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: Syria
Syrian war planes hit ISIS-run bakery, training camp
Syrian war planes hit a bakery run by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the city of Raqqa, killing at least 17 people, in air raids on Saturday that also hit a major training camp used by the
U.S. fears Syrian chemical arms falling to extremists: power
The United States expressed concern Thursday that undeclared Syrian chemical weapons could fall into the hands of Islamist extremists. U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power raised the concerns as a joint U.N. and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons mission winds
UK: Syria strikes possible without Assad invite
Strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) inside Syria could be launched without an invitation from the Syrian government, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday, raising one of the first justifications for foreign military action in
General denies Fiji Muslims face U.N. hostage backlash
Fiji’s army chief on Thursday dismissed as “sick” a suggestion the Pacific nation’s Muslim minority will face a backlash if 45 U.N. peacekeepers taken hostage by Islamic rebels in the Golan Heights are harmed, Agence France-Presse reported. Brigadier General Mosese
13 civilians killed in bus attack in eastern Syria
A Syrian government airstrike hit a bus carrying civilians in eastern Syria on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people, most of them children, opposition activists said. But the government in the capital, Damascus, blamed ISIS for the incident, describing it
Record 4.1 million in Syria recieve food aid
A record 4.1 million people in Syria received food rations in August due to more convoys being able to cross front lines and borders from Turkey and Jordan, the U.N.’s World Food Program (WFP) said on Tuesday. “We are reaching
Human Rights Watch: ISIS using cluster bombs
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants have used cluster munitions in Syria in at least one location and Syria’s regime is continuing to use the widely banned weapon, Human Rights Watch said Monday. The New York-based group, citing
Assad urges his govt to ‘provide new vision’
Syria’s embattled President Bashar al-Assad swore in his new government on Sunday, saying security and reconstruction would be top priorities and urging ministers to tackle corruption. The new government, appointed earlier this week after Assad’s June re-election, takes office as
Israel shoots down drone from Syria
Israel downed a drone over the occupied Golan Heights on Sunday, the army said, amid mounting tension on the U.N.-patrolled armistice line with Syria on the strategic plateau. Air defenses “successfully intercepted an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that breached Israel
France arrests suspected female minor militant before departure to Syria
A 16-year-old girl suspected of trying to reach Syria to join Islamist rebels has been arrested in the southeastern city of Nice, France’s interior minister said on Sunday. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a statement that border police at
ISIS rolling out own ‘curriculum’ in Syria schools
Militants belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria have reportedly begun implementing their own “Islamic curriculum” for students living in Syria’s northern city of Raqqa, a monitoring group has been informed. The education department under the ISIS governing
ISIS says forcing detained pilots to train militants: report
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria said in a recent tweet it is forcing detained Syrian pilots to train militant fighters to fly stolen aircraft, CNN Arabic reported on Saturday. In an account reportedly associated with the militant group,
U.N. peacekeepers ‘clash’ with Syria rebels
The Philippine defense chief said Filipino peacekeepers in the Golan Heights were attacked by Syrian rebels who are holding dozens of Fijian troops hostage, the Associated Press reported. Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin told reporters Saturday in a series of text
U.N. says Syria refugees top 3 million mark
More than three million Syrians have fled the civil war ravaging their country to become refugees, mounting to one million of them in the past year alone, the United Nations said Friday. “Syria’s intensifying refugee crisis will today surpass a
Obama signals no immediate strikes in Syria
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday signaled there would not be immediate U.S. military action in Syria against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, saying that Washington was still developing a strategy on tackling the conflict there. “I don’t
Video: ISIS parades half-naked Syrian soldiers
Militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) released a video on Thursday showing the capture of dozens of Syrian regime fighters. In the video, the men are walking with their hands behind their head alongside ISIS militants yielding
U.N. says 43 peacekeepers seized in Golan
The United Nations confirmed that an armed group captured 43 U.N. peacekeepers on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Thursday, saying it was doing everything to secure their release. “Forty-three peacekeepers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force
France dismisses Assad as partner against ISIS
Syria’s Bashar al-Assad is not the West’s partner in the fight against terrorism but an ally of Islamic extremists wreaking havoc in Syria and Iraq, French President Francois Hollande warned Thursday. “Assad cannot be a partner in the fight against
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