Saudi Arabia unveils 2018 pilgrimage media plan
Saudi Culture and Information Minister Awwad Alawwad on Friday unveiled the kingdom’s pilgrimage media plan for 2018 (year 1439 on the Hijri calendar). Alawwad unveiled…
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Palestinians converge along Gaza-Israel buffer zone
Hundreds of Palestinian demonstrators on Friday returned to the Gaza-Israel buffer zone, where for the last four months they have been staging regular anti-occupation rallies….
Yemen’s security forces confiscate drugs coming from Lebanon to Houthis
Yemeni security forces in Marib governorate confiscated a shipment of drugs coming from Lebanon, on its way to the Houthi militias in the capital Sanaa,…
UN peacekeepers back on Golan Heights
Accompanied by the Russian military police, UN peacekeeping forces patrolled Thursday the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights for the first time since 2014, Russian General Staff spokesman…
Iranians take to streets in capital over economic woes
Iranians on Thursday took to the streets in the capital Tehran over rising inflation and high cost of living in the country. People gathered at…
Israel marks launch of Jewish center in Jerusalem
Israel on Wednesday marked the launch of a new Jewish heritage center in Jerusalem. The center, which will cost over $1 million, will be housed…
Amnesty accuses Turkey of tolerating Syrian rebel abuses in Afrin
Amnesty International on Thursday accused Turkish forces of allowing Syrian armed groups to commit major rights abuses in the northern region of Afrin, urging Ankara…
Turkey: Arrest warrants issued for 27 FETO suspects
Turkish prosecutors on Thursday issued arrest warrants for 27 soldiers suspected of being members to FETO, the terror group behind the 2016 defeated coup in…
Israel ‘caught off guard’ by Trump’s offer to meet Iran’s Rouhani
President Donald Trump’s offer to hold talks with Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani has taken Israel’s intelligence community by surprise, Israel’s debkafile news website said. Israel’s diplomatic and intelligence services…
Iran readying massive military exercise in Persian Gulf, officials say
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard forces are expected to begin a major exercise in the Persian Gulf as soon as within the next 48 hours that…