JEDDAH: “Three million people — two-thirds of them women and children — are counting on your support to make this violence stop,” said Mark Lowcock, the UN’s emergency relief coordinator, to the Security Council on Thursday on the situation in northwest Syria. Lowcock’s plea is the latest in a long line of impassioned appeals by…
GAZA CITY: A Palestinian wounded during clashes with Israeli troops along the Gaza-Israel border died on Saturday, the Health Ministry in the blockaded coastal enclave said. Badreddin Abu Musa, 25, was “hit by a bullet to the head (in Friday’s clashes) and died this morning,” ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said in a statement. Abu Musa was…
ADEN: A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed six southern separatist fighters on Friday on the outskirts of the Yemeni city of Aden, the site of a surge of violence that had complicated the near five-year-old war and undermined peace efforts.Daesh claimed responsibility for the assault on the patrol from the Security Belt group, part…
VIENNA: Iran has gone further in breaching its nuclear deal with world powers, increasing its stock of enriched uranium while still refining to a greater purity than allowed, a UN atomic watchdog agency report showed on Friday.The International Atomic Energy Agency, which is policing the 2015 deal, said in July that Iran had exceeded both…
BEIRUT: Syria and its ally Russia have stepped up an offensive against the last big stronghold of Syrian opposition fighters, mounting more air raids and deploying ground reinforcements including Iranian-backed militias, army defectors and residents said on Friday. The Russian-led alliance is pushing into densely populated parts of Idlib province in the northwest where millions of…
ISTANBUL: Three pro-Kurdish mayors sacked by the Turkish government this month over alleged links to militants lambasted on Thursday a “political putsch” they vowed to challenge in court. The mayors of the eastern cities — all members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) elected in March — were removed on Aug. 19 over alleged ties…
ISTANBUL: Three pro-Kurdish mayors sacked by the Turkish government this month over alleged links to militants lambasted on Thursday a “political putsch” they vowed to challenge in court. The mayors of the eastern cities — all members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) elected in March — were removed on Aug. 19 over alleged ties…
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters that Turkey would demand a smaller safe zone in Syria. His comments follow meetings with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Erdogan said: “I told Defense Minister Hulusi Akar that we should begin to work with what (the Americans had proposed). Then we can do what is…
BEIRUT: Kuwait’s Ambassador to Lebanon Abdel Aal Al-Qenaei said that Arab states support Lebanon’s stability and are concerned about its security. He confirmed support for all measures and policies Lebanon takes to protect its security, stability and territorial integrity. Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri met with Arab envoys on Wednesday as part of efforts to…
BEIRUT: Kuwait’s Ambassador to Lebanon Abdel Aal Al-Qenaei said that Arab states support Lebanon’s stability and are concerned about its security. He confirmed support for all measures and policies Lebanon takes to protect its security, stability and territorial integrity. Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri met with Arab envoys on Wednesday as part of efforts to…
DUBAI: An abandoned oil tanker anchored off war-torn Yemen that is degrading along with its cargo could explode and cause an environmental disaster, experts said Wednesday as UN inspectors prepared to visit.The ship “Safer,” used as a floating storage platform, is laden with some 1.1 million barrels of crude oil and has been stranded with…
DUBAI: Kuwait and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations have teamed up to help farmers and herders in Syria recover from the setbacks dealt by war. This month, Kuwait contributed $3 million to benefit about 20,000 highly vulnerable people and their extended families by boosting their food security and nutrition situation.…
GAZA CITY: In the Gaza Strip, concerns are growing that war with Israel may be on the horizon once again. Tension in the region is higher than normal, following a series of incidents that has led the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) to ramp up operations, coming, it says, in response to rockets fired by Hamas…
Iraqi PM’s government facing collapse over Israeli airstrikes: Military and political officials BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi’s government could be toppled within weeks in the wake of a series of strikes on targets associated with paramilitary groups linked to Iran, sources claim. Government officials, comman-ders of armed factions and observers told Arab News on Tuesday…
DUBAI: For quite some time now, experts have been warning that water scarcity is a potential cause for conflict and migration as it increasingly threatens people, livelihoods and businesses worldwide. Now, a report by the World Resources Institute (WRI) says 12 of the 17 most water-stressed countries in the world are located in the Middle…
DUBAI: For quite some time now, experts have been warning that water scarcity is a potential cause for conflict and migration as it increasingly threatens people, livelihoods and businesses worldwide. Now, a report by the World Resources Institute (WRI) says 12 of the 17 most water-stressed countries in the world are located in the Middle…
Trump says Egypt ‘very important’ to Middle East peace process during El-Sisi G7 meeting LONDON: US President Donald Trump praised his Egyptian counterpart on Monday and said he was a “very important” figure in the US Middle East peace plan. The comments came a day after the Palestinian Authority condemned the US State Department for removing…
AL-KHAZER/IRAQ: Her tent is bare, she is unemployed and her family relies on food donations. But Nihaya Issa was forced to pick an Iraqi camp over the unlivable ruins of her native city Mosul. The northern city was freed from Daesh’s grip more than two years ago, but tens of thousands of Iraqis who fled Mosul…
BEIRUT: Anger erupted in Lebanon on Sunday after two Israeli drones crashed in south Beirut in a botched raid that was the most serious military escalation since 2006. The first device, thought to be a surveillance drone, fell to ground between residential buildings in the Mouawad area after children threw stones at it. Israel is…
BEIRUT: Anger erupted in Lebanon on Sunday after two Israeli drones crashed in south Beirut in a botched raid that was the most serious military escalation since 2006. The first device, thought to be a surveillance drone, fell to ground between residential buildings in the Mouawad area after children threw stones at it. Israel is…
