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 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’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 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 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 »
Tag Archives: Algeria
Algeria leader replaces powerful intelligence chief
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has replaced his powerful intelligence chief, a security source said on Sunday, in the latest move in a shake-up of the country’s security forces. General Mohamed Mediene, better known as Toufik, had held the post for
Algeria says 102 Islamists killed, captured or repented
More than 100 armed Islamists have been killed, captured or have repented in Algeria in the first half of this year, the defence ministry said Tuesday. A statement, carried by national news agency APS, did not give a breakdown of
Libyan group denies death of Algerian militant
Libyan militant group Ansar al-Sharia denied on Tuesday that the Al-Qaeda-linked mastermind of a deadly 2013 siege at an Algerian gas plant had been killed in a US air strike. The group named seven people it said were killed in
Loyalist of Algeria’s Bouteflika named chief of ruling coalition party
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s cabinet director and loyal backer Ahmed Ouyahia was elected as the new leader of one of the two ruling parties on Wednesday, confirming his status of potential presidential successor. Speculation over Bouteflika’s health since he suffered
Algeria arrests importers, bank officials in graft crackdown
Algerian authorities have arrested 17 people including importers and bank officials as the country tightens control on imports and corruption to help counter the effect of low world oil prices, a judicial source and official media said on Sunday. Security
Sahara Islamist leader Belmokhtar dismisses ISIS pledge: report
Veteran Algerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar has rejected a pledge of allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) by the co-founder of his al-Mourabitoun Islamist group, revealing a rift in one of the Sahara’s most dangerous militant groups. Last
Algeria’s Bouteflika changes finance, interior ministers
Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Thursday named new ministers for finance and interior in a cabinet reshuffle, but kept Energy Minister Youcef Yousfi and Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal in their posts, private local channel Ennahar TV said. The presidency did
Mauritania, Algeria in diplomatic crisis over drugs article
Mauritania and Algeria were embroiled in a diplomatic row Monday after the tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats over a contentious news article on drugs being smuggled from Morocco. Mauritanian online news portal Al-Bayan has angered the authorities in Nouakchott by publishing
Algeria evacuates 160 citizens from Yemen
Algeria evacuated 160 of its citizens from war-torn Yemen on Saturday as a Saudi-led coalition continued a bombing campaign against rebel targets in the Arabian peninsula, national news agency APS reported. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika called for the operation after monitoring
Terrorist’ mine kills soldier in west Tunisia
A Tunisian soldier was killed and two others injured Sunday when their vehicle hit a landmine “planted by terrorist elements” in a mountainous western region near the Algerian border, the defense ministry said. “A mine exploded under their vehicle,” ministry
Algerian army kills three militants near capital
Algerian soldiers killed three Islamist militants and seized guns and explosives southwest of the Algerian capital on Tuesday, the defense ministry said. “During anti-terrorist operations, an army unit killed three terrorists today after an attempted ambush in the Tagrara area”
Four Tunisian police killed in ‘terrorist’ attack
Four Tunisian police were killed on Tuesday in what the government labelled a “terrorist attack” in a region known as the base for the country’s most dangerous Islamist group. “On February 18, following a terrorist attack in Boulaaba in the
EU seeks Mideast anti-terror coordination
The European Union will in the coming weeks seek to launch anti-terrorism projects with a number of Arab nations and Turkey following the deadly attacks in Paris, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Monday. “We are looking at
Blast at Algerian embassy in Libya wounds five
A blast near the Algerian Embassy in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, wounded five people on Saturday, an Al Arabiya correspondent reported. AFP quoted an official who works for a unit tasked with protecting embassies as saying the attack in central
Veteran Algerian al-Qaeda militant hails Paris killings
Veteran Algerian militant and former al-Qaeda fighter Mokhtar Belmokhtar praised a deadly assault on a French satirical newspaper and urged Muslims in the West to carry out similar attacks, a monitoring service said on Monday. In a statement distributed on
Islamist call for Algerian author’s death stirs outrage
An Islamist call for author Kamel Daoud to be condemned to death for alleged apostasy has stirred outrage in Algeria, reviving dark memories of the country’s brutal civil war. Salafist activist Abdelfatah Hamadache Ziraoui has called on his Facebook page
Islamist militants ‘behead’ Tunisian policeman
An off-duty Tunisian policeman was beheaded by Islamist militants after he was kidnapped near the Algerian border late on Sunday, officials said on Monday. The policeman was allegedly seized along with his brother by 10 militants who attacked the car
Minister: Algerian army kills suspect in Frenchman’s beheading
Algerian Justice Minister Tayeb Louh said on Wednesday that the army last month killed a jihadist suspected of taking part in the beheading of Frenchman Herve Gourdel. “One of the suspects was eliminated in October by the army during an
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