Russia: No force in Syria without govt approval
Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday that no country could use military force in Syria without first securing the agreement of...
U.N. warns of dire food situation in Yemen’s Taiz
The U.N. World Food Program on Friday appealed for safe access to the Yemeni city of Taiz, saying that fighting between warring factions had...
Iran backs six-month Syria "transition" at Vienna peace talks
Iran signalled on Friday it backed a six-month transition period in Syria followed by elections to decide Bashar al-Assad's fate, a proposal floated at...
Beirut airport seizes 230 kg Captagon pills bound for Qatar
Lebanese customs officials discovered 230 kg of Captagon amphetamine pills hidden inside tables prepared for export to the Gulf state of Qatar from Beirut...
Power of the press
The number of unlicensed electronic newspapers in the Kingdom has increased dramatically. Most do not even follow the basic professional and moral standards of...
Warplanes bomb Libya’s Sirte, target ISIS
Unidentified warplanes carried out air strikes on Libya's Sirte city, targeting areas controlled by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants in the...
Israel legalises hundreds of West Bank settler homes
Israel has retroactively legalised some 800 homes in four settlements in the occupied West Bank, the interior ministry said.
They included 377 homes in the...
At least 40 killed in missile attack on Syrian town
At least 40 people were killed and about 100 wounded when Syrian government forces fired missiles into a marketplace in a town near Damascus,...
Iran backs six-month Syria 'transition' ahead of peace talks
Iran signaled on Friday that it favored a six-month "transition" period in Syria followed by elections to decide the fate of President Bashar al-Assad,...
Vienna meeting could lead to wider Saudi-Iran talks: UN
Iran's first-ever participation in international talks on Syria could lead to wider negotiations between rivals Tehran and Riyadh on the conflicts in Yemen and...
