JEDDAH — Jasem Albudaiwi, secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), revealed that the GCC will vigorously pursue to get the Gulf citizens exempted from Schengen visas. "During negotiations in Brussels with the leaders of the European (...)
RIYADH — The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) signed on Wednesday a memorandum for financial support with the Iraqi Ministry of Environment.
The memorandum is aimed at funding projects for the survey, removal and qualitative (...)
With the Republican primary nomination drained of much of its drama, political conversation on the right is shifting to who the clear front-runner, Donald Trump, might pick as his vice-presidential running mate.
It certainly was a topic of (...)
A Marine rapid response force is expected to leave the eastern Mediterranean Sea in the coming weeks and return to the United States, according to two defense officials, in a significant reduction of US forces in the region.
The USS Bataan (...)
A senior commander of an Iran-backed militia has been killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad.
A leader of Kataib Hezbollah and two of his guards were in a vehicle when it was targeted in the east of the Iraqi capital. All three of them died.
The (...)
It is a lonely drive to Israel's most northern town, Metula, along a spur of land that is surrounded on three sides by Lebanon. That means it is also surrounded on three sides by Lebanon's most powerful armed group, Hezbollah.
The soldiers at the (...)
Hamas says it has given its response to a framework proposal for a new ceasefire in Gaza.
The details of the deal — set out by Israel, the US, Qatar and Egypt — have not been released.
It was earlier reported to include a six-week truce, when more (...)
يلعب منتخب الأردن اليوم أمام كوريا الجنوبية على ملعب استاد أحمد بن علي المونديالي في دور نصف النهائي من كأس آسيا.
وكان منتخب النشامى بلغ نصف النهائي بعد الفوز على طاجيكستان بهدف نظيف دون رد، سجله فاهادات هانونوف عن طريق الخطأ في مرماه.
وصعد منتخب (...)
A drone attack on the largest US military base in Syria has killed at least six allied Kurdish-led fighters.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said its commando academy at the Al-Omar oil field in the eastern province of Deir Al-Zour was hit in the (...)
Paramedics brought the dead and injured to a central Gaza hospital on Sunday after the latest in a day of deadly Israeli strikes on the town of Deir al-Balah.
At least seven people were killed and 15 others injured when a strike hit a house in the (...)
Iran has called US air strikes on Iraq and Syria a "strategic mistake" after 85 targets were hit across the region on Friday.
The US launched retaliatory strikes in response to last week's drone attack on a US military base that killed three (...)
SHARJAH — Saudi Arabia achieved a remarkable success in the fourth West Asia Para Games, held in Sharjah by securing 55 medals.
The haul included 17 gold, 23 silver, and 15 bronze medals, bolstering the nation's standing to third place in the (...)
A US warship's destruction of an incoming Houthi missile in the Red Sea this week marks the first use in this conflict of an advanced weapons system dubbed the Navy's "last line of defense."
The Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CWIS) was deployed by (...)
More than 800 serving officials in the US and Europe have signed a statement warning that their own governments' policies on the Israel-Gaza war could amount to "grave violations of international law".
The "transatlantic statement", a copy of which (...)
The US has approved plans for a series of strikes on Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq, officials have told the BBC's US partner CBS News.
The strikes would take place over a number of days, officials say, and weather conditions will likely dictate (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia and Kuwait underscored their unequivocal stance regarding the Durra field, asserting its location entirely within Kuwait's exclusive maritime areas. They emphasized that the natural resources in the divided submerged area, (...)
A powerful Iran-backed Iraqi militia suspected of a drone strike in Jordan that killed three US soldiers says it has suspended operations against US forces.
Kataib Hezbollah, which is part of an umbrella group that claimed Sunday's attack, said this (...)
The US government has released the names of three US soldiers killed by a drone attack in Jordan on Sunday.
Sgt William Jerome Rivers, 46, Specialist Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, and Specialist Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, were killed when a drone (...)
Three US troops have been killed and 25 injured in a drone attack on a US base in Jordan, near the Syria border, the US has announced.
US President Joe Biden said the attack was carried out by Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and (...)
Iran has denied involvement in a drone attack on a US base near Jordan's border with Syria that killed three US troops.
The US blamed the attack on "radical Iranian-backed militant groups" which also left dozens injured.
US President Biden vowed (...)
The deaths of three American troops in a drone attack Sunday has thrust the United States deeper into the Middle East conflict and lent fresh urgency to efforts at securing the release of hostages in Gaza in exchange for a prolonged halt in the (...)
The US carried out airstrikes in Iraq targeting facilities used by Iranian-backed militias in the country on Tuesday following repeated attacks on US forces, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced in a statement.
The strikes targeted three (...)
The Palestinian death toll in Gaza from over three months of war between Israel and the territory's Hamas rulers has soared past 25,000, the Gaza Health Ministry said on Sunday.
At least 178 bodies were brought to Gaza's hospitals in 24 hours along (...)
A number of US military personnel have been injured in a missile attack on an airbase in western Iraq.
The US military's Central Command said an Iran-backed militia targeted the Al Asad airbase, which hosts American troops, with ballistic missiles (...)
UN Secretary-General António Guterres repeated his call for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and the unconditional release of all hostages, in an address to the latest summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which concluded in Kampala, Uganda, on (...)