The Russian military has foiled a Ukrainian drone raid on Moscow Region, Russia's Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday. It added the attack had no casualties or damage.
Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, has lauded Tehran’s support for Yemen and its attempts to put an end to the suffering of the Yemeni nation in the face of the Saudi-led war.
Tor Wennesland, the UN’s special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, says he is “deeply alarmed by the continuing cycle of violence and appalled by the continued loss of civilian lives”. Four Israeli settlers and two Palestinians have been killed in the recent violence in the occupied West Bank.
Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine in February 2022 after the Western-leaning Kiev government turned a deaf ear to Moscow’s calls for its neighbor to maintain its neutrality. In the middle of the mayhem, Moscow and Kiev are trying to hammer out a peaceful solution to the conflict. Follow the latest about the Russia-Ukraine conflict here:
The Iranian foreign minister, in a meeting with with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hama, has called for a collective regional mechanism to enhance security of the Persian Gulf.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has told a Hamas delegation in Tehran headed by the movement’s leader Ismail Haniyah that the victories of the Palestinian resistance shows the Israeli regime’s claim about its deterrence power is false.
The United States has openly embraced the goal of destabilizing Russia, with an eye on the 2024 presidential election, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated. The remarks came after US President Joe Biden publicly declared that President Vladimir Putin of Russia “cannot remain in power."
A United Nations expert has stated that the treatment of Afghan women and girls by the Taliban could amount to “gender apartheid” as their rights continue to be undermined by the governing authorities. The Taliban have accused the UN of “spreading propaganda against the Islamic Emirate”.
Riyadh has executed a young man from the Shia-populated Qatif region over allegations of involvement in terrorist activities. Critics see the move as part of a heavy-handed crackdown led by Saudi Arabia’s crown prince against political dissidents.
Saud al-Qahtani, a former senior aide to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and a prime suspect in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, has been seen in public in the city of Jeddah, using a walking stick, for the first time since the Saudi journalist's 2018 assassination.
Israel has announced that hoped-for direct Hajj flights to Saudi Arabia would not happen this year, playing down any prospects of an imminent U.S.-mediated normalisation of relations with the kingdom.
Israeli forces have fatally shot another Palestinian youth during an attack on a village located west of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. It comes hours after Israeli troops killed five Palestinian people in the Jenin refugee camp.
Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine in February 2022 after the Western-leaning Kiev government turned a deaf ear to Moscow’s calls for its neighbor to maintain its neutrality. In the middle of the mayhem, Moscow and Kiev are trying to hammer out a peaceful solution to the conflict. Follow the latest about the Russia-Ukraine conflict here:
Qatar and the United Arab Emirates announced on Monday they had resumed diplomatic ties after six years and were reopening respective embassies with immediate effect.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday ended a high-stakes visit to Beijing with an unexpected meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. During the meeting, the china's leader stressed the world needs steady relations between Beijing and Washington after a period of simmering tensions.
Cairo has lashed out at the latest move by the European Union (EU) to cancel next week’s ministerial meeting with the Arab League over Syria’s readmission to the pan-Arab body. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has denounced the decision as regrettable.
An Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Monday has killed at least five Palestinians and wounded almost 60, with 10 in critical condition.
Israel’s hardline coalition government has approved plans for the construction of thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank. Given the far-right finance minister sweeping powers, Israel is to expedite the construction of illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, bypassing measures that have been in place for 27 years.
Moscow expects that an agreement on a free trade zone (FTA) between Tehran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) will be inked before the end of the year, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Alexey Overchuk has said.
Pakistani authorities have arrested 10 alleged human traffickers after it emerged that many of the migrants and refugees who drowned off Greece’s coast were from the South Asian nation. Islamabad has vowed the traffickers would be "severely punished."
Beijing-Washington relations have hit the lowest level since the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries, China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang said at a meeting with visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
