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By Mohamed al-Samei SANA’A (AA) A Saudi-led coalition airstrike has killed 26 people in Yemen’s northern Saada province, the Ansar Allah [Houthi] group, medics and a Reuters witness claimed Wednesday. The Houthi-run Saba news agency, citing a security source, said the raid targeted a small hotel in a marketplace in Sahar district in the province. […]

23rd Oct 2017

Iraq, Saudi Arabia agree to resolve differences

By Ahmed al-Masri, Murat Tan, Afra Aksoy and Ramazan Turgut RIYADH (AA) Saudi Arabia and Iraq agreed to resolve differences and work together to boost trade on Sunday, after their leaders met for the first: time since last June, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. According to a joint statement issued by the […]

8th Oct 2017

Saudi Arabia: 2 Saudi guards killed in Jeddah gun attack

By Ahmed al-Masry DOHA (AA): Saudi authorities Saturday evening confirmed reports that an attack near the royal palace in Jeddah had been foiled Saturday by security forces, leaving two guards and the attacker dead. The spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry said two Saudi security personnel were killed and another three wounded in an […]

26th Sep 2017

US: Trump’s new immigration ban does not include Saudi Arabia

By Michael Hernandez WASHINGTON (AA): Saudi Arabia was excluded from the Donald Trump administration’s most recent effort to curb international immigration over security concerns because Riyadh met U.S.-mandated criteria, the White House said Monday. Saudi Arabia was home to 15 of the 19 Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers, and after the U.S. unveiled Trump’s third […]

1st Sep 2017

Saudi Arabia: Muslim pilgrims ascend Mount Arafat in Hajj climax

By Ali Abo Rezeg (AA): Nearly two million Muslims from around the world Thursday ascended Mount Arafat, near the holy city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia, to mark the climax of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Pilgrims flocked to Arafat Thursday morning after spending a night of meditation and introspection in the tent city of […]

16th Aug 2017

Saudi Arabia: 54 pilgrims die in Makkah before Hajj

By Fares Karam RIYADH (AA): At least 54 Muslim pilgrims have died so far in Saudi Arabia’s city of Makkah in advance of this year’s annual Hajj pilgrimage, which is set to begin on Aug. 30, Saudi authorities announced Tuesday. The authorities, however, have yet to provide reasons for the pilgrims’ deaths, or their […]

8th Aug 2017

Yemen: More than 200 children killed in 2017

By Ali Oweida MAARIB, Yemen (AA): More than 200 children have been killed in war-battered Yemen this year, a UN official said Monday. “In 2017, 201 children killed in Yemen: 152 boys and 49 girls,” Meritxell Relano, UNICEF Resident Representative in Yemen, said on Twitter. She said 347 Yemeni children were maimed, including 113 […]

27th Jul 2017

Saudi soldier killed near Yemen border

By Zakaria al-Kamali SANA’A (AA): Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday the death of one of its soldiers in clashes with Houthi [Ansar Allah] rebels near its southern border with Yemen. “The dead soldier belonged to ground forces as he was killed at the southern border of Jazan, which has seen battles with Houthis for more […]

5th Jul 2017

Yemen: 10mn Yemeni children in need of assistance: UNICEF

By Mohamed al-Samei SANAA, Yemen (AA): Some 10 million children in Yemen are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations children’s fund (UNICEF). In a statement posted on its official Facebook page, UNICEF’s Yemen office said that most children in Yemen lacked basic medical care, adequate nutrition, fresh drinking water, […]

24th Jun 2017

Saudi Arabia: Security forces foil terror plot in Makkah

By Ramazan Turgut RIYADH (AA): A terror plot that targeted the Grand Mosque in Makkah was foiled Friday, according to interior ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki. A security spokesman said that one of the sites was in the province of Jeddah, and the two others were in Makkah. The first was in the neighborhood of […]

13th Jun 2017

UK urges Gulf nations to de-escalate tensions

LONDON (AA): British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson Monday urged the Gulf nations to de-escalate ongoing regional tensions through dialogue. The foreign secretary’s call for dialogue came following a meeting with his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in London. Johnson will also meet his counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab […]

12th Jun 2017

Saudi Arabia bans books by al-Qaradawi

By Ramazan Turgut RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AA): Saudi Arabian education minister Sunday urged the removal of the books by the chairman International Union of Muslim Scholars from education areas. The statement issued by Saudi Arabian Education Ministry under the signature of minister Ahmed Bin Mohammed Al-Issa said all books by Yousef al-Qaradawi, the chairman […]

8th Jun 2017

Kuwaiti emir to mediate diplomatic row between Qatar & Arab states

By Mohamed Abdul-Ghaffar KUWAIT (AA): Emir Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah on Wednesday set out for Dubai in hopes of containing an unprecedented diplomatic row between Qatar and a handful of other Arab states, according to the official Kuwait News Agency. The emir is joined on his trip by Foreign Minister Sabah al-Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah […]

8th Jun 2017

Iran: Iranian Guard accuse Saudi Arabia, US behind terror attacks, 12 killed, 42 injured

By Mustafa Melih Ahishali TEHRAN, Iran (AA): Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps accused Saudi Arabia and the United States of being responsible for Wednesday’s deadly terrorist attacks on the parliament building and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini shrine. “The world public, especially Iran, finds this terrorist attack — which happened a week after the meeting of the […]

5th Jun 2017

Saudi Arabia: 4 Gulf countries sever diplomatic ties with Qatar

By Ramazan Turgut RIYAD, Saudi Arabia (AA, The Musilm News, Agencies): Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have joined Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in cutting ties with Qatar, adding fuel to a diplomatic dispute in the Gulf region. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain were the first to sever all diplomatic ties with Qatar, citing national […]

22nd May 2017

Palestine: Hamas hits back at Trump’s ‘terrorist’ epithet, as Muslim leaders acquiesce

By Gulsen Topcu GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA): Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump for mentioning the group’s name alongside al-Qaeda and Daesh during his speech in Saudi Arabia on Sunday. “Trump’s description of Hamas as terrorist means a bias in favor of Israel and having no objection for […]

13th May 2017

Saudi Arabia: 2 killed in Qatif terror attack

Zeynep Tufekci RIYADH (AA): A 2-year-old child and a Pakistani national were killed in a terror attack in the eastern Qatif province, the Interior Ministry said late Friday. The attack Thursday also injured six Saudi citizens and four foreign nationals, including two Pakistanis, one Indian and one Sudanese. Four policemen were also suffered injuries. […]

1st May 2017

Saudi Arabia: 46 suspects arrested over Prophet’s mosque suicide attack

By Ahmed al-Masri JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AA): Saudi Arabia said Sunday it had arrested 46 members of a terrorist cell in neighborhood of Al-Harazat in Jeddah responsible for a suicide bombing on the Prophet’s Mosque in the holy city of Madinah last year. Four security personnel were killed when a bomber blew up himself […]

26th Feb 2017

Iraq: Saudi FM arrives in Baghdad for surprise visit

By Ali Jawad BAGHDAD (AA): Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir arrived in Baghdad, Iraq Saturday on an unscheduled visit, according to an Iraqi official. Al-Jubeir is leading an official delegation for talks with Iraqi officials, the Foreign Ministry official said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media. The visit […]

11th Feb 2017

Yemen: Houthis manufacturing drones, long range missiles

By Zakaria al-Kamaali SANA’A, Yemen (AA): The leader of Yemen’s Houthi group said Friday that it had begun manufacturing unmanned aerial drones and surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). In a statement broadcast by Yemen’s Houthi-run Al-Maseera television channel, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said the group was now “manufacturing artillery shells and air defenses”. These, he said, included surface-to-air […]

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