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 »
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10 dead, 9 others hurt in Mali army convoy ambush
:: Witnesses say at least 10 Malian soldiers have been killed and nine others wounded in an ambush on a military convoy in central Mali. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Diarran Kone said the convoy was hit Tuesday between the towns
Merkel in Africa on trip aimed at stemming migrant flows
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday warned against Africa suffering from a “brain drain” as she arrived on a three-day tour of the continent focused on security and stemming the migrant influx to Europe. Merkel also underscored the need to
Two arrested in Mali over Ivory Coast resort attack
Two Malians have been arrested in the north of the country over a deadly attack on a beach resort in Ivory Coast claimed by an Al-Qaeda group, security sources said Sunday. The two were arrested on Friday and Saturday after
Two U.N. soldiers killed in Mali attack
Two United Nations peacekeepers were killed and some 30 wounded Friday when suspected Islamists attacked their base at Kidal in restive northeastern Mali, U.N. sources said. “Our camp at Kidal was attacked by terrorists early Friday morning. We fought back
Rocket attack on UN base in Mali kills 3, injures 20
Two UN peacekeepers and a civilian contractor were killed in a rocket attack Saturday on a UN base in northeast Mali, a week after a deadly siege at a Bamako hotel claimed by jihadists. “Our camp in Kidal was attacked
Isn’t preserving EU values the best answer to terrorism?
By : Yossi Mekelberg Tragedies can either tear societies apart or bring them closer together. At times when divinity is employed to justify heinous crimes against innocent people, the choice is left to mortals. Should the response be vengeful, or
Mali says it arrests two suspects linked to Bamako hotel attack
Mali authorities arrested two people on Thursday suspected of links to an attack on a luxury hotel in the capital that killed 20 people, the security ministry said. At least two armed men launched a dawn raid on the Radisson
Mali deepens probe into deadly attack on luxury hotel
Mali said on Sunday that investigators were following “several leads” after 19 people were killed in an attack on a luxury hotel claimed by three militant groups. ISIS militants’ most deadly strike on the West African country in years ended
Putin says wants global anti-terrorism fight after 19 killed in Mali attack
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday global cooperation was need to confront terrorism in the wake of an extremist militant attack targeting foreigners in a luxury hotel in Mali that killed 19 people, six of which were Russian. Friday’s
Obama says Mali attacks ‘stiffens our resolve’
U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday condemned what he called the “appalling” militant hostage siege in Mali that left at least 27 people dead, including an American citizen. “This barbarity only stiffens our resolve to meet this challenge,” he said
Saudi Arabia slams terror attack in Mali
Saudi Arabia condemned on Friday the terrorist attack on a hotel in the country’s capital Bamako which resulted in killing, wounding and taking many hostages. In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the official source at the Ministry
Three killed in Mali hotel attack, 170 taken hostage
At least three people have been killed after Islamist gunmen stormed a luxury hotel packed with foreigners in Mali’s capital Bamako on Friday, taking 170 hostages, a military official told the Associated Press. Three of seven Turkish Airlines staff members
Mali pro-government militias seize northern town amid clashes
Pro-government armed groups in Mali seized the northern town of Menaka from Tuareg separatists on Monday during fierce fighting, a spokesman for the group and a resident said. The clashes come after months of relative calm and risk derailing a
Suicide attacks kill at least nine people in north Mali
A suicide bomb attack near the contested Malian town of Tabankort killed at least nine people overnight, Tuareg rebel sources said on Wednesday, as violence intensified in the desert north of the West African country. The weak Bamako central government
Chadian peacekeeper killed in attack on U.N. base in northern Mali
Suspected Islamist militants attacked a U.N. base in northern Mali with car bombs and rockets on Saturday, killing one Chadian member of the U.N. peacekeeping mission and wounding another, the mission said. Mali is still recovering from a period of
U.N. chief says Ebola cases in Mali a ‘deep concern’
The United Nations chief warned Friday that Ebola may be easing in part of West Africa but is still hitting hard in other areas and outpacing the international response. “If we continue to accelerate our response we can contain and
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