Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment

Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment

:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »

Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity

Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity

:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »

Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism

Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism

:: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of More »

Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts

Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts

:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities are a test of international resolve in the face of destructive acts that More »

Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’

Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’

:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities represented a “dangerous escalation not only toward the Kingdom but also the entire world.” The Crown More »

 

Category Archives: Russia

Written document to consolidate Syria cease-fire during Astana meet

Russian news agency ‘Interfax’ reported late Tuesday that a source involved in the Astana meeting said there are expectations of a document to be signed during negotiations for the implementation of a cease-fire in all parts of Syria. The source

Damascus was 2-3 weeks from falling when Russia intervened: Lavrov

The Syrian capital of Damascus was two to three weeks away from falling to terrorists when Russia intervened in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a news conference on Tuesday. He added that

Russia, Turkey agree to coordinate strikes

Russia and Turkey have signed an agreement spelling out mechanisms to “coordinate” their air forces in Syria when conducting strikes “on terrorist targets,” the Russian defense ministry said Thursday. Delegations from the two countries, which last month brokered a ceasefire

Russian military team in Libya to meet Haftar, Saleh Issa

Russian military delegation arrived on Wednesday in Libya’s port city of Tobruk to meet Khalifa Haftar, the Commander-in-Chief of the National Army of the House of Representatives in Tobruk, as well as the President of the Libyan House of Representatives

Russia, Turkey urge Syrian ceasefire holds

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu agreed on Tuesday on the need to observe a ceasefire in Syria while continuing to fight “terrorist groups”, Russia’s foreign ministry said. Lavrov and Cavusoglu, who spoke by telephone,

US blacklists Putin ally and alleged spy killers

The United States on Monday blacklisted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reputed top enforcer and two more Russians alleged to have fatally poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko in London a decade ago. The Treasury added the prosecutor and senior investigator Alexander Bastrykin

‘Putin ordered hacking to help Trump in election’

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign of hacking and media manipulation aimed at undermining the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton and boosting Donald Trump, US intelligence said in a report Friday. The campaign first aimed at damaging a potential

Russia announces reductions in its forces in Syria

Russia says it is withdrawing its aircraft carrier and some other warships from the waters off Syria as the first step in drawing down forces in Syria. Russian General Staff chief Gen. Valery Gerasimov said on Friday that the Admiral

Railway stations evacuated in Moscow after anonymous bomb threat

Police in Moscow have evacuated almost 3,000 people from three different railway stations after receiving an anonymous bomb threat, Russian news agencies reported on Monday. The TASS news agency said police planned to use sniffer dogs to check the Kazansky,

Putin, Rowhani welcome Aleppo ‘victory’

Iran’s President Hassan Rowhani and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin welcomed the “Syrian army’s victory against the terrorists in Aleppo” during a late-night phone call, Iranian media reported on Sunday. “The Syrian army’s victory sends a message that the terrorists

US sanctions on six Syrian ministers and Russian bankers

The US government imposed sanctions on Syrian and Russian figures “in response to the violence perpetrated by the Syrian regime led by Bashar al-Assad.” The statement issued by the US Treasury Department to 9 Russian figures from bank, thus prohibiting

Russian military plane ‘carrying 91’ crashes

A Russian Defence Ministry TU-154 plane that had disappeared from radar over the Black Sea with 91 people on board has crashed, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday, citing an unidentified source. A rescue team had found the crash

Putin: Assad, Iran, Turkey agree to Syria talks

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia, Iran, Turkey and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had all agreed that the Kazakh capital of Astana should be the venue for new Syrian peace negotiations. Russia, Iran and Turkey held talks in

Russian military aircraft disappears from radar in Sochi

Military Tu-154 aircraft

Russian air traffic controllers have lost contact with a Tu-154 airliner with 91 people on board, which disappeared from radar shortly after take-off in Sochi, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed in a statement. Ninety-one people were on board the aircraft,

Murdered envoy’s family weep over coffin in Moscow

The widow and mother of Russian ambassador, Andrei Karlov, broke down in tears as his body was returned to his homeland after he was gunned down in Ankara on Monday, a newspaper report has revealed. His mother Maria also struggled

Russia: ISIS ‘emir’ killed in north Caucasus

Russia’s FSB security service said Sunday it had killed an “emir” of the ISIS group in the North Caucasus along with four other militants in a raid in the Dagestan region. The FSB said in a statement that “among the

Russia: No aim at stopping Aleppo air strikes

Russia will continue its operations in eastern Aleppo and will rescue the Syrian city from terrorists, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday during a visit to Turkey. Speaking at a joint press conference after a meeting with his

Drama over Swiss skies

Russia has sought an explanation from Switzerland after Swiss fighter jets flew close to a Russian government airliner en route to Peru for the APEC summit. Three Swiss F/A 18 jets on Friday came close to the aeroplane carrying Russian

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