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: GREEN ZONE
Two rockets hit near US embassy in Baghdad, according to security sources
:: Two rockets landed near the US embassy in Baghdad overnight, security sources told AFP early Tuesday, with foreign diplomats there reporting emergency sirens repeatedly going off. The latest attack within the walled-off Green Zone, which hosts foreign embassies and
Katyusha rocket falls in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone
:: A Katyusha rocket has landed in the vicinity of the US embassy in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, according to News Agency correspondent. “A Katyusha rocket fell in the middle of the Green Zone without causing any losses, details to
Four killed, 90 injured in Iraq Green Zone riots
At least four people were killed and 90 injured among anti-corruption protesters who stormed Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone on Friday, hospital sources said on Saturday. Iraqi security forces used live and rubber bullets as well as tear gas to
Iraqi PM given deadline to reshuffle cabinet
Iraq’s parliament gave embattled Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi until Thursday to present a cabinet of technocrats as Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr expanded his protest movement for reform. Sadr himself spent the night camping in the Green Zone while thousands of
Iraqi cleric meets with PM after Green Zone sit-injured
Influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr met with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Sunday night after beginning a sit-in in Baghdad’s highly fortified Green Zone intended to be a show of force following his calls to combat government corruption. Earlier
Iraq’s Sadr in ‘Green Zone’ sit-in protest
Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Sunday entered the perimeter of Baghdad’s fortified “Green Zone” and began a sit-in to ramp up pressure for reforms. The symbolic move by the young Shiite cleric comes after thousands of his supporters have been
Followers of Iraqi cleric Sadr rally in Baghdad
Thousands of Iraqis staged a protest on Friday outside the capital Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone to demand anti-corrpution measures, heeding a call by influential Shiiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. At around 11 a.m. (0800 GMT), riot police stood aside and
Russia grounds its warplanes in Syrian
Russia has grounded its warplanes in Syria to help secure a cease-fire brokered by Moscow and Washington that entered into force Saturday, a top military official said. Lt.-Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the General Staff of Russia’s military said that while
U.S. protests Baghdad opening Green Zone to traffic
The United States protested Monday the opening of Baghdad’s “Green Zone” to the public, after 12 years of closure of the heavily fortified area home to top Iraqi political institutions and embassies. The four-square-mile International Zone of Baghdad was already
Iraq PM opens Baghdad ‘Green Zone’ to traffic
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Sunday announced that Baghdad’s “Green Zone” was open to the public for the first time in 12 years, albeit with many remaining restrictions. The roughly 10-square-kilometre (four square miles), heavily fortified area in the
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