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Nearly a dozen civilians, mostly women and children, have been killed when Saudi military aircraft struck a residential area in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its bombardment campaign against its southern neighbor. Saudi fighter jets carried out an airstrike on a neighborhood in …

A UN official has said that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) was a prime suspect in the case of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Execution Agnes Callamard …

Several US House Democrats are calling on the Trump administration to disclose the details of side deals between Saudi Arabia and US arms manufacturers that allow the kingdom to produce weapons with American technology on its own soil, Foreign Policy reported. The legislators argued that the side arrangements undercut the …

The spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces has censured Saudi Arabia for waging a war against the impoverished Arab country over destruction of two civilian vessels in the strategic Red Sea, vowing that Yemeni troops and allied fighters will respond to the act of aggression. Brigadier General Yahya Saree denounced the …

Saudi fighters violated the ceasefire in Yemen and launched a series of attacks on Al-Hudaydah province in the past 24 hours. Saudi fighter jets have once again violated their alleged ceasefire in Yemen, Al-Masirah reported. In the past 24 hours, the Saudi-led coalition has reportedly violated the ceasefire in Hudaydah, …

Saudi Arabia has issued guidelines for about 1,000 pilgrims who will be allowed to perform the hajj pilgrimage in Mecca later this month, an experience that will be unlike any before because of the coronavirus pandemic. The pilgrims will only be able to drink holy water from the Zamzam well …

Britain is to resume selling arms to Saudi Arabia despite assessing that the country could be using them to commit war crimes, the government has announced. International trade secretary Liz Truss said on Tuesday that the government had completed a review of how arms export licenses were granted in order …

Yemen’s army says its drones have hit targets in southwestern Saudi Arabia, following warnings that retaliatory attacks would hit deep in Saudi territory if the kingdom did not stop its aggression against the impoverished nation. The spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, said in a tweet that …

A cartoon published by the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, Friday, against the supreme religious authority, His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, sparked a wave of discontent and widespread denunciations. A large number of Iraqi politicians and Clerics joined by the leader of the Al-Fateh Coalition Hadi Al-Amri discontented, demanded to …

Twenty Saudi nationals have gone on trial in absentia in Turkey over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. Those being tried include two former top aides to Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Khashoggi was …

Lebanese media broadcast interviews with the U.S. ambassador on Sunday, ignoring a ruling by a judge who banned the diplomat from television for a year over meddling in Lebanese internal affairs In an interview with Saudi-owned AlHadath television on Friday, U.S. ambassador Dorothy Shea said Hezbollah’s behavior was preventing Lebanon …

Unicef has warned that millions of children could be pushed to the brink of starvation as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across war-torn Yemen amid a “huge” drop in humanitarian aid funding. It said the number of malnourished Yemeni children could reach 2.4 million by the end of the year, a …

Saudi Arabia said Monday that this year’s hajj will not be canceled, but that due to the coronavirus only “very limited numbers” of people will be allowed to perform the major Muslim pilgrimage. The kingdom said that only people of various nationalities already residing in the country would be allowed …

The Iraqi army in an unprecedented operation targeted and destroyed the ISIS terrorists’ bases and their weapons in a valley at the bordering areas with Saudi Arabia. News agencies reported on Monday that forces of the brigade 7th of the Iraqi army’s infantry unit in a preemptive measure attacked the …

Saudi Arabia has announced it will lift its nationwide curfew on Sunday, but says other restrictions will remain. Authorities say all economic and commercial activities will resume, but bans on international travel and religious pilgrimages will not change. The kingdom has not yet made any announcements about the annual Hajj …

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi is reportedly planned to visit Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the US in a bid to provide economic protection for his country. As Media reported, in his first round of trips to other countries as of getting appointed, Al-Kadhimi is set to visit the named countries …

An Egyptian astronomical institute revealed, today, that an earthquake hit an area in the red sea, 86 km east of Hurghada. In a statement, the National Institute for astronomical Research said that the earthquake occurred at 4 pm, with a magnitude of 5.2, at a depth of 10 km. In …

A World Trade Organization panel ordered Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to adhere to global intellectual property rules in a ruling on a dispute with Qatar which accuses Riyadh of blocking its broadcaster after the Gulf neighbors fell out in 2017. Doha filed its complaint in 2018, saying Saudi Arabia was …

Saudi Arabia has announced that it will make a decision on whether to cancel this year’s Hajj within a week. The development comes as another major Muslim nation, Malaysia, said that it would prohibit its pilgrims form making Hajj over coronavirus fears. The Financial Times reported that a senior official …

The Secretary-General of the “Asaib Ahl al-Haq” group, Qais Al-Khazali accused on Saturday, the Gulf States including Saudi Arabia as well as America and Israel of conspiring against Iraq by exceptional projects in which they had spent billions of dollars. “Six years ago our country was subjected to a special …