Arab leaders are set to meet in Saudi Arabia on Friday for the first time to formulate a response to US President Donald Trump's plan for the US to take ownership of Gaza, expel its Palestinian population and turn it into a Middle Eastern (...)
RIYADH — Saudi airports handled a record 128 million travelers in 2024, marking a 15 percent increase from the previous year and a 25 percent rise compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to the Air Traffic 2024 Report released by the General (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman will hold an informal fraternal meeting with leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El Sisi in Riyadh (...)
Egyptologists have discovered the first tomb of a pharaoh since Tutankhamun's was uncovered over a century ago.
King Thutmose II's tomb was the last undiscovered royal tomb of the 18th Egyptian dynasty.
A British-Egyptian team has located it in the (...)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said his country is developing a plan to rebuild Gaza without forcing Palestinians out of the strip in a counter to President Donald Trump's proposal to depopulate the territory so the US can take it over. (...)
CAIRO — Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said that five Saudi projects in the fields of renewable energy spanning solar and wind energy are going operational in Egypt.
Addressing the opening session of the 8th edition of Egypt (...)
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to "finish the job" against Iran with the support of US President Donald Trump.
Netanyahu was speaking alongside US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is visiting Israel on his first (...)
Israel's prime minister has said he is working to make US President Donald Trump's plan to remove and resettle Gaza's population "a reality".
Benjamin Netanyahu said he was cooperating with the US on a "common strategy" for the Palestinian territory (...)
Malaysia and Egypt have firmly rejected any plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza, stressing that such moves would undermine Palestinian statehood and violate fundamental rights.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Friday night that he (...)
The Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has looked shaky since it came into force on 19 January but now looks the closest yet to totally falling apart.
A senior Egyptian source told the BBC that regional mediators Egypt and Qatar were (...)
Egypt has said it is working on a "comprehensive vision" for the reconstruction of the war-torn Gaza Strip that guarantees Palestinians the right to stay on their land, unlike the proposal put forward by US President Donald Trump.
The Egyptian (...)
CAIRO — Saudi Deputy Ambassador to Egypt Abdulrahman Al-Dahas delivered the shares of Saudi Aa's Project for Utilization of Hady and Adahi (sacrificial meat) to Egypt and Palestine.
The shares of 30,000 sacrificial animals were handed over to Egypt (...)
The Palestinian president has said he strongly rejects President Donald Trump's proposal for the US to take over Gaza and permanently resettle the 2.1 million Palestinians living there.
"We will not allow the rights of our people... to be infringed (...)
CAIRO — Saudi Arabia's Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission concluded participation in Cairo International Book Fair 2025, which was held in the Egyptian capital from January 23 to February 5.
The Saudi pavilion received a large turnout (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Council of Ministers reaffirmed its support for facilitating the safe return of displaced Palestinians to their homes in the Gaza Strip. Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman chaired the Cabinet session in Riyadh on (...)
CAIRO — Amid rising concerns over the potential forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, the six-party Arab ministerial meeting in Cairo reaffirmed its categorical rejection of any such move and emphasized the need for the full implementation (...)
After 15 months of war that began with a brutal attack on Israel by Hamas and ended with much of the Gaza Strip leveled by Israel, a ceasefire came into effect on Sunday that saw three women hostages released from Gaza and 90 Palestinians freed from (...)
Israel's security cabinet approved the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal on Friday. The wider cabinet will convene for a vote on the deal to exchange dozens of hostages held by Hamas for Palestinians in Israeli jails and pause the 15-month war (...)
A Russian passenger plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Egypt on Friday shortly after takeoff due to a technical malfunction, according to Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry. The Ural Airlines Airbus A-321, en route to Yekaterinburg, (...)
CAIRO — The Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources, Bandar Al-Khorayef, has concluded an official visit to Egypt aimed at enhancing cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Egypt in the fields of industry, mining, food, and medicine.
During (...)
CAIRO — Saudi Minister of Culture Prince Badr bin Abdullah met with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo on Tuesday. This was in line with the directives of the Saudi leadership.
Prince Badr conveyed the greetings of Custodian of the Two (...)
CAIRO — Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Al-Khorayef began an official visit to Egypt, aiming to develop cooperation in the industry and mining sectors, as well as in food and medicine.
Al-Khorayef will hold meetings with government (...)
Armed clashes broke out Sunday in the western Libyan city of Zawiya, trapping residents in their homes and causing significant damage to the country's second-largest oil refinery, according to officials.
The fighting involved gunmen loyal to the (...)
CAIRO — Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan said that the repercussions of the ongoing escalation and the regional expansion of the conflict portend the grave danger of a full-scale war that would be difficult to contain. (...)
Egyptian rescuers found four bodies and five survivors on Tuesday during a Red Sea search operation after a tourist boat carrying 44 people sank on Monday.
A total of 33 people have been rescued so far but seven were still missing as of Tuesday (...)
