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The UN Security Council on Thursday failed to reach consensus on either of two competing resolutions on a cessation of hostilities in Idlib, Syria, the last province in the war-torn nation that is still largely held by rebel forces. Belgium, Read more
Tunisia’s ex-president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali passed away in exile in Saudi Arabia on Thursday. According to his family’s lawyer, Mounir Ben Salha, funeral will take place on Friday in Saudi Arabia. However, a source from the Tunisian Prime Minister’s Read more
US President Donald Trump has said “if it were up to him, he would issue visa to President Hassan Rouhani and foreign minister to attend the UN General Assembly opening next week, after Iran said Washington has not yet provided Read more
In Tunisia, law professor and political outsider Kais Saied is leading the country’s presidential polls, the electoral commission said. Sunday election is the country’s second free vote for head of state since the 2011 Arab Spring. According to the provisional Read more
Morocco and the United Kingdom convened on Tuesday in Rabat their 2nd strategic dialogue meeting to enhance further bilateral political, economic, security and cultural relations. The session was opened by Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and the Moroccan delegation was led Read more
Saudi Arabia has ‘secretly’ sold its consulate building in Istanbul where journalist and critic of Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, Jamal Khashoggi was killed and chopped last year. The four-story building has been sold to an unknown buyer for third Read more
Attacks against oil facilities in Saudi Arabia over the weekend, claimed by rebel fighters in Yemen, are a sign that the war-torn country could be drawn into even greater conflict, the top United Nations official there told the Security Council Read more
Saudi authorities are mulling plans to delay the Initial Public Offering of the oil company Aramco after the Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacked two oil facilities in the kingdom, causing disruption oil production, AFP reports citing unnamed sources. The Initial Public Read more
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has said that their country would not hold talks with Washington on any level. Talks with the United States would mean that the maximum pressure policy had succeeded and make it possible for Washington to Read more
Kuwait ruler Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah has left hospital in the US after “successfully” completing medical tests, state-run news agency KUNA has reported on Friday. The 90-year old leader arrived in the US this week for medical check-ups. Read more