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: PALESTINE
Israeli army to allow HIV positive recruits
HIV-positive Israelis will be conscripted into the military for the first time, the army said Wednesday, a move welcomed by homosexual rights groups as an important step against discrimination. While Israeli Jews are required to do military service, people with
Israel deploys heavy security ahead of planned home demolition
Hundreds of Israeli soldiers and police deployed in an occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood on Wednesday ahead of the planned demolition of a home of a Palestinian who carried out an attack last year. Such demolitions, heavily criticized by rights groups,
Israeli police shoot two alleged Palestinian attackers, one dead
Israeli police have shot two Palestinian alleged attackers in two separate incidents near Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, leaving one dead and the other wounded, Israeli authorities have said. The first incident in which a Palestinian
Israel convicts two in murder of Palestinian teen
An Israeli court on Monday found two Jewish defendants guilty of the 2014 murder of a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem, but held off on formally convicting a third man pending a psychological review, Israeli broadcasters said. Mohammed Abu Khdeir was
Palestinian shot dead after stabbing Israeli police officer
A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli police officer in Jerusalem on Sunday before being shot dead by security forces, and another Palestinian stabbed a woman in the back as she was waiting for a bus, police said, as a two-month wave
Palestinian killed by Israel army fire in West Bank
A Palestinian was shot and killed during clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said. “Yahya Taha, 21, from the village of Qatanna… died after he was shot and wounded in the
Palestinian shot dead after alleged car ramming
A Palestinian was shot dead after allegedly ramming his vehicle into a group of Israelis lightly injuring two soldiers, according to Israeli officials. The alleged attack took place at a bus station near the Israeli West Bank settlement of Kfar
Israeli troops, Palestinian wounded in south Nablus ‘car attack’
Two Israeli soldiers and a border police officer were wounded early Tuesday after a Palestinian allegedly attempted to run them over before being shot, the Israeli police and army said. The incident took place near the Za’tara checkpoint south of
Violence flares as Kerry meets Netanyahu in Israel
A Palestinian motorist rammed his vehicle into a group of Israeli soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint on Tuesday, wounding three, Israel’s military said, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited for the first time in over a year,
Kerry seeks to restore ‘calm’ in Israel, Palestinian territories
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry began a one-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Tuesday saying he would discuss ways to restore calm with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Today I express my complete condemnation for any
Palestinian girl shot dead after ‘stabbing man’ in Jerusalem
Two Palestinian teenage girls allegedly attempted to stab a 70-year-old Palestinian man mistaken for an Israeli with scissors outside a central Jerusalem market on Monday before they were shot by police – in a fresh burst of violence ahead of
Kerry to meet Israeli, Palestinian leaders on ending violence
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet next week with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the region to try to stop ongoing violence, although senior U.S. official insisted it was not a renewed effort to broker a peace accord.
Four Israelis stabbed, wounded in attack
Four Israelis were stabbed and wounded, one seriously, in the southern city of Kiryat Gat Saturday in what police described as a terrorist attack. Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld called it a “confirmed terrorist attack,” noting that security forces were searching for
Israeli cop who beat U.S.-Palestinian teen gets community service
The United States said on Thursday it was “disappointed” that an Israeli riot policeman was sentenced to community service, and not prison, for beating an American teenager of Palestinian descent last year, saying there was clear evidence excessive force was
One dead, 8 wounded in West Bank gun, car attack
At least one attacker opened fire from a car then crashed into a group of pedestrians near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank Thursday, killing an Israeli and wounding eight people, police and the army said. The army
Israel aircraft hit Gaza in response to rocket fire
Israeli aircraft hit two training camps in the Gaza Strip overnight in response to a rocket fired toward the south of the Jewish state, sources on both sides said Wednesday. There were no reports of casualties from either the rocket
Palestinian fires at Israel troops, is shot dead
A Palestinian opened fire on Israeli soldiers before they shot him dead in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, the army said, arresting two other assailants. The military said “shots were fired” at a patrol near Turmus Ayya, and that
Israel to lift freeze on marketing of 454 settler homes in East Jerusalem
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that Syria could be weeks away from a “big transition,” following on from international talks in Vienna at the weekend. “We are weeks away conceivably from the possibility of a big transition
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