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: Israel
U.S. officials: Israel wants up to $5 billion in annual military aid
Israel has made an initial request for its annual U.S. defense aid to increase to as much as $5 billion when its current aid package, worth an average $3 billion a year, expires in 2017, U.S. congressional sources said on
‘Operational intifada leadership’ urged by Hamas
Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal called on all Palestinian groups to form a unified leadership of the current wave of violence against Israel, which he called an intifada, or uprising. Speaking by video-link from Qatar, the head of the Islamist
Israel frees former hunger strike Palestinian
Israeli authorities said late on Wednesday they had freed a Palestinian detainee who survived a two-month hunger strike, after holding him for a year without trial in a case that sharpened tensions in the West Bank. “Mohammed Allan has just
Palestinian attacker killed after West Bank car ramming: police
A Palestinian driver ran over and injured an Israeli border policeman near the West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday and was killed by Israeli forces, police said. “Running over of border policeman – the terrorist was neutralized – eliminated,”
Temple Mount status quo in High-Definition
By : Yossi Mekelberg There is something surreal in the mere thought of high-definition modern technology calming down tensions over a centuries-long disputed religious site. Israeli consent to install round the clock cameras on Temple Mount, in order to verify
Israel keeps its own counsel on Assad as big powers wade into Syria
Israel is no longer taking a public position on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s prospects of staying in power, its defence minister said on Tuesday, citing the opposing goals of the United States and Russia as they intervene in the civil
Israel denies link to ‘tear gas death’ of Palestinian baby
Israel’s military rejected Saturday any link between its use of tear gas during West Bank clashes and the death of an eight-month-old boy, after the Palestinian health ministry said he was asphyxiated. On Friday, the Palestinian ministry said Ramadan Thawabteh
Palestinian wielding knife shot dead: Israeli police
Israeli security forces shot and killed a Palestinian who ran at them with a knife in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, police said, as a month-long wave of violence showed no signs of abating. An Israeli police spokeswoman said
Palestinian baby dies from Israeli army tear gas
An eight-month-old Palestinian boy died Friday after being exposed to tear gas fired by the Israeli army near his West Bank home, a spokesman for the Palestinian health ministry told AFP. He said the baby, Ramadan Thawabteh, died after the
Two Palestinians shot ‘trying to stab’ Israeli police
Two Palestinians allegedly tried to stab Israeli police at a West Bank checkpoint on Friday, one of whom was shot dead while the other was wounded by Israeli fire, police said. “Both terrorists arrived in area on motorbike armed with
Israel legalises hundreds of west bank settler homes
Israel has retroactively legalised some 800 homes in four settlements in the occupied West Bank, the interior ministry said. They included 377 homes in the Yakir settlement, 187 in Itmar and 94 in Shilo in the northern West Bank, as
Two Palestinians shot dead in new knife attacks
New knife attacks on Israelis in the West Bank left a soldier lightly injured Thursday, while two Palestinian assailants were shot dead by security forces, police and the army said. In one incident a Palestinian stabbed and lightly wounded an
Abbas asks U.N. for protection from Israel
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Wednesday in Geneva for the creation of a “special regime” for the protection of his people, as a wave of deadly Israeli-Palestinian violence showed no sign of abating. Abbas called on the U.N., “more urgently
Over 340 UK scholars boycott Israeli universities
Hundreds of British academics said Tuesday they would boycott contact with Israeli universities over the state’s “intolerable human rights violations” toward Palestinians. The announcement, entitled “A commitment by UK scholars to the rights of Palestinians,” was printed as a full-page
EU urges Abbas, Netanyahu to meet Quartet
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Tuesday urged Israel Premier Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to meet Quartet representatives “within days” in the hope of kick-starting stalled peace talks. “I have asked both Netanyahu and Abbas to
Cameras at al-Aqsa Mosque
By : Abdulrahman al-Rashed Recent escalation between the Palestinians and Israelis has made U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry mediate and suggest the idea of installing surveillance cameras at al-Aqsa compound for the purpose of ending clashes. The cameras, however,
A New World Order is emerging from the Middle East
By : Dr. Azeem Ibrahim This year is seeing the most drastic reshaping of the geopolitics of the Middle East possibly since WW2. Certainly since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Everything is in flux. Russia and Iran are pushing
Palestinians shot dead for ‘stabbing’ Israeli soldier
Two Palestinians were shot dead after allegedly stabbing and wounding an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. Religious and political tensions over a Jerusalem site sacred to both Muslims and Jews have fueled the worst wave of
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