King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia issued a royal decree on Thursday, August 29, 2024, appointing Fahd bin Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Salman as the new Commander of the Joint Forces, replacing Mutlaq bin Salem Al-Azima'. The royal decree, published by the official Saudi Press Age...
Former Egyptian Foreign Minister and former Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Nabil Al-Arabi, passed away on Monday, August 26, at the age of 89. Al-Arabi was born on March 15, 1935, in Cairo. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1955 and went on to earn a Master's degree i...
Yemen's President of the Presidential Leadership Council, Rashid al-Alimi, inaugurated a package of vital development projects in Taiz Governorate (southwest Yemen) on Tuesday, August 27th, 2024. The projects, funded by the Saudi Program for the Reconstruction and Development of Yemen, were la...
Recent torrential rains, floods, and thunderstorms have battered parts of the Arabian Peninsula, including Yemen and Saudi Arabia, during some of the hottest months on record. These regions have not witnessed such heavy rainfall in August before. In Yemen, 67 people died and 12 others were inju...
The Joint Incidents Assessment Team (JIAT) of the Arab Coalition on Wednesday, August 14, 2024, refuted three allegations regarding the targeting of locations within Yemeni territory in 2015 and 2016. These allegations were raised by international organizations and human rights groups. JIAT spo...
Dozens of residents from Al-Jawf Governorate in Yemen staged a protest on Thursday, August 15, 2024, demanding the release of Major General Ali Mohsen Al-Hadi, the Assistant Chief of Operations for the Yemeni Army, who has been detained in Saudi Arabia for months. The protesters, who ...
The President of the Arab Parliament, Adel Al-Asoumi, reaffirmed on Wednesday, August 14th, 2024, the Parliament's support for all Arab and international efforts aimed at achieving a comprehensive political solution to the Yemeni crisis. Al-Asoumi made the statement during a meeting with th...
The United States announced on Monday, August 12, 2024, that it will resume selling offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, reversing a years-long suspension citing human rights concerns in Yemen. State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters that since the arms sales freeze, and with th...
The Saudi Cabinet has approved a memorandum of cooperation with Yemen in the fight against organized crime, terrorism, and money laundering, according to a statement released on Tuesday, August 13th, 2024. The agreement, signed between the Public Prosecution Offices of both countries, was appro...
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Monday, August 12, 2024, that it is reinforcing its forces in its operational areas, including the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea, with an additional aircraft carrier and a nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine. In a statement posted on X, CENTCOM s...
The Biden administration has decided to lift the ban on the sale of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, according to a report by Reuters on August 9, 2024. This decision marks a reversal of a three-year-old policy aimed at pressuring the Kingdom to end its involvement in the Yemeni civil war. Th...
In a significant development, Russia reportedly backed down from a plan to supply weapons to the Houthi rebels in Yemen last month, following behind-the-scenes efforts by the United States and Saudi Arabia, according to a CNN report. Sources familiar with the matter told CNN that Russia h...
The Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) has signed preliminary agreements worth up to $50 billion with six Chinese financial institutions, according to Bloomberg. This move is seen as the latest example of the deepening relationship between the two countries. The American news agency reported th...
Hundreds of mourners gathered at the Imam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab Mosque in Doha, Qatar, to participate in the funeral prayer for Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas' political bureau, who was laid to rest in Qatar on Friday. Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, Iran, in a strike attributed to ...
Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan held a phone conversation with his Iranian counterpart, Ali Bagheri Kani, on Thursday, August 1, 2024, to discuss bilateral relations and regional developments. The Saudi Foreign Ministry issued a statement confirming the call, stating that the two minis...
A high-level US delegation, led by President Biden's Senior Advisor for Middle Eastern Affairs, Brett McGurk, arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, to discuss the situation in Yemen and bolster stability in the Red Sea, according to the US news website Axios. The delegation inc...
A cultural foundation and business leaders in Aden, Yemen's temporary capital, honored young Waled Al-Saidi Al-Kaldi on Monday for his second-place finish in the "Arab Geniuses" mental arithmetic competition held in Tunisia last June. The ceremony, organized by the "Saraya Al...
A Yemeni resident in Saudi Arabia died in a traffic accident in Madinah, local sources reported on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. The sources told "Barran Press" that the deceased, Abdullah Ahmed Al-Atbush Al-Faqir, was involved in a traffic accident in Madinah, located in northwestern...
Tariq Saleh, the member of the Presidential Leadership Council and commander of the National Resistance Forces, met with the commander of the joint forces of the Arab Coalition, Saudi Deputy Chief of Staff General Mutlaq al-Azima', on Monday to discuss coordination efforts in supporting ...
Two Arab fencers have secured the first medal for the Arab world at the Paris 2024 Olympics, with Egyptian Ziad El-Sisi and Tunisian Farès Ferjani both advancing to the semi-finals of the men's foil competition. El-Sisi, the world's number-one ranked fencer, defeated German...