Arabia's crown prince. New York was the exchange favored by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman […]

US sanctions Lebanese bank for Hezbullah connection

The United States on Thursday sanctioned Lebanon-based Jammal Trust Bank SAL and its subsidiaries for allegedly facilitating the financial activities of Hezbollah, according to the Treasury Department, which said the bank funnels money to the families of suicide bombers. The United States is determined to cut off support in Lebanon for the group, Secretary of […]

Israel charges Iran with building missile facility in Lebanon

Israel accused Iran on Thursday of stepping up efforts to provide the Hezbollah militia with precision-guided missile production facilities, a warning to Beirut that Israeli counter-strikes could escalate. “Dir balak,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in public remarks directed at Lebanon, using the Arabic for “watch out”. Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which last fought a […]

Turkey will swallow Syria behind the scenes of negotiations

By Damir Nazarov While Erdogan seeks to hold meetings with Putin and sometimes Rouhani in relation to Syria every two months, the Turkish occupants are actively pursuing a policy of assimilation of the Syrian cities captured during two interventions. For example, on the twelfth of February, the deputy governor of the Turkish province Kilis arrived […]

Scientists of the world offer their assistance to the President of Uzbekistan

Participants of the World Society for the Study, Preservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage of Uzbekistan expressed their willingness to help the President of Uzbekistan in his reforms in the field of culture. The culmination of the Cultural Heritage Week “Uzbekistan – the Crossroads of Great Roads and Civilizations: Empires, Religions, Cultures” became the adoption […]

Hotuhis launch new missile attack on Saudis

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis attacked Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport with a cruise missile on Wednesday, the group’s military spokesman said in a tweet. Spokesman Yahya Saria said the missile targeted plane hangars and led to air traffic being halted at the airport. The Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthis in Yemen said a “hostile projectile” fired by the […]

Erdogan refuses US dithering on Syria zone

President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey’s deal with the United States to set up a “safe zone” in northeast Syria was a correct step and that Ankara would not let Washington delay the plan, CNN Turk reported on Thursday. Ankara revealed last weekend that a joint operations center for the proposed zone along Syria’s northeastern border […]

Kashmir discussed at the UN Security Council after 50 years

Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai August 28, 2019. “The position of the United Nations on this region (Kashmir) is governed by the Charter of the United Nations and applicable Security Council resolutions.” Mr. Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations, August 8, 2019. India, disregarding what Secretary General said and ignoring all norms of […]

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