Saudi-led bombing of Yemen's airports is obstructing aid deliveries aimed at easing a "catastrophic" humanitarian situation in the impoverished country, international relief agencies have warned./ The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said they ...
Hassan Rouhani (centre left) inspects a display of Iran's new Nasr-e Basir missiles in Tehran on August 24, 2014 (AFP Photo/)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran's president denounced western countries for taking pride in arms sales Tuesday, after France signed a warplanes deal with Qatar, saying weapons ...
Wadia border outpost between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, east of the southern Saudi province of Najran (AFP Photo/Khaled Fazaa)/ Riyadh (AFP) - Mortar shells and Katyusha rockets fired by Iran-backed rebels in Yemen struck the Saudi border town of Najran on Tuesday, Saudi state television and a ...
Gulf monarchs gather on Tuesday for an extraordinary summit amid growing international concern over the Saudi-led air war against Shiite rebels in Yemen and a deepening regional threat from jihadists./ French President Francois Hollande will become the first Western leader to sit in on the ...
France and Saudi Arabia believe that any future deal between Iran and six major powers must ensure not to destabilise the region further and threaten Iran's neighbours, the two countries said ahead of a summit in Riyadh on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia invited French President Francois Hollande, whose ...
Hollande first Western leader to address Gulf summit * France aims to reassure leaders over Iran nuclear deal * Saudi FM says historical ally, has common vision (Adds Hollande speech, Saudi FM, context) RIYADH, May 5 (Reuters) - France and Saudi Arabia believe that any future nuclear accord ...
Supporters of Yemen's Southern Separatist Movement keep position around armed vehicles flying the movement's flag near the International airport in the port city of Aden, as battles against Shiite Huthi rebels continue, on May 3, 2015 (AFP Photo/Saleh Al-Obeidi)/ Dakar (AFP) - Senegal on Monday ...
Yemen's president has called a meeting of political forces on May 17 to discuss his country's war that will include former associates of a powerful ally of the Houthis, a move that could bolster the ranks of opponents of the Iranian-allied force./ Mukhtar al-Rahbi, press secretary at President ...
Negotiators of Iran and six world powers hold meeting on Iranian nuclear deal at the historic basement of Palais Coburg hotel in Vienna April 24, 2015./ (Reuters) - France and Saudi Arabia said on Monday any future deal between Iran and major powers had to ensure that it did not destabilize the ...
Iran nuclear deal must avoid destabilising region/ (Reuters) - France and Saudi Arabia believe that any future deal between Iran and six major powers must ensure not to destabilise the region further and threaten Iran's neighbours, the two countries said ahead of a summit in Riyadh on Tuesday. ...
France and Saudi Arabia believe that any future nuclear accord between Iran and six major powers must be robust, verifiable and no threat to Tehran's neighbors, the two countries said ahead of a summit in Riyadh on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia invited French President Francois Hollande, whose country ...
France and Saudi Arabia believe that any future nuclear accord between Iran and six major powers must be robust, verifiable and no threat to Tehran's neighbors, the two countries said ahead of a summit in Riyadh on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia invited French President Francois Hollande, whose country ...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal is sending 2,100 troops to help back the military intervention led by Saudi Arabia that is underway in Yemen, becoming the first sub-Saharan African country to contribute soldiers to the effort, the country's foreign minister said Monday. The decision to deploy ...
Saudi-led air strikes against rebels in Yemen have destroyed much of their military capabilities, but almost six weeks into the campaign the situation on the ground remains unchanged, analysts said./ Last month, the kingdom declared the strikes against the Iran-backed rebels that began on March ...
A fighter jet of the UAE armed forces taking off from an air force base before raids against Shiite Huthi rebels in Yemen as part of the Saudi-led coalition (AFP Photo/)/ Riyadh (AFP) - Saudi Arabia is considering temporary halts in coalition air strikes against rebels in Yemen to allow for aid ...
French President Francois Hollande sought to boost ties in the Gulf Monday as he oversaw the signing of a warplanes deal with Qatar and headed to Saudi Arabia for a summit./ Hollande was to be the first Western head of state to attend a summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) during the ...
France and Saudi Arabia warned on May 4 that any future deal between Iran and six major powers must not destabilize the region further and threaten Iran's neighbors. French President Francois Hollande met with Saudi Arabia's King Salman ahead of a regional summit on May 5 with Gulf Arab leaders ...
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — French President Francois Hollande, seeking to strengthen political and business ties with the energy-rich Gulf states, arrived in Qatar on Monday at the start of a two-nation trip that will include a visit to neighboring Saudi Arabia./ The trip comes as France and other world ...
France and Saudi Arabia believe that any future deal between Iran and six major powers must ensure not to destabilise the region further and threaten Iran's neighbours, the two countries said ahead of a summit in Riyadh on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia invited French President Francois Hollande, whose ...
Solutions will be hard to find Tuesday when Gulf monarchs hold their annual summit in a region threatened by jihadists and a war in Yemen that has raised tensions with Iran./ "You go down that list, it's very complex," Anthony Cordesman, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in ...
Senegal will send 2,100 troops to Saudi Arabia as part of an international coalition combating Houthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen, the West African nation's foreign minister said on Monday./ Senegalese President Macky Sall said, after returning from a visit to Saudi Arabia last month, he was ...
Special forces troops fighting the Houthi militia in Aden were Yemenis deployed there two weeks ago after retraining in Gulf Arab countries, not foreign troops, Yemen's Foreign Minister Reyad Yassin Abdulla said on Monday. Their smart uniforms and equipment led to reports on Sunday that a ...
France and Qatar signed a 6.3 billion euro ($7.02 billion) deal on Monday for the sale of 24 Rafale fighter jets, an accord President Francois Hollande hailed as a mark of Gulf Arab regard for French regional strategy including its firm line on Iran. The contract - the third this year for ...
France’s tough line in talks with Iran and a similar analysis to Gulf Arab states on regional crises has sealed strategic new links in the Middle East that will be cemented when President Francois Hollande attends a regional leaders’ summit next week. Those ties, which Paris has sought to ...
The Egyptian government said it had extended by three months the deployment of "some elements of the armed forces" abroad, enabling it to continue participating in a Saudi-led coalition that has been launching air strikes in Yemen. Egypt, which has one of the Middle East's largest military ...
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham/ Iran has warned of the deterioration of humanitarian situation in Yemen, urging international organizations to take effective measures to send immediate relief aid to people in the war-wracked country. “Yemen’s blockade is an inhumane scenario ...
The strike took place on the Nuseirat refugee camp, seen here on Monday/ An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with hundreds of displaced people in central Gaza has killed more than 20 people, local residents say. The Israeli military said it carried out a strike on a UN school that housed ...
Dean Sweetland is one of a dozen residents tackling recent bushfires around Kibbutz Malkiya/ Three rusty water-trucks stand at the edge of Kibbutz Malkiya, on Israel’s border with Lebanon; little bigger than a family car, they look like something out of an old cartoon. A collection of industrial ...
electric aircraft from company Archer Aviation, is seen at the Salinas Municipal Airport in Salinas/ (Reuters) - Archer Aviation said on Wednesday the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted the company a certificate to begin commercial operations, making it the second electric ...
A symbol of safety and security for parents and students is being charged with heinous acts that completely contradict that notion. Kiara Lee, a 26-year-old crossing guard, is accused of distributing electronic cigarettes and substances containing marijuana to students at Penn Wood Middle School ...
Palestinian families have begun fleeing Bureij camp and surrounding areas/ The Israeli military says it has begun a ground operation against Hamas in the Bureij refugee camp and east of the town of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Troops backed by air strikes were targeting “terrorists ...
Israeli forces pulled out of Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital in April/ After Israeli forces pulled out of Gaza City’s vast al-Shifa hospital complex on 1 April, following their second raid there, stunned Palestinians who pored over the burnt-out ruins said it reeked of death. During the past eight ...
Thursday’s launch window will be open for two hours, and the FOX Forecast Center says weather conditions look acceptable for the uncrewed test flight. , with temperatures bottoming out in the 80s during the nights and reaching well over 100 degrees during the day. recently reported tying its ...
(FOX40.COM) — A fire at a storage facility in Northern California resulted in millions of dollars in damages and the loss of 2 million pounds of nuts, according to fire officials. The Ripon Consolidated Fire District said the fire started on Sunday night at around 9:50 p.m. in the area of ...
Hezbollah rockets have sparked days of bushfires in northern Israel, with swathes of forest reserve destroyed and 11 people hospitalised for smoke inhalation. Patches of scorched earth start to appear half an hour out from the Lebanon border, plumes of grey smoke mapping the route to either side ...
A fisherman in Missouri caught what he thought was an odd fish that refused to die, even when left on the pavement for several hours. The angler was fishing below Wappapello Lake Spillway in Wayne County on May 25 when he reeled in what turned out to be a northern snakehead, the fourth ever ...