Syrian-French citizen Salah Habib is charged with supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the country’s chemical weapons program. Le Monde reported Habib is accused of “conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity, and complicity in war crimes” in a French court Sunday. Habib is married to a French woman and owns a house in Fr...
Israel’s national intelligence agency Mossad is suspected of detonating bombs and issuing threats to German and Swiss companies in the 1980s for aiding Pakistan in its nascent nuclear weapons program. Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung first reported on the findings Saturday. The newspaper wrote that Israel felt the prospect of an Islamic state...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a non-binding resolution Thursday that condemns the denial of the Holocaust and calls for greater international efforts to combat anti-Semitism worldwide. The resolution that was introduced by Israel and Germany and approved by consensus, condemns the denial of the mass mur...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday spoke with his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid over phone, according to information obtained from the Turkish Foreign Ministry. No detail was given on the content of the call. On Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he was engaging in talks with his ...
The Israeli army on Thursday detained seven Palestinians, including a disabled man. According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society the arrests took place in the West Bank city of Jenin and Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that the Israeli army detained Abdul-Kader Khuzaymah, who is in his 60s and disabled. The Israeli army often arbi...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Saudi-led Arab Coalition in Yemen on Thursday announced a large-scale military operation against Houthi rebels, state-run media said. According to the official Saudi Press Agency, the coalition has launched a “widespread operation to paralyze the capabilities of the Houthis in a number of (Yemeni) provinces.”...
A Saudi engineer won the “Innovators Under 35” award for developing a microchip that can detect different types of cancer in the body. Dana Al-Sulaiman is an assistant professor of material science and bioengineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. According to MIT Technology Review Arabia’s website, she ...
Israeli police were in a standoff Monday with a Palestinian man who carried a gas canister onto the roof of his home in Jerusalem. The man’s family has been facing the threat of eviction since 2017 in the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah area of Israel-annexed east Jerusalem. Israeli media reported Mohammed Salhiya had threatened to set […]...
A possible drone attack at Abu Dhabi International Airport that caused an explosion and a fire on Monday killed three people and wounded six. Abu Dhabi police identified the dead as two Indian nationals and one Pakistani. They also said an investigation was underway. Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the attack. The Ira...
A British Jewish leader has resigned following comments he made about Muslims. Gary Mond, vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and treasurer of the U.K. branch of the Jewish National Fund, wrote on Facebook that “all civilization” is “at war with Islam.” A senior member of British Jewry’s main communal organization, [&helli...
