Al Arabiya English (Saudi Arabia)
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 08:22
An international human rights group called on the United Nations Security Council to block the flow of weapons to Syrian regime forces, claiming that it was launching attacks using “barrel bombs,” Agence France-Presse reported on Tuesday.
Monday, April 28, 2014 - 12:06
Hundreds of Egyptian activists demonstrated on Saturday against an anti-protest law, one month before a presidential election which former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is widely expected to win.
Friday, April 25, 2014 - 12:46
Yemen’s president and Shiite rebels have called the Houthi Shiite tribal group and have agreed to discuss the prospect of the group’s disarming, the Associated Press reported the country’s United Nations envoy as saying.
Friday, April 25, 2014 - 12:41
The emir of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was killed alongside 10 other members of the jihadist group in a blast in the northeastern province of al-Hasakah, a rebel news network reported on Thursday.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 11:35
Almost 3.5 million civilians in Syria have virtually no access to desperately needed humanitarian aid and people are dying needlessly every day as violence and extremism escalate and the risk of sectarian violence grows, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 11:32
The United States would have to reconsider its annual $500 million assistance to the Palestinians if Islamist group Hamas and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) form a government together, Reuters reported a senior U.S. administration official as saying on Thursday.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 10:46
A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a police checkpoint south of Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing at least 11 people, officials said, the latest episode in an uptick in violence in the run-up to next week's parliamentary elections.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 10:00
The directors of five United Nations agencies that provide humanitarian aid to Syria say their appeal for $6.5 billion in emergency funding for 2014 has been mostly ignored.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 06:57
Al-Qaeda’s chief bombmaker is believed to be dead following a U.S.-backed special forces ambush in Yemen over the weekend.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 06:39
The United Nations harshly criticized Syria’s decision to hold a presidential election on June 3, amid the ongoing bloody war in the country, saying that the election would ruin any potential political resolution to the problem.