Friday, June 12, 2026

Hunting houbara: The royal kidnap which casts spotlight on the Gulf's 'sport of kings'

Every year the houbara bustard, a rare desert bird whose meat is prized by Arab sheikhs as an aphrodisiac, migrates from Central Asia to...

Erdogan: pulling out troops from Iraq 'out of the question'

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkish troops deployed in Iraq for training purposes in the fight against the Islamic State were not on...

OFWs vow to defend KSA at any cost

At least two separate gatherings of Filipino workers, mainly from Mindanao, pledged to defend the Kingdom at any cost. They expressed their willingness at a...

200 Al-Shabab fighters pledge allegiance to ISIS

Kenya's police chief says about 200 Islamic extremist fighters have split from Somalia's al-Shabab rebels, who are allied to al-Qaida, and have instead pledged...

Yemen truce strained by reports of air strikes and fighting

A truce aimed at ending more than a year of war in Yemen appeared to be largely holding on Monday, although residents said fighting...

After billions spent on haj safety, Saudis lost control of deadly crowd

Pilgrims reported feeling the hands of their relatives slip away into the crowd on Thursday morning when a crush at the Mina camp in...

Islamic State advances on Aleppo in Syria fighting

Islamic State fighters have seized villages close to the northern Syrian city of Aleppo from rival insurgents, a monitoring group said on Friday, despite...

Kerry: Some Iran funds could be sent to ‘terrorists’

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry admitted on Thursday that some of the funds Iran will recover as a result of sanctions relief could...

Israel and US comparing Iran to the Nazis

At Auschwitz on a Holocaust Memorial Event on Thursday, a group of world, Muslim and Jewish leaders paid a joint "historic" visit to honor...

Pakistan investigate soybean dust’s link to deaths in Karachi

Following the deaths of at least 14 people and dozens of illnesses in the southern port city of Karachi, authorities in Pakistan are investigating...

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