A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets expired Sunday as planned under its nuclear deal with world powers, despite objections from the United States.
While insisting it (...)
Yemen's warring sides completed a major, U.N.-brokered prisoner swap on Friday, officials said, a development that could revive the country's stalled peace process after more than five years of grinding conflict.
This week's prisoner release, the (...)
Having spent 20 years of his life in a Kenyan refugee camp and now living in Nairobi, Mohamed anxiously describes the situation of refugees living in the camp during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The World Health Organisation [WHO] keeps saying wash your (...)
A historical moment is a turning point between two different eras. The world finds itself between different outlooks and trends, a world that has passed and one that yet to come. It is a time when numerous variables interweave to create the “perfect (...)
While recently released Hillary Clinton e-mails triggered uproar across Arab social media because of their revelations about the Barak Obama administration's role in manufacturing the “Arab Spring”, their impact in the US seems quite muted. This is (...)
The largely Shia-dominated Azerbaijan is backed by Turkey in its war with Armenia. The Shia Islamic Republic of Iran favours Armenia and Sunni Arab nations seem to tilt towards the mostly Christian nation in the current conflict in the Caucasus.
On (...)
The Saudi-led coalition said on Saturday it intercepted and destroyed two explosive-laden drones launched towards Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis.
There was no comment from the Houthi movement about the two incidents reported by the (...)
A top U.N. official Thursday condemned recent clashes in Yemen's strategic port city of Hodeida, which have left dozens killed and wounded, urging the country's warring parties to immediately stop the fighting.
Since Saturday, clashes have flared up (...)
Fierce clashes in Yemen's strategic port city of Hodeida between government forces and Houthi rebels continued for the fifth straight day Wednesday, leaving 52 people dead, including civilians, Yemeni officials said.
The fighting has raged in the (...)
The Saudi-Led coalition fighting in Yemen foiled an "imminent terrorist attack" by Iran-aligned Houthis in the south of the Red Sea, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV said on Monday.
The coalition discovered and destroyed a remotely-controlled (...)
Whereas Democratic Party supporters in the US criticise US President Donald Trump for using a “rhetoric of fear” when he tells voters that he is the only one protecting the American Dream against the threat of chaos, they themselves also tend to use (...)
The crisis surrounding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is a product of the manipulations of the world powers, Ethiopia's regional ambitions, and Egyptian miscalculations and mistakes.
The GERD crisis and other Nile Basin controversies (...)
At a time of transformation and slow reconstruction of the Middle East we have known for the last seven decades, a great Arab statesman left us. On Tuesday, 29 September, Sheikh Al-Sabah Jaber Al-Sabah, the former ruler of Kuwait from January 2006, (...)
قال وزير الخارجية الأمريكي مايك بومبيو، إنه ناقش مع وزير الخارجية السعودي فيصل بن فرحان، اتفاقيات أبراهام للسلام ما بين البحرين والإمارات وإسرائيل.
وأضاف بومبيو، في تغريدة له عبر موقع التواصل الاجتماعي «تويتر»، صباح الثلاثاء، أنه شكر نظيره السعودي (...)
The United Nations hailed the agreement in Glion, Switzerland, on Sunday for a prisoner exchange between the warring factions in Yemen as a significant breakthrough, saying that it wanted to build on this positive development to bring about a (...)
Egypt marked the 50th anniversary of the death of president Gamal Abdel-Nasser on Monday with a plethora of television channels, newspapers and magazines reviewing his policies and raising the question of whether his legacy is still relevant (...)
Egypt has praised the prisoner swap agreement signed between the Yemeni government and the Houthi rebel group during talk held in Geneva, a statement by the foreign ministry said on Monday.
Yemen's warring parties have agreed to exchange some 1,000 (...)
The G20 leaders summit will be held virtually on Nov. 21-22, Saudi Arabia said on Monday, as the COVID-19 pandemic thwarted Riyadh's hopes of hosting the gathering in the kingdom to boost its international standing.
Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil (...)
A group of prominent Facebook critics, including one of the social network's early investors and a journalist facing jail time in the Philippines, are launching their version of an ``oversight board'' to rival the company's own.
The group says (...)
Yemen's embattled and exiled president on Thursday urged his government's rival, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, to stop impeding the flow of urgently needed humanitarian aid.
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi's plea aired more than a week after an (...)
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,
Mr. President,
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande for his remarkable efforts as the President of the last session of the UN General Assembly, wishing you (...)
After the last Russo-Turkish agreement on arrangements in Idlib and northeastern Syria, extremist organisations, especially those affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) group, began to escalate attacks against Turkish and Russian (...)
In the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Mohammed al-Ghazaaly's kidney dialysis machine often cuts out due to an escalating fuel shortage in the country's north.
When the electricity generator runs out of diesel, nurse Mohammed al-Hattamy turns the (...)
Egypt condemned “in the strongest terms” an attack on Saudi Arabia's southern Jizan region by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels, a statement by the foreign ministry read on Saturday.
The foreign ministry stressed Egypt's solidarity with Saudi Arabia (...)
A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said it had intercepted and destroyed an explosive drone launched towards the kingdom on Thursday.
In a statement published on Saudi state news agency SPA, a spokesman for the coalition said the Iran-aligned (...)
