News – Middle East

KYIV — Two consecutive Russian attacks on a medical center in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy killed at least nine people on Saturday morning, Ukrainian officials reported. The first strike claimed one life, and during the evacuation of patients and staff, Russia launched a second attack, according to Ukraine’s …

Saudi Gazette report LAS VEGAS— The Saudi Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources has hosted the “Saudi Night” event in Las Vegas, United States, aiming to highlight Saudi Arabia’s rich heritage, history, ambitious development projects, and programs of Saudi Vision 2030. It also aims to promote the promising mining investment …

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Hezbollah confirmed on Saturday that its leader and one of its founders, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday in Beirut. In a statement, Hezbollah said Nasrallah “has joined his fellow martyrs” and vowed to “continue the war against the enemy and in support …

Saudi Gazette report NEW YORK — Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Arab-Islamic Ministerial Committee on Gaza Prince Faisal bin Farhan chaired an emergency ministerial meeting of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The meeting was held on the sidelines of the high-level …

Saudi Gazette report NEW YORK — Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan inaugurated the high-level event titled “The Road to Riyadh” at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Thursday. In his speech, Prince Faisal stressed the Kingdom’s continued active efforts to combat desertification and face the …

BEIRUT — The Israeli military claimed on Saturday that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an airstrike in Beirut on Friday. It said that Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah and one of its founders, was eliminated together with Ali Karki, the Commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front, and additional …

In his speech, Prince Faisal emphasised that the war on Gaza triggered a humanitarian disaster, alongside the serious violations committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, and the threat to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and religious sanctities, further entrenching the policies of occupation and violent extremism. Saudi Arabia …

Israel conducted a wave of air strikes on the south of Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Friday that it said targeted Hezbollah’s headquarters, warning of more to come as it told civilians to leave the densely populated neighbourhood. Friday’s strikes sent huge clouds of smoke soaring above the area and were …

Israel conducted a series of heavy air strikes targeting the southern suburb of Beirut. Thick plumes of smoke covered the sky over the area, and the sounds of massive explosions were heard across the capital and its suburbs, according to the Lebanese National News Agency. Lebanon has been subjected to …

The Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) praised the launch of the “Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution” which was announced by Saudi Arabia on behalf of the Arab and Islamic countries and European partners during the ministerial meeting on the Palestinian cause held on Friday on the sidelines …