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: France
Longtime Algerian opposition figure Ait-Ahmed dies
Hocine Ait-Ahmed, one of the fathers of Algeria’s struggle for independence from France and then a longtime opposition figure, died in Lausanne, Switzerland on Wednesday, his Socialist Forces Front party said. Ait-Ahmed, 89, was the last of the nine so-called
Man who beheaded his boss kills himself in French jail
A man jailed in France for beheading his boss and trying to blow up a chemicals plant in June has committed suicide, a prison official said on Wednesday. Yassin Salhi, who French authorities said had links to Islamist militants, had
French police foil attack in city south of Paris
Police have prevented two men from carrying out an attack on police and army personnel in the central French city of Orleans, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Tuesday. Two Frenchmen, aged 20 and 24, were being held for questioning,
France, Russia to ‘strengthen’ intel exchange on ISIS
Moscow and Paris have agreed to up efforts to share intelligence relating to ISIS after the countries vowed to cooperate militarily on the issue. “We have agree to strengthen our exchange of military information, both on the strikes and the
Belgian police raid home, make arrests in Paris attacks probe
Belgian police searched a home in the centre of Brussels on Sunday and made two arrests in connection with a probe into last month’s terror attacks in Paris, federal prosecutors said. Special Forces and federal police were involved in a
Britain eyes legal protection for gun police after Paris attacks
British armed police could get greater legal protection if they shoot suspected criminals after Prime Minister David Cameron ordered a review of current laws in the light of mass shootings in Paris last month, the Sunday Times reported. Following the
Air France says bomb scare was ‘false alarm’
Air France chief executive Frederic Gagey said Sunday that a bomb threat that prompted one of the airline’s planes to make an emergency landing in Kenya had been a “false alarm”. “The object was not capable of causing an explosion,”
France hopes to reschedule Iran president’s visit for January
France hopes to welcome Iran’s president in January after the visit last month was postponed due to the Paris attacks, the head of the French Senate said Saturday. Gerard Larcher, who is visiting Tehran, said French President Francois Hollande “hopes
France demands assurances Assad will leave power
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Friday demanded that talks on Syria’s future yield assurances that President Bashar al-Assad will leave power. “There must be safeguards regarding the exit of Bashar al-Assad,” Fabius told the U.N. Security Council after the
French defence minister to visit Moscow to coordinate ISIS fight
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian will travel to Moscow for talks with Russian officials on Sunday and Monday to coordinate efforts to defeat ISIS, his office announced. “On December 20 and 21 Mr Le Drian will go to Russia
France uses first cruise missiles against ISIS: government
The French air force used its first cruise missiles against ISIS targets in Iraq on Tuesday, the defence ministry said. “Launched from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, the raid was made up of a dozen fighter planes equipped with
French teacher who claimed is attack admits inventing story
A French nursery school teacher who claimed on Monday he was stabbed in his classroom by an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) supporter has admitted to prosecutors that he invented the story. The 45-year-old teacher at a school
French far-right fails at regional election run-off
Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front did not win any region in French elections on Sunday, in a setback to her hopes of being a serious presidential contender in 2017. The regional election run-off, in which the conservatives won seven
Syria talks: Hollande hails King’s initiatives
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman received a telephone call Saturday from French President Francois Hollande. King Salman briefed the president on the outcome of the Syrian opposition conference which was held in Riyadh. President Hollande hoped that
Saudi hails Syrian opposition meet ‘breakthrough’
Saudi Arabia described a meeting aimed at unifying Syria’s opposition groups in the capital Riyadh to form a single delegation for upcoming negotiations as a “breakthrough,” the state-owned Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Saturday. France on Friday also welcomed
World adopts historic global warming pact
Nearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact to fight climate change on Saturday, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution but imposing no sanctions on countries that don’t. The “Paris agreement” aims to
Neutral Finland to boost Iraq, Lebanon missions to help France
Finland said on Friday it would boost its involvement in a training mission in Iraq and in a U.N.-led operation in Lebanon to help relieve French forces following the Paris attacks last month by ISIS militants. France made an unprecedented
New draft climate deal emerges as Paris talks near end
Negotiators from China, the U.S. and other nations haggled into the early morning Friday over how to share the burden of fighting climate change and paying for a trillion-dollar transition to clean energy on a global scale. Some delegates said
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