Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Wednesday that Iran must stop "meddling" in the region's affairs and asking for dialogue so that the security of Arab Gulf countries is not be threatened. (Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, ...
TEHRAN, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday gestured "friendship" between two major Muslim states of Iran and Saudi Arabia. Rouhani urged Saudi Arabia to cease what he called their "hostile" policies towards the Islamic republic, Press TV reported. He said Iran ...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has said he supports Saudi Arabia in its standoff with Iran, but he does not want to see the tensions turn into an open military confrontation between the two rivals. "We support our [Saudi] brothers," Sisi said at a meeting with journalists in Sharm el ...
TEHRAN, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday urged Saudi Arabia to cease what he called their "hostile" policies towards the Islamic republic, Press TV reported. Rouhani said Iran supports development of regional countries, including Saudi Arabia, adding that "there ...
Saudi border guards keep watch along the border with Yemen/ Saudi border guards keep watch along the border with Yemen (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine)/ Riyadh (AFP) - The United States called Tuesday for international action to hold Iran to account after Saudi Arabia accused Tehran of "direct ...
Iran and Lebanon, two countries targeted by Saudi Arabia's recent efforts to consolidate power at home and abroad, have rejected Riyadh's statements suggesting the two countries had declared war against the kingdom. After a tumultuous weekend that saw a missile intercepted over Riyadh, the ...
A still image taken from a video distributed by Yemen's pro-Houthi Al Masirah television station on November 5, 2017, shows what it says was the launch by Houthi forces of a ballistic missile aimed at Riyadh's King Khaled Airport on Saturday, Houthi Military Media Unit via REUTERS TV/ UNITED ...
Iran's judiciary has suspended publication of a hard-line conservative newspaper over a provocative front-page story that suggested Dubai could become the next target of a missile attack by Yemen's Huthi rebels after they fired rockets at the Saudi capital. The prosecutor's office said on ...
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has warned Saudi Arabia that threats against Iran will achieve nothing as tensions continue to rise between the regional rivals. "You know the might and place of the Islamic republic," Rohani said at a cabinet meeting in Tehran on November 8, referring to Saudi ...
In this Aug. 25, 2017 file photo, boys stand on the rubble of a house destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen. The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen is blaming a rebel missile launch on Iran and warning it could be "considered as an act of war." Early Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, the ...
Saudi Arabia is more aggressively confronting its rival Iran on multiple fronts. It's a policy that risks sharpening several conflicts in the Middle East, even though so far it has failed to score any successes in stemming Tehran's influence. The bolder steps are largely seen as the work of the ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that missile attacks by Yemen’s Houthis targeting Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh were a reaction to what he called Saudi aggression./ (L-R, back) Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani and Azerbaijan's President Ilham ...
hard-line Iranian newspaper Kayhan is known for making inflammatory statements that often go against the government's official line. When on November 6 the daily said on its front page that Dubai could become the next target of a missile attack by Yemen's Huthis after Riyadh came under attack, ...
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Iran’s supply of rockets to militias in Yemen is an act of “direct military aggression” that could be an act of war, state media reported on Tuesday./ FILE PHOTO: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, attends the Future Investment Initiative conference in ...
on Wednesday that it will achieve nothing by threatening the might of Iran, as a war of words between the regional heavyweights intensifies. "You know the might and place of the Islamic republic. People more powerful than you have been unable to do anything against the Iranian people," Rouhani ...
The chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has dismissed as "baseless" the allegations leveled by US President Donald Trump about the Islamic Republic's provision of missiles to Yemeni forces. "Trump's claims about providing Yemen with missiles by the Islamic Republic ...
Families of Israeli hostages still being held by Hamas have said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the "one obstacle" preventing their return and reaching a peace deal. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum wrote on social media that Israel's strike on Qatar last week shows "every time a ...
Nasser Faratawi's West Bank property was taken over by the IDF in March/ Nasser Faratawi holds up a blackened garland of silicone flowers and a singed Ramadan lantern as he picks through the charred ruins of what was his popular party shop in Tulkarm in the north of the occupied West Bank. ...
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told the council that Israel was "led by blusterous extremists"/ The United Nations Security Council has condemned Israel's strikes on a residential compound in the Qatari capital Doha, which targeted senior members of Hamas. The ...
Israel's military operation in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of people, destroyed thousands of buildings, and severely restricted the supply of food. The operation was launched after Hamas rampaged through villages, military posts and a music festival in Israel on 7 October 2023, killing ...
A large plume of smoke billowed from the site of one of Wednesday's strikes in Sanaa/ At least 35 people were killed in Israeli air strikes on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Wednesday, according to the Iran-backed group's health ministry. The Israeli military said it struck military targets ...
CCTV captures moment of Israeli attack on Hamas leaders in Doha/ Qatari authorities say they are still searching for two missing people and identifying human remains after an Israeli strike targeted senior Hamas leaders in Doha on Tuesday. Israeli media have reported that there is concern in ...
BBC correspondent Lucy Williamson reports from southern Gaza/ Israel has ordered the entire population of Gaza City to leave, as its forces prepare to capture the north of the Gaza Strip. Israeli airstrikes have continued to destroy tower blocks, and the army says it now has operational control ...
The Qatari capital, Doha, is back to normal today, with traffic moving on the highways, and skyscrapers shimmering in the heat. But there are new tensions across the Middle East, and a key question – what red lines now remain for Israel in its pursuit of Hamas, if any? Targeting Hamas on the ...
CCTV captures moment of Israeli attack on Hamas leaders in Doha/ Almost exactly a year ago I interviewed the Hamas leader and chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya in Doha. I met him in a house not far from the building that Israel attacked on Tuesday afternoon. From the beginning of the war in Gaza, ...
Part of the Global Sumud Flotilla pictured off the coast of Sidi Bou Said port in Tunisia/ Tunisian authorities have denied claims that one of the Gaza-bound vessels carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists including Greta Thunberg was attacked by a drone. The organisers of the flotilla, ...