RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA: Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired drones and missiles at Saudi water and energy desalination facilities causing no causalities, but a temporary drop in output at a refinery. The drone strikes and ballistic and cruise missiles used by Houthis hit Yanbu’s gas plant, the Yasref refinery in the Yanbu Industrial City on the Red [&he...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen announced that it has thwarted a booby-trapped boat attack south of the Red Sea. A coalition statement said the boat was destroyed in al-Hudaydah in western Yemen. The statement said the attack targeted navigation south of the Red Sea, without giving further details. According to the [&helli...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh on Sunday announced the formation of a committee to hold dialogue on drafting an election law. Dbeibeh told a ministerial meeting that the committee will include independent figures representing the country’s different regions, the state news agency reported. He added that t...
KHARTOUM, Sudan –At least 35 people have been killed and hundreds injured in the violence between March 5 and 12 in Sudan’s Darfur region. Ibrahim Adam Osman, a member of the local Doctors Committee, said hundreds were admitted into Elgenena hospital since the violence started. “What we saw is a massacre with brutal attacks against [&hel...
GENEVA (AA) – Syrians will be confronting additional hardship as a result of the Ukraine crisis, Paulo Pinheiro, who chairs the International Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, has said. “Inflation is already skyrocketing. The government has begun rationing essential commodities, including ...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye killed three PKK fighters near the country’s border in northern Syria, the National Defense Ministry said on Thursday. Turkish forces targeted three PKK “terrorists” who attempted to attack the zone of Operation Euphrates Shield, an anti-terrorist military operation, the ministry said. Since 2016, ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Arab Council on Thursday reiterated full support for the right of the Syrian people to determine their future. The human rights body made the commitment on the 11th anniversary of the Syrian uprising, which began in March 2011 with popular protests demanding the departure of President Bashar al-Assad. The anniversary comes ...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Algerian army has captured seven militants in northeastern Algeria, according to the defense ministry on Thursday. A ministry statement said a cache of weapons and ammunition was also seized in the military operation in Wadi El-Dawwar forest in Skikda province. The statement said the militants were responsible for terro...
81 mass graves of Yazidis found in Iraq’s Sinjar since 2014: Official ERBIL, Iraq (AA) – A total of 81 mass graves of Yazidis have been found in Sinjar district in northern Iraq since 2014, said a Kurdish official on Thursday. Baravan Hamdi, Deputy Minister of the Martyrs in the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), said […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Thousands of Sudanese demonstrated in the capital Khartoum on Thursday to protest price hikes and poor living conditions. Protesters gathered near the presidential palace in Khartoum, raising banners condemning difficult economic conditions, according to an Anadolu Agency reporter on the ground. Last week, the Suda...
