Spokesperson for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Talaat Fahmy on Thursday welcomed the results of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit. The summit led to a reconciliation between Qatar and its...
Saudi Arabia's oil production cut will last a further two months coming to an end in April, the kingdom's energy ministry has announced. Speaking in a televised interview with Bloomberg yesterday,...
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Dr Adnan Abu Amer At the time when the Gulf reconciliation was announced, a number of Israeli positions emerged. Security, military, and political parties close to the decision-making circles in Tel Aviv diverged...
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US The British government has appointed Richard Oppenheim as its new envoy to the Saudi-based, UN-recognised Yemeni government. Oppenheim currently serves as the deputy head of the UK's Riyadh mission,...
A former employee of the Twitter social media site, who is accused of spying for Saudi Arabia against its critics, is fighting for the charges against him to be...
Head of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez Al-Sarraj has welcomed the outcomes of the Gulf summit held on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia, which he believes: "Succeeded...
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UAE The Houthi rebel group said Wednesday it had downed a Saudi spy drone in northern Yemen, Anadolu reports. "The air defense downed an unmanned spy plane on Wednesday...
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister confirmed that the kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain reopened their air, land and sea borders to Qatar after the countries ended their three-year...

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January 6, 2021 |
Hazem Ayyad The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in the Saudi Arabian city of Al-Ula has ended the blockade imposed on Qatar by the Kingdom, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt in...
Saudi Arabia has awarded an Irish aviation company as the operator of a landmark airport by the Red Sea, making it the latest development in the kingdom's ambitious Red Sea Project. The Ireland-based...
Images and footage of a paralysed and severely malnourished Yemeni boy, Faid Samim, have circulated on social media and highlighted the growing humanitarian cost of the US-backed, Saudi-led coalition's...
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January 6, 2021 |
Motasem A Dalloul Media reports revealed last month that Turkey has been working to restore relations with Israel. On 9 December, Al-Monitor said that Ankara had selected a new ambassador to Tel...
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US The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) yesterday welcomed measures announced on Monday to finalise reconciliation among member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), group spokesman, Talaat Fahmi, said in a statement. Fahmi...
Progress in the talks between Egypt and the Gulf States that boycotted Qatar do not mean full reconciliation, the New Khaleej reported Egyptian media saying yesterday. Reporting the Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk, the New...
Former Qatari Prime Minister Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al Thani said lessons need to be learnt from the Gulf crisis which was resolved earlier this week in order...
Egypt sent its foreign minister to a summit of Gulf Arab leaders on Tuesday that produced a pledge towards ending a regional dispute with Qatar, while Qatar's finance minister...
Turkey's Foreign Ministry today welcomed the end of the three-year Gulf crisis, Anadolu reports. "This step constitutes a very important step in solving the conflict ongoing since June 2017," the ministry...
The Saudi Ministry of Justice said as many as 40,000 marriage contracts have been concluded since the launching of the electronic marriage contract service in September 2019. At the...
More than 1,146 Houthi fighters were killed or wounded during clashes in the southwestern province of Taiz in 2020, the army of the internationally backed Yemen government said on...
Hamas yesterday congratulated Saudi Arabia and Qatar following the announcement that the Gulf states had brought to an end an almost four year blockade on Doha. "We hope that the crisis...
Saudi Arabia is re-opening its air, land and sea borders with Qatar after a 3-year embargo
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Videos & Photo Stories Aden International Airport reopened yesterday after a Houthi-led missile attack on the terminal last week, local media has reported. The attack took place on Wednesday moments after new cabinet...
Saudi Arabia on Sunday reopened all sea, land, and air borders, which were closed on December 20, 2020 due to a new variant of the coronavirus, reports Anadolu Agency....
Saudi-led coalition warplanes struck targets in Yemen's Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Thursday, hours before the end of the year, in retaliation for attacks in the southern port city of...
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January 2, 2021 |
Yasser Abu Hilalah The Bahraini provocations in Qatar, in the form of breaching sea and air borders, came with an Emirati incitement to thwart Gulf reconciliation – or Saudi-Qatari reconciliation to be...

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US A Saudi court has sentenced preacher Yousef Al-Ahmad, who has been detained since September 2017, to four years in prison. The ruling also included a travel ban for four...
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Iraq and Lebanon on Thursday condemned the Wednesday's bombings in Yemen's Aden airport, Anadolu Agency reported. In a statement, GCC Secretary General Nayef Al-Hajraf expressed his...
An official in Yemen's Houthi-led National Salvation Government (NSG) has reiterated that Saudi pilots currently being held captive will only be released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in the...
The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) has reportedly refused to take part in the Saudi-supported Yemeni government's probe into yesterday's deadly attack at Aden airport as the recently formed unity government...
Three explosions hit Aden International Airport in southern Yemen as the newly formed power sharing government arrived at the airport from Saudi Arabia, Anadolu news agency reported. At least 22 people...
The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Force, Major General Esmail Qaani, criticised Saudi Arabia over what he said was the kingdom's "subordination to the United States". Speaking...