Turkish air strikes in drought-struck north-east Syria have cut off access to electricity and water for more than a million people, in what experts say may be a violation of international law.
Turkey carried out more than 100 attacks between October (...)
Fifteen people were killed and 16 others injured in Israeli strikes on Damascus in Syria marking one of the deadliest strikes in months to hit the Syrian capital, state media SANA said citing a military source and
The strikes targeted several (...)
The United Nations has accused Israel of "severe violations" of a 50-year-old agreement with Syria, saying it has engaged in "engineering groundwork activities" that encroach on a key buffer zone in the Golan Heights.
"Violations of the 1974 (...)
WASHINGTON — King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) Supervisor General Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah said that as many as 170 countries have benefited from the humanitarian and relief assistance, amounting to $133 billion, provided by (...)
Israel's far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has ordered preparations for the annexation of settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Smotrich, who is in charge of the settlements, said on Monday that he had instructed his department (...)
RIYADH — The Extraordinary Arab-Islamic summit, which concluded in Riyadh on Monday, underlined the need to mobilize international support to freeze Israel's participation in the United Nations General Assembly and its affiliated bodies. It also (...)
At the wheel of an ambulance, Samir El Chekieh drives with sirens wailing to the latest Israeli air strike in El Karak in the Bekaa Valley, eastern Lebanon.
The 32-year-old firefighter and paramedic with the Lebanese Civil Defense Force (CDF) only (...)
RIYADH — Syrian Air announced the resumption of its flights between Damascus International Airport and King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah from Thursday, November 7, according to the Syrian News Agency.
Director General of Syrian Airlines (...)
Israeli strikes have killed 19 people, including eight women, around Lebanon's eastern city of Baalbek, the country's health ministry has said.
It came hours after tens of thousands of residents fled in response to evacuation orders issued by the (...)
The area of land surface affected by drought has trebled since the 1980s, a new report into the effects of climate change has revealed.
Forty-eight percent of the Earth's land surface had at least one month of extreme drought last year, according to (...)
People in war-torn Gaza are already struggling with a deep humanitarian crisis — but now they fear it will get much more difficult because of Israel's ban on the biggest UN agency that operates there.
"UNRWA means everything to us: it is our life, (...)
The European Commission has urged Israel to repeal its recently adopted legislation that bans the UN's Palestine aid agency from operating in the country and forbids Israeli officials from engaging with it.
The ban, the Commission said, is (...)
Israel's parliament has voted to ban a nearly eight-decade-old United Nations agency that provides essential services for Palestinian refugees, a move that could have devastating consequences for millions of Palestinians living under Israeli (...)
Syrian air defense systems successfully intercepted an Israeli missile attack early Saturday, according to the state-run Sana news agency.
The strikes targeted military sites in the southern and central regions of Syria, with the assault commencing (...)
JEDDAH — The Saudi national football team has fallen three places in the latest FIFA monthly rankings, landing at 59th in the world after previously holding the 56th position.
This decline follows disappointing results in the World Cup 2026 (...)
Turkey's government says its military struck sites on Wednesday night in Iraq and Syria linked to Kurdish militant group the PKK, after blaming it for an attack near Ankara that killed at least five people.
Various videos from the attack earlier on (...)
RIYADH — The General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) President Abdulaziz Al-Duailej announced on Monday that Saudi Arabia is solidifying its position as a global leader in search and rescue operations. "Saudi Arabia has proposed the designation (...)
The air strike that killed the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah shook the earth for hundreds of metres in every direction.
A few blocks away, in the Beirut suburb known as the Dahieh, Mehdi Moussawi thought his own building was falling down.
From (...)
The European Union has urged its member states to respond to Lebanon's request for medical equipment and medications following the Israeli ground operation in the southern part of the country.
EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides and Crisis (...)
TUNIS — The King Abdullah International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) is launching the annual meeting of the Steering Committee of the Interfaith Dialogue and Cooperation Platform (IPDC), on Tuesday in Tunisia.
The (...)
AMMAN — Saudi Ambassador to Jordan Naif Al-Sudairi presented on Tuesday a check to UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini as a contribution from Saudi Arabia to support programs and operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for (...)
US President Joe Biden has held a much-anticipated call with Israel's prime minister — believed to be their first dialogue in weeks.
Benjamin Netanyahu and President Biden are thought to have discussed Israel's response to Iran's missile attack last (...)
Lebanon's prime minister at the time of its last war with Israel in 2006 has said his country has been abandoned by the international community.
Fouad Siniora said it was unacceptable to leave Lebanon to fall, and there was a lack of initiative when (...)
RIYADH — A Yemeni government delegation, led by Prime Minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, visited the headquarters of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) in Riyadh on Wednesday.
During the visit, the Yemeni prime minister was (...)
One million people in Lebanon have "moved from place to place in just a few days," the country's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Monday as Israeli strikes in the country continue.
"We must not forget the significant displacement (...)
