The United Nations said it began delivering aid to hundreds of thousands of Syrians through the Jaber-Nassib border crossing with Jordan, which reopened two months ago. In total, “369 trucks carrying 11,200 metric tons of … assistance for over 650,000 people” will be involved in the four-week operation, the UN’s humanitarian agency OCHA said, AFP […]

Another round of talks on the Saudi-led war on Yemen will likely take place in the coming months, sources said, as warring parties met for UN-sponsored talks in Sweden. The Sweden initiative marks the first meeting between the two sides since the 2016 breakdown of talks to end the Saudi war, which has claimed more […]

A Persian Gulf Arab summit called for regional unity as Bahrain and Qatar traded barbs over the Qatari emir’s decision not to attend the gathering in Saudi Arabia on Sunday in a sign that a row between Doha and its neighbors is still festering. Qatar sent its state minister for foreign affairs to the annual […]

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister ruled out the extradition of suspects in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, after Istanbul’s chief prosecutor filed warrants for the arrest of two former senior Saudi officials. Turkish officials said last week that the prosecutor’s office had concluded there was “strong suspicion” that Saud al-Qahtani, a top aide to Crown […]

Politicians from around the globe will gather Monday in Morocco for a major conference to endorse a United Nations migration pact, despite a string of withdrawals driven by anti-immigrant populism. The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was finalized at the UN in July after 18 months of talks and is due to […]

Financial and banking transactions between Iran and China would resume as of Monday, vice chairman of Iran-China Joint Chamber of Commerce announced. According to Mohammad Reza Hariri, the hurdles in banking transactions between the two countries were cleared last week and financial transactions would resume on Monday through China’s Bank of Kunlun, the key Chinese conduit […]

Nikki Haley, the outgoing US ambassador to the UN, has said the United States should not give Saudi Arabia a pass for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Haley, who will leave her position at the end of the year, made her statements in an interview with US publication The Atlantic. “You have Saudi […]

China warned Canada Saturday that there would be severe consequences if it did not immediately release Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s chief financial officer, calling the case “extremely nasty.” Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s global chief financial officer, was arrested in Canada on Dec. 1 and faces extradition to the United States, which alleges that she covered up […]

Syria’s army and its allies repelled a major attack by Takfiri militants in the province of Hama, inflicting major losses on them. Syrian forces repelled an infiltration attempt by terrorist groups near the village of Bredij 7, northeast of the al-Sakilibiya town. They attempted to infiltrate into Tel Sakher in the northern countryside of Hama, SANA […]

All Palestinian territories occupied by the Zionist regime of Israel are within the target range of Hezbollah’s missiles, the movement’s second-in-command Sheikh Naim Qassem said. In an interview with al-Vefagh newspaper, Sheikh Qassem said in case of outbreak of a war, all areas occupied by the Zionist regime, including its capital Tel Aviv, will be […]