Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a press conference in Berlin, on January 15, 2015 (AFP Photo/John MacDougall)/ Riyadh (AFP) - Iran's foreign minister arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday for a rare visit to the regional rival, bringing condolences after the death of ...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — World leaders and top dignitaries are heading to Saudi Arabia to give their condolences following the death of King Abdullah. The king, who presided over Saudi Arabia for around two decades, died early Friday and was buried that same afternoon in the capital Riyadh. ...
Neighbors' instability, plunging oil prices, demands at home pose challenges for Saudi king/ In this photo provided by the Saudi Press Agency, Saudi Arabia's newly enthroned King Salman, right, talks with Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah during the funeral of Salman's half ...
Iranian officials offered condolences Friday to Saudi Arabia upon the death of King Abdullah, with one former president wishing Riyadh's new leader "success in consolidating the unity of the Islamic world."/ Iran said Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif would take part in an official ceremony ...
Saudi Arabia buried King Abdullah Friday as foreign leaders gathered in the capital for the funeral of the ruler of the world's top oil exporter and the spiritual home of Islam./ Abdullah, a cautious reformer who led his kingdom through a turbulent decade in a region shaken by the Arab Spring ...
Saudi Arabia is expected to remain a close ally of the West in the fight against Islamic extremism and maintain a wary relationship with rival Iran following the death of King Abdullah, analysts say./ Riyadh is part of a US-led coalition carrying out air strikes against Islamic State group ...
A U.S. Marine holds the car door for Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdelaziz (R) as he arrives at the White House before a dinner with U.S. President George W. Bush for the participants in the G20 Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy in Washington, November 14, 2008./ (Reuters) - ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and others offered official condolences on the death of Saudi King Abdullah, but not much more was said publicly. (Vahid Salemi / Associated Press)/ In Iran, Saudi Arabia's long-time rival, King Abdullah's death brings little expectation for change/ Iranian ...
Saudi government has crumbled amid sectarian unrest/ Saudi Arabia also faces difficulties in its cold war with Iran and the fight against ISIS/ The country's internal issues include the pace of reform and long-term succession/ King Salman of Saudi Arabia has inherited the throne from his older ...
Tasnim agency/ Jan 23 (Reuters) - Shi'ite-dominated Iran expressed condolences on Friday over the death of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. Relations between Tehran and Riyadh have been tense ever since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution ...
Saudi Arabia will bury King Abdullah in an unmarked grave on Friday, hours after it moved to ensure a smooth transition by appointing a new king and crown prince to quell fears of dynastic instability at a time of regional turmoil. Abdullah's successor, King Salman, now takes over as the ...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — His changes looked minute to the outside world. But in a kingdom where ultra-conservative Muslim clerics have long held a lock on all aspects of society, King Abdullah's incremental reforms echoed mightily./ When Abdullah took the unprecedented step of opening a new ...
In this Wednesday, June 3, 2009 file photo, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, right, speaks with U.S. President Barack Obama, during arrival ceremonies at the Royal Terminal of King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On early Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, Saudi state TV reported King ...
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah died early on Friday and his brother Salman became king, the royal court in the world's top oil exporter and birthplace of Islam said in a statement carried by state television. King Salman has named his half-brother Muqrin as his crown prince and heir, rapidly ...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, the powerful U.S. ally who joined Washington's fight against al-Qaida and sought to modernize the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom with incremental but significant reforms, including nudging open greater opportunities for women, has died, ...
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah died early on Friday and his brother Salman became king, the royal court in the world's top oil exporter and birthplace of Islam said in a statement carried by state television. King Salman has named his half-brother Muqrin as his crown prince and heir. "His Highness ...
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, born the year the first motorcar bumped through the dusty streets of Riyadh, left a modernizing legacy of cautious social and economic reform. King Abdullah, thought to have been born in 1924, had ruled Saudi Arabia as king since 2006, but had run the ...
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud arrives at Haneda airport in Tokyo in this file photo from February 18, 2014. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has died, state television reported early on Friday and his brother Salman became king, it said in a statement attributed to Salman ...
There may be economic and political rivalries within the dynasty. But its collective interest is in keeping the oil-rich nation on its longstanding course./ What does the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, de facto ruler since 1996 and formerly 2005-14, mean for the world, and the region?/ ...
– Iran's foreign minister arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday bringing condolences after the death of King Abdullah, television pictures showed. Saudi officials greeted Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif after he landed at a military airport in the capital Riyadh. Zarif has previously ...
RIYADH/DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's new Crown Prince Muqrin represents the biggest break from the kingdom's tradition of any of his predecessors in the role - both because of his lowly maternal birth and his foreign education. Seen as a relative progressive in the ruling family, with a grasp ...
Saudi Arabia's Interior Minister, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, a close friend of the United States and a scourge of Islamist militants, will be the country's first king from the third generation of its ruling dynasty. King Salman moved swiftly to appoint Mohammed Deputy Crown Prince on Friday, ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama expressed condolences and offered sympathy Thursday to the people of Saudi Arabia upon the death of King Abdullah, an important ally and a major force in the Muslim world. Obama, who visited with the ailing king in his desert compound last March, praised ...
The death on Friday of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah means Salman bin Abdulaziz has become the country's new ruler and the last to be born before the discovery of oil in the world's top crude exporter. As king, Salman, 78, will have to navigate regional turmoil caused by wars in Iraq and Syria, ...
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News in the Middle East moves fast. One moment it is all about unprecedented missile and drone attacks between Iran and Israel. The next the headlines return to the fighting and suffering in Gaza./ But policymakers, analysts and military leaders are still absorbing the extraordinary exchange of ...
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Crouching in a shallow dip in the field, Moran Stella Yanai knew this time was different./ "I heard 'Coo-coo!' and we raised our heads up - the terrorists were standing [there], smiling," she said. "Everyone started to run, I jumped and broke my leg, and they caught me."/ Warning: This article ...
Om Fahad was sentenced to six months in prison last year for her social media videos (file image)/ Iraqi social media influencer Om Fahad has been shot dead outside her home in Baghdad, according to local media reports./ The attack happened in the capital's eastern Zayne neighbourhood on Friday ...
A crude oil tanker has been damaged in a missile attack off the coast of Yemen - the latest strike to be carried out by the Houthis./ The incident happened roughly 15 nautical miles south-west of the Yemeni city of Mocha./ British maritime security agency UKMTO reported that the Panama-flagged ...
Daniel Rodimer leaves court after his initial appearance on murder charges at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Rodimer, a retired professional wrestler and former congressional candidate in Nevada and Texas, has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of ...
Calif., speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Report of Special Counsel John Durham, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Democratic congressman who also is running for U.S. Senate had his luggage swiped from his car while it was parked in a downtown ...
Thousands of eager boaters, jet skiers, kayakers and paddleboarders are expected at . Typically, it draws anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 participants on Lake Boca./ is a once-a-year boating party held on Lake Boca Raton in, you guessed it, . The city of Boca itself has no official involvement ...
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a suburban Detroit business that , killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authorities said Friday. U.S. Customs and New York Port Authority personnel arrested Noor Noel Kestou, ...