The head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Bill Burns was in Saudi Arabia this week to meet with officials and reinforce Washington’s commitment to intelligence cooperation, a US official told Al Arabiya English on Wednesday. “Director Burns traveled to Saudi Arabia, where he met with intelligence counterparts and country leaders on shared interests,” the official said. […]
Khalid Aydd Ahmad Al-Jabouri was responsible for planning attacks into Europe and developed the leadership structure for Daesh
The Israeli army said it downed an unidentified aircraft on Sunday that appeared to have crossed into its territory from Syria, as tensions simmer between the two countries. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement the aircraft it downed did not pose a threat at any stage. Israel has for years carried out attacks against […]
Participants in a discussion hosted by the Middle East Institute said the first three months of the far-right government led by Benjamin Netanyahu have been ‘chaotic’ and its policies are ‘racist’
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Friday one of its officers stationed in Syria was killed in an Israeli strike near Damascus earlier in the day. “At dawn today, Friday, Milad Heydari, one of the IRGC’s military advisors in Syria, was martyred in a criminal attack by the Zionist regime near Damascus,” the […]
Houthis attacked Shabwa Defense Forces on Saturday in a range of mountains
The death toll from US strikes on Iran-linked groups in Syria following a deadly drone attack has risen to 19, a war monitor said Saturday, as Damascus accused Washington of lying about its “vicious attack.” Further rocket attacks by Iran-backed militias took place late Friday, prompting more strikes by coalition warplanes, the Syrian Observatory for […]
India is not looking at increasing air traffic rights for the United Arab Emirates, despite calls by Gulf carriers, and wants its domestic airlines to offer non-stop long-haul flights, its civil aviation minister told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. The UAE has urged India to increase the maximum number of seats between the two […]
UN envoy Hans Grundberg said the prisoner exchange is one more reason to be optimistic that things are finally moving in the right direction in Yemen
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said that Tehran hoped for steps to be made towards the normalization of ties with Bahrain, state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday. Bahrain had cut ties with Iran back in 2016, in support of and solidarity with Saudi Arabia after its embassy was attacked in Tehran and the Kingdom […]
