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West Bank mayhem as armed settler gangs attack Palestinian olive farmers
Violent mayhem erupted in the occupied West Bank on Friday when gangs of armed and masked Israeli settlers torched trees and threw rocks at Palestinian villagers in coordinated attacks aimed at wrecking the annual olive harvest. The settlers raided...
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Mourners pray in Gaza as death toll soars
Mourners gather at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on Thursday for the funeral of two Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike. The death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 74,396 since Israel launched its military campaign in October...
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Crown prince receives Iraqi PM
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi in Riyadh on Wednesday. The meeting comes as the two countries continue diplomatic engagement and efforts to boost bilateral relations.
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The Kingdom strikes back
Saudi warplanes struck a key Houthi fuel depot in Sanaa on Monday in the first response to a series of deadly attacks on the Kingdom by the Iranbacked militia in Yemen. The Yemen Petroleum Company’s Al-Sabahah central fuel station was being used by...
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Global outrage after Houthi missile attacks on Riyadh airport
Countries and international organizations have condemned Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia’s airports, including Saturday’s strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh that killed 12 people and injured 309 others, according to Saudi...
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Abbas postpones Palestinian polls due to ‘obstacles posed by Israeli measures’
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday postponed legislative elections due next month until September 11, 2027, and called a presidential poll for the same date, blaming Israel and the security situation in the Palestinian territories for the...
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‘Dedicated and sincere’ ... the pilot killed in attack on Riyadh airport
Tributes were paid on Friday to Capt. Hamoud bin Ali AlKalthami, the Saudi airline pilot killed in a Houthi attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. AlKalthami was a flight captain with Saudia, which “honors his memory with deep respect...
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Saudi warplanes pound Houthis in response to attacks on Kingdom
Saudi warplanes pounded dozens of Houthi military targets in Yemen on Thursday in response to attacks by the Iran-backed militia on civilian infrastructure in the Kingdom. The Saudi-led coalition carried out a “comprehensive operation” against Houthi...
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Three killed in missile attacks on airports in Riyadh and Abha
Missile attacks on international airports in Riyadh and the southern city of Abha killed three people and injured dozens, the Saudi civil aviation authority said on Wednesday. A Sudanese national was killed at King Khalid International Airport in the...
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Get off the train quickly, Houthis!
There is a compelling Japanese proverb that contains timeless wisdom for those who have lost their way: “If you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station. The longer you stay on, the more expensive the return trip will be.” This counsel...
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Saudi crown prince hosts US senator in Riyadh
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received US Senator Chris Murphy in Riyadh on Monday. Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations committees, was accompanied by a delegation. They discussed regional and international...
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Yemen leader announces launch of military drive against Houthis
The President of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council Rashad Mohammed Al-Alimi announced the launch of military operations to recapture the country’s remaining territories controlled by the Houthis on Sunday. “Today we are embarking on a decisive...
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4 women among 5 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza apartment building
An Israeli airstrike killed at least five Palestinians, including four women, in an apartment building in Gaza City early on Saturday, health and civil defense service officials said. Among the dead were a Christian mother, Maisa Abu Dawoud, and her...
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‘Lebanon will not desert you’
Lebanon will not desert its people in the south despite an Israeli occupation and bombardment that has made swaths of territory uninhabitable, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam pledged on Friday. “I am here today to affirm the return to work of state...
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Houthi attack targets Madinah station supplying power to Prophet’s Mosque
Yemen’s Houthi militia carried out a drone attack on the Taiba power distribution station in Madinah on Tuesday morning. Coalition spokesman Turki Al-Maliki called the strike a ‘cowardly terrorist act’ that caused a transformer to go out of service but...
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100 settlers rampage through Palestinian village in West Bank
A gang of more than 100 settlers rampaged through a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, torching cars and buildings, blocking roads and burning tires. The settlers also attacked Israeli border police trying to protect the...
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Saudi foreign minister holds crucial talks in Washington
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Monday at the State Department in Washington. Prince Faisal was in New York throughout last week to attend the UN General Assembly, where he held talks with...
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Trump rejects Iran proposal for deal to reopen Hormuz
US President Donald Trump on Saturday rejected a deal proposed by Iran that Tehran said could have reopened the Strait of Hormuz to shipping within a week. The waterway is key to the world’s energy supply and is now central to the conflict between the...
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Fightback by Yemen forces as Houthi offensive grinds to halt
Government forces have taken control of strategic territory in western Yemen as a Houthi offensive grinds to a halt, senior military officials told Arab News on Friday. Nation Shield and Giants Brigades troops supported by Al-Sabiha tribesmen seized...
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Iran’s peace laureate ‘fears never seeing her children again’
Iranian Nobel peace laureate Narges Mohammadi’s biggest fear is dying without seeing her teenaged twin children again after more than a decade apart, she says in a new memoir published on Thursday. In the book, “A Woman Never Stops Fighting,”...
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Hamas finance chief among 4 killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza
Four Palestinians including a Hamas finance chief were killed on Wednesday in new Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. Mohammad Abu Elwan died along with Osama Abu Khater when an attack hit their vehicle in Khan Younis in the south of the enclave. Two people...
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Saudis come together to fly the flag and celebrate National Day
From streets draped in green and cars flying the Saudi flag to family gatherings, traditional meals and stories passed between generations, Saudi National Day on Wednesday will bring communities across the Kingdom together in celebration. “My favorite...
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Syria steps up efforts to return 2m school dropouts to education
Syria is stepping up efforts to reintegrate an estimated 2 million school dropouts into the education system through assessment programs, measures to address learning loss, and plans to expand access to education. As part of these efforts, the...
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UN Security Council condemns Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia
The UN Security Council has thrown its weight behind Saudi Arabia, condemning “in the strongest terms” continued Houthi attacks on the Kingdom and affirming Riyadh’s right to defend itself as the group’s strikes show no sign of slowing. In a...
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Lebanese army backs off from confrontation with Israeli tanks
The Lebanese army backed off from a confrontation with Israeli forces in southern Lebanon on Friday after facing tanks and stun grenades. They evacuated their position on the outskirts of the village of Deir Mimas in the Marjayoun district after...
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Pakistan will ‘go to any extent’ to defend Kingdom, top general tells Arab News
Pakistan will go to any lengths to defend Saudi Arabia against attack, its military spokesman told Arab News on Thursday. “Pakistan fully stands with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, both diplomatically and physically,” said Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry,...
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‘An attack on all Muslims’
There was outrage throughout the Muslim world on Wednesday after the Houthis in Yemen tried to attack the holy city of Makkah. Saudi air defenses intercepted and destroyed a Houthi drone south of the city on Tuesday evening in the latest attack on...
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Your security is our security, Egypt leader tells Saudi crown prince on official visit
Saudi Arabia and Egypt reaffirmed their close security cooperation on Tuesday during talks in Cairo between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. The security of Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states was part of Egypt’s...
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Football chiefs pledge action on ‘unacceptable’ Jota chants
Saudi football chiefs pledged disciplinary action on Monday after fans of Al-Taawoun taunted Ruben Neves of Al-Hilal over the death of Diogo Jota, his friend and former Portugal teammate. The Saudi Arabian Football Federation and Saudi Pro League...
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Saudi security ‘non-negotiable,’ foreign minister tells BRICS
Saudi Arabia’s national security, territorial integrity and resources are “nonnegotiable,” Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said on Sunday, warning that Gulf states would not tolerate attacks on their territories or vital interests. Speaking...
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Bahrain will not attend Gulf meeting with Iran on Hormuz
Bahrain said on Saturday that it would not take part in a proposed meeting between Gulf states and Iran in Oman to discuss the Strait of Hormuz until diplomatic relations between Manama and Tehran had been restored. Citing Iranian attacks on...
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Houthis’ AI prompt: ‘Claude, build us some guided rockets and missiles’
The Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen tried to use the Claude artificial intelligence chatbot to build guided rockets and missiles, tech giant Anthropic revealed on Friday. The attempt was uncovered when an Anthropic investigation into suspected...
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Protect our coasts from Houthis, Yemen’s leader urges the world
The leader of Yemen’s internationally recognized governing council on Thursday urged Arab and world leaders to protect the country’s coasts amid fierce fighting with the Iran-backed Houthi militia. “The protection of Yemen’s coasts and the restoration...
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New chaos in Hormuz
The Revolutionary Guards attacked 10 vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday after US forces sank five Iranian oil tankers in the biggest wave of rival strikes since the Middle East war began more than six months ago. A fire broke out on the...
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Saudi Arabia ‘will not hesitate to defend itself,’ foreign minister says
There was widespread outrage and condemnation on Tuesday after more than 70 civilians, including women and children, were injured in a wave of attacks on Saudi Arabia by the Houthis in Yemen. The Iran-backed militia’s strikes hit civilian and energy...
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Israel defies Trump with new ‘massacre’ in Lebanese town
Israel on Monday defied US President Donald Trump’s plan for their military withdrawal from Lebanon by killing at least 12 people in new strikes on the country’s south. Eleven people, including two children and four women, died in one attack on a home...
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Arab, Muslim nations condemn Israel’s Gaza expulsion plans
Eight Islamic and Arab countries on Sunday condemned Israeli plans for the removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, saying the designs, voiced by ministers, jeopardize a US-backed peace in the territory. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said...
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Israeli strikes kill 4 in Lebanon
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese border village of Al-Mansouri, on Saturday. Israeli attacks in southern and eastern Lebanon killed at least four people and injured 32.
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Settler, 19, held over violent attack on Palestinian village
Israeli police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old illegal settler over a violent attack on the village of Qusra in the occupied West Bank, where Palestinian homes were besieged for nearly three weeks. Dozens of mostly young settler thugs attacked the...
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Chinese president urges region to resist interference, reshape security
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday urged Middle East states to resist external interference and reshape their security order amid the chaos of the US-Iran war. Xi also said China was ready to work with regional countries to safeguard shipping...
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Chinese president arrives in Cairo for three-day state visit
Chinese President Xi Jinping began a three-day state visit to Egypt on Tuesday as the two countries deepen economic ties, expand cooperation in technology and defense, and increasingly align on key regional and international issues It is the Chinese...
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Political, military chiefs hold first meeting under Makkah defense pact
Political and military chiefs from Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan met in Istanbul on Monday for the first time since the three countries signed the Makkah mutual defense pact on Aug. 7. The Strategic Political and Defense Committee formed under...
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Syrian family searching for cardiologist missing since 2012
Hassan Mahmoud is once again confronting the question that has shaped his family for more than 14 years: Where is his brother, Dr. Hayan Mahmoud? Hayan, a cardiologist at Al-Mujtahid Hospital in Damascus, was arrested by intelligence officers of the...
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Israel-backed settlers attack homes
Dozens of masked Israeli settler militants attacked homes surrounding the occupied West Bank village of Qusra on Saturday, the first major attack since a siege by settlers in the area earlier this month drew an international outcry. The settlers...
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Southern Lebanon hit hard by Israel
Residents on Friday check what is left of a house that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Arab Salim village, southern Lebanon. Israeli forces are operating inside a self-declared ‘security zone,’ which runs around 10 km deep inside Lebanese territory...
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Syria back in global financial network
Al-Sharaa paid by card for coffee at a restaurant in the historic Old City of Damascus, alongside Central Bank governor Mohammed Safwat Raslan. “To witness ... the first payment using a Visa card to take place in the heart of Damascus on the day...
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Israeli troops torch farmland and forests in south Lebanon ‘ecocide’
Israeli troops have set fire to vast tracts of forest and farmland in southern Lebanon in what Lebanese Environment Minister Tamara Elzein condemned as “ecocide.” The fires were started deliberately, she said. Haidar Qoteish, 36, who watched fires...
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China defies US sanctions threat to countries that trade with Iran
China reacted with defiance on Tuesday after the US threatened to impose sanctions on countries that traded with Iran. “Cooperation between China and Iran has always been conducted within the framework of international law and should not be interfered...
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Saudi Arabia signs deal with France to build $7bn theme parks near Paris
Saudi Arabia and France signed an agreement on Monday for $7 billion of Saudi investment to build three giant amusement parks on the outskirts of Paris. One of the parks developed by the creators of Qiddiya City in Riyadh is expected to be inspired by...
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French-Saudi partnership seeks to promote stability
On the occasion of his visit to France, I would like to extend a very warm welcome to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. This visit takes place in a meaningful year, as France and Saudi Arabia celebrate the centenary of the establishment of their...
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Former envoys urge joint French, UK action to save Palestinian territories
Dozens of former senior French and UK diplomats on Saturday urged their governments to work together to uphold international law in the Palestinian territories, accusing Israel of seeking to “destroy” any prospect of a viable Palestinian state. The...
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Yemeni military vows ‘decisive battle’ to drive out the Houthis
Yemen’s military on Thursday pledged a “decisive battle” to defeat the Houthis and recapture Sanaa and other areas controlled by the Iran-backed militia. Government forces launched more than 80 military operations in the past 24 hours, killed a number...
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Japanese foreign minister in Riyadh
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan receives his Japanese counterpart, Toshimitsu Motegi, in Riyadh on Wednesday. Motegi stressed the importance of peace and maritime security in the Middle East.
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KSA leads nations condemning Israel’s rejection of Gaza plan
Saudi Arabia, together with seven other Arab and Islamic countries, condemned Israel’s rejection of US President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza on Sunday, saying the stance threatens international efforts to end the war in the Palestinian territory. In...
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Pressure grows on Israel to end settler siege of Palestinian village
About 15 Palestinian family members have been trapped in their homes in the village of Qusra for the past six days, with no access to food, water or power, and the settlers have fought off attempts by the Israeli military to dislodge them. The US has...
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US blasts Israel over settler siege and occupation of south Lebanon
Trump administration officials launched a rare barrage of criticism at Israel on Thursday over settler violence and Israel’s continued military occupation of southern Lebanon. The condemnation came as settlers laid siege to homes in a Palestinian...
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Settlers fight off Israeli military in occupied West Bank village siege
A gang of illegal settlers laying siege to three Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank fought off an attempt by the Israeli military on Wednesday to disperse them The settlers had set up a tent outpost in front of the homes in the village of...
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Four crew killed in Houthi strikes on vessel in Red Sea
The Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen killed four people on Tuesday in two missile strikes on a commercial vessel in the Red Sea. The Egyptian-owned Tihamah was carrying cargo from Salalah in Oman to Mocha in Yemen via Djibouti when it was attacked...
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UN experts condemn escalation in attacks against Palestinians
UN experts on Monday condemned the sharp escalation of attacks against Palestinian civilians across the Occupied Palestinian Territory in July, registering a sharp deterioration of an already catastrophic human rights situation. “Despite a ceasefire...
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Saudi Arabia welcomes UN condemnation of Houthis
Saudi Arabia — along with its regional allias — welcomed the UN Security Council’s condemnation of Houthi missile attacks against the Kingdom and commercial shipping, while reaffirming its right to take necessary measures to defend its territory,...
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Israeli troops ‘build earth barrier in Lebanese army-held village’
Israeli troops infiltrated a Lebanese village placed under the control of Lebanon’s army as part of a June agreement, building an earthen barrier there, state media and the local mayor said on Saturday. An AFP correspondent saw the barrier, situated...
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‘Attack on one is attack on all’
Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan signed a mutual defense agreement on Friday enshrining the principle that an attack on one of the three countries would be treated as an attack against all. The historic pact was signed in a ceremony at Al-Safa...
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Pakistan premier arrives in Jeddah
Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Jeddah on Thursday. He was received at King Abdulaziz International Airport by the deputy governor of the Makkah region, Prince Saud bin Mishaal bin Abdulaziz, alongside Saudi Minister of...
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Crisis talks over Israeli ‘takeover’ of Al-Aqsa
Arab foreign ministers held emergency talks in Jordan on Wednesday amid fears of an “imminent” takeover of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem by extremist Israeli settler groups. The talks followed a series of incursions into the compound, including...
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Houthi attacks ‘had no impact,’ Aramco says as profits surge
Attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen had “no material impact on our capabilities,” Aramco president and chief executive Amin Nasser said on Tuesday as the Saudi energy giant reported a 44 percent increase in profits. The Houthi strikes...
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Children among 15 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza
Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza for a second straight day on Sunday, killing at least 15 Palestinians, medics said, despite a US announcement of a breakthrough in efforts to implement last year’s ceasefire agreement. From dawn, Israeli warplanes hit Gaza...
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Israel bombs medicine storage warehouses in Gaza
Israel’s military on Saturday killed two Palestinians in Gaza and destroyed two warehouses near a hospital that were said to be storing medicine in separate strikes, amid uncertainty over whether Israel has accepted a deal reached with Hamas over the...
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Hopes for Gaza peace rise after Hamas agrees to give up arms
Hopes for peace in Gaza rose on Friday after Hamas agreed to give up its weapons and end nearly 40 years of armed “resistance” against Israel. Saudi Arabia immediately welcomed the agreement and commended US President Donald Trump’s “leadership and...
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Saudi Arabia launches global maritime defense alliance
The Kingdom hosted a meeting on Thursday of military chiefs from 43 countries and the EU to discuss a Saudi initiative to establish a multinational maritime defense alliance. The initiative reflects the growing international interest in strengthening...
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Trump vows to ‘hit Iran hard’ as lull in Middle East war ends
US President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to “hit Iran hard” after joint Saudi-US strikes on Iran-backed militias in Iraq. Those strikes followed two days of drone attacks from Iraqi territory on Saudi energy infrastructure as the Middle East...
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Israeli forces arrest 25 Palestinians and demolish homes in West Bank
Israeli forces on Tuesday arrested at least 25 Palestinians and demolished more Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank. Eight people were detained in Nablus, seven in Tulkarm and its suburbs, three south of Hebron and one in Kafr Qaddum. In...
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