Israeli airstrikes on the Syrian city of Aleppo early Monday killed an Iranian military adviser, according to Iranian media.
CNN has contacted the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for comment, but it does not regularly acknowledge strikes.
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JEDDAH — As many as 127 international companies have relocated their regional headquarters to Saudi Arabia during the first quarter of 2024. These figures showed a giant leap of 477 percent compared to the same period in 2023. This confirms that the (...)
RIYADH —Dr. Muhammad Soussan, Syrian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, revealed that the operation of scheduled flight service between Syria and Saudi Arabia will be resumed after the current Hajj season. The re-start of flight services between Damascus (...)
DAMMAM — The first group of Syrian pilgrims arrived in Makkah on Tuesday, the Saudi Press Agency reported. There are more than 200 pilgrims in the first batch of Syrian pilgrims who arrived in the Kingdom after a hiatus of 12 years.
Maktab 60 of the (...)
GENEVA — The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) signed five agreements with the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva on Saturday. This is to provide $19.5 million in funding to WHO programs in three countries: Yemen ($9.5 (...)
RIYADH — Dr. Faisal bin Saud Al-Mujfel has been appointed ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Syria.
Al-Mujfel extended his thanks, appreciation and gratitude to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed (...)
Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, has been diagnosed with leukemia, the Syrian presidency announced on Tuesday.
This comes nearly five years after she declared a full recovery from breast cancer.
According to the statement, Asma, 48, will undergo a (...)
RIYADH — Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, advisor at the Royal Court and supervisor general of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), called on the international community to establish a Global Humanitarian Aviation Council that would (...)
MANAMA — The Arab League Summit called for immediate withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from the Gaza Strip and deployment of international peacekeeping forces in the occupied Palestinian territories.
In a joint communique, called "Manama (...)
MANAMA — Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan said that the Israeli occupation forces' ongoing aggression and violation of all international laws and norms in the Gaza Strip has exacerbated the scale of the humanitarian (...)
RIYADH — "I welcomed these children as if they were angels or doves of peace. I embraced them and was overwhelmed with joy to see the end of these children's suffering," says Saudi speech and language therapist Ashwaq Al-Qahtani.
She is working with (...)
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the move on Thursday morning following a meeting with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides in Lebanon's capital, Beirut.
The financial (...)
New York City's Columbia University has begun suspending students involved in a pro-Palestinian protest on campus after they defied a deadline to disperse.
College leaders earlier warned those who failed to disband from the two-week encampment by (...)
Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University have escalated their protest over the war in Gaza by occupying an academic building.
Activists at the university in New York City seized Hamilton Hall early on Tuesday, barricading (...)
Australian police have arrested seven teenagers as part of a wave of counter-terrorism raids across Sydney, claiming it was "likely" the youths may have been plotting an attack.
The suspects are believed to share a "religiously motivated violent (...)
An unclaimed aerial attack in central Iran on Friday comes fresh on the heels of tit-for-tat Iranian and Israeli strikes earlier this month, marking a potentially dangerous escalation of the Middle East conflict.
Israel carried out the strike inside (...)
The day after the stabbing attack on a bishop, a forensics expert was sweeping a fingerprint brush over a nativity scene by the entrance of the Sydney church.
A small car parked outside Christ The Good Shepherd Church had its window screen smashed (...)
David Cameron has urged Israeli leaders to do "as little as possible to escalate" tensions in the Middle East on a visit to Jerusalem.
The UK foreign secretary made the comments ahead of his meeting with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel has (...)
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has sent a cable of congratulations to Syrian Arab Republic President Bashar Al-Assad on his country's Evacuation Day.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques wished Al-Assad continued good health and (...)
Australian police have declared Monday's stabbing at a Sydney church a religiously motivated "terrorist act".
A 16-year-old boy was arrested after a bishop, a priest and churchgoers were attacked during mass at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd (...)
Israel was set to take its first steps towards a ground offensive on the Gaza city of Rafah but delayed that campaign after Iran's weekend attack on their country, which has sparked a heated debate in the war cabinet over how to respond, Israeli (...)
Fresh US aid for Ukraine will be put to a vote separately to the question of new military assistance for Israel, House Speaker Mike Johnson said.
Johnson has stalled a House vote on a $96bn package aimed at helping both US allies, while he faces (...)
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that Washington expects to hit Iran with new sanctions "in the coming days" following its unprecedented attack on Israel last weekend.
Yellen said Iran's oil exports "remain in focus as a possible area" they (...)
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said Tel Aviv must do everything necessary to protect the state "at the time and in the way we in Israel choose to do so".
Hagari said the Iranian attack was "thwarted with the iron defense (...)
The White House has warned Israel that the US will not participate in any retaliatory strikes on Iran, senior administration officials have said.
Over 300 drones and missiles were fired at Israel overnight, which Iran said was in response to an 1 (...)