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: WASHINGTON
Carson joins Trump in claiming U.S. Muslims cheered 9/11
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson followed rival Donald Trump’s lead Monday in saying he too saw a video of Arab Americans cheering as New York’s twin towers collapsed on September 11, 2001. Within days of the 9/11 attacks, police, fact-checkers
U.S. to boost attacks on ISIS global network
The United States on Monday sought to rally greater cooperation among allies seeking to crush ISIS group’s “global network,” on the heels of attacks in Paris, Beirut and Baghdad. Special envoy Brett McGurk urged allies to “increase pressure on ISIL
U.S. ground forces traveling ‘soon’ to Syria
Dozens of U.S. special operations forces will arrive in Syria “very soon,” as promised by President Barack Obama’s administration, a senior official said Sunday. The troops will have the task of organizing local forces battling the self-proclaimed ISIS in northern
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.
Republican rivals blast Trump for Muslim database comments
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump drew criticism from White House rivals on Friday for saying he would implement a database to keep track of Muslims in the United States and require them to register in response to the attacks in
FBI director says no credible threat of Paris-type attack in U.S.
FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday there was no credible threat of an attack on U.S. soil similar to the ones last week in Paris and that his agency had taken terrorism investigations “up a notch.” Comey and Attorney
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
U.S. strikes on ISIS oil supply initially only ‘minimally effective’
U.S. air strikes have been only “minimally effective” in destroying oil infrastructure in the hands of militants, a military spokesman said Wednesday, explaining why tanker trucks in Syria are now being targeted instead. The U.S.-led coalition that has been conducting
CIA chief blasts Snowden in wake of Paris attacks
CIA Director John Brennan on Wednesday blasted former analyst Edward Snowden, saying his intelligence leaks had undermined U.S. security. The comments from Brennan come at a time of growing debate following last week’s attacks in Paris about whether intelligence services
Air France flights diverted after ‘bomb threats’
Two Air France flights bound for Paris from the United States were diverted late on Tuesday due to bomb threats, media reports said. CNN reported that one was diverted to Salt Lake City, Utah, after taking off from Los Angeles
Pentagon targeting trucks, rigs in assault on ISIS oil funding
U.S.-led air strikes have hit at least 175 targets in the ISIS’s main oil-producing region over the past month, as Washington intensifies efforts to disrupt a key revenue source estimated to provide more than $1 million a day to the
Biden and Barzani discuss Sinjar battle in northern Iraq
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke with Iraqi Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani on Tuesday about Kurdish forces’ success in seizing the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) last week, the White
U.S. and France agree on ‘concrete steps’ against ISIS
The defense ministers of France and the United States agreed Sunday on “concrete steps” to intensify cooperation against the Islamic State group, the Pentagon said. U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian discussed by telephone
Two U.S. states shun Syria refugees in wake of Paris attacks
Two U.S. states say they will block or suspend a program to resettle Syrian refugees within their borders, citing security concerns after Friday’s wave of deadly assaults in Paris. “After full consideration of this weekend’s attacks of terror on innocent
U.S. Republican presidential hopefuls: no refugees
U.S. Republican presidential hopefuls said Sunday that in the wake of the Paris attacks America must not take in Syrian refugees because they might include Islamic State militants. “It’s not that we don’t want to, it’s that we can’t,” Florida
U.S. delivers ammunition to Syrian Arab fighters battling ISIS
The United States has carried out a fresh delivery of ammunition to fighters from the Syrian Arab Coalition battling Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in northern Syria, pushing ahead with a strategy that initially unnerved ally Turkey, a
ISIS leader ‘killed’ in American airstrike in Libya
An F-15 fighter jet strike killed the head of ISIS in Libya, the Pentagon said Saturday, in another high-profile U.S. hit following the targeting of the most-wanted “Jihadi John.” The announcement comes as the extremist group said it was responsible
Trump on Paris attacks: ‘Nobody had guns but the bad guys’
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Saturday said the jihadist attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 “would have been different” if civilians had been armed. “When you look at Paris, toughest gun laws in the world, nobody had
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