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Saudi-led coalition no longer on U.N. blacklist for killing children in Yemen COMMUNITY

Saudi-led coalition no longer on U.N. blacklist for killing children in Yemen

June 15th, 20200 NEW YORK — On Monday U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres removed a Saudi Arabia-led military coalition from a U.N. blacklist. The coalition was condemned and was on the list for several years for killing and injuring children in Yemen. Reuters reports that Guterres wrote in his annual report to the U.N. Security Council on...
Ilhan Omar's signature is more than disappointing, it’s shameful  COMMUNITY

Ilhan Omar’s signature is more than disappointing, it’s shameful 

May 8th, 20201 This week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, urging him to increase "diplomatic action by the United States to renew the expiring United Nations arms embargo against Iran and United Nations travel restrictions on those Iranian individuals involved...
Saudi Arabia suspends prayers in the arenas outside Mecca, Medina holy mosques Health

Saudi Arabia suspends prayers in the arenas outside Mecca, Medina holy mosques

March 19th, 20200 RIYADH — On Thursday, Saudi Arabia suspended Muslims from conducting their five daily prayers and the weekly Friday prayer in the overflow area just outside the walls of the two holy mosques in Mecca and Medina to limit the spread of the coronavirus. On Tuesday, the Kingdom said it will no longer allow Muslims to conduct prayers...
Saudi’s suspend pilgrimages, Coronavirus widespread in Iran World

Saudi’s suspend pilgrimages, Coronavirus widespread in Iran

March 4th, 20200 RIYADH -  Saudi Arabia has extended its suspension of travel to the holy sites of Mecca and Medina from foreigners to Saudi citizens and residents, after it reported its first case of the novel coronavirus in an individual who failed to disclose he had travelled to Iran before entering the country. “Based on the recommendations of...
After Florida killings, Saudis withdraw 21 cadets from the United States U.S.A

After Florida killings, Saudis withdraw 21 cadets from the United States

January 13th, 20200 WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Saudi Arabia will withdraw 21 cadets receiving military training in the United States following a U.S. investigation into a Saudi officer’s fatal shooting of three Americans at a Florida naval base that Attorney General William Barr branded an act of terrorism on Monday. The Dec. 6 attack further complicated...
Asylum applications from Saudis up 106 percent this year alone, European Union says World

Asylum applications from Saudis up 106 percent this year alone, European Union says

August 26th, 20190 VALETTA, MALTA — The number of Saudi Arabian nationals applying for asylum in the European Union has increased by 106 percent in the first six months of 2019 alone, according to official figures released last week by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO). The latest data shows that 101 Saudis applied for asylum in the EU during...
Saudi Arabia fails to gather a firm Arab stand against Iran World

Saudi Arabia fails to gather a firm Arab stand against Iran

May 31st, 20190 MECCA — Saudi Arabia’s king told an emergency Arab summit on Thursday that decisive action was needed to stop Iranian “escalations” in the region following attacks on Gulf oil assets, as American officials said a U.S. military deployment had deterred Tehran. King Salman had opened an earlier meeting of Arab Gulf leaders with a...
Yemen's Houthis say they launched drone attack on Saudi's Najran airport World

Yemen’s Houthis say they launched drone attack on Saudi’s Najran airport

May 24th, 20190 DUBAI — On Thursday, Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement  launched a drone attack on a Patriot missile battery in the airport of the Saudi city of Najran near the Yemeni border, the group’s Al-Masirah TV said on Thursday. The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis said the drone was intercepted and destroyed by the...
Local community commemorate the 37 lives brutally executed in Saudi Arabia COMMUNITY

Local community commemorate the 37 lives brutally executed in Saudi Arabia

May 10th, 20190 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On Saturday, May 4, public officials, religious and community leaders came together in the Islamic Institute of America (IIA) to commemorate the innocent people who were brutally beheaded by the Saudi regime. Saudi Arabia beheaded 37 of its citizens on April 23, in the largest mass execution the country has...
Senate votes to pull U.S. aid for Saudi war on Yemen U.S.A

Senate votes to pull U.S. aid for Saudi war on Yemen

March 15th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate voted 54-46 on Wednesday to end America’s involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, potentially setting the stage for President Trump to use veto powers for the first time. The resolution to end American aid in a war that has been largely invisible to most U.S. taxpayers places the president in a...
U.S. lawmakers renew push for penalties against Saudi Arabia World

U.S. lawmakers renew push for penalties against Saudi Arabia

February 8th, 20190 WASHINGTON, DC — Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers renewed their push on Thursday to penalize Saudi Arabia for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and address the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, introducing legislation to bar some arms sales and impose sanctions on those responsible for his death. Democrats Bob...
Yemen's warring parties agree to ceasefire in Hodeidah and U.N. role World

Yemen’s warring parties agree to ceasefire in Hodeidah and U.N. role

December 14th, 20180 RIMBO, Sweden — Yemen’s warring parties agreed on Thursday to cease fighting for the Houthi-held port city of Hodeidah and withdraw their troops, the first significant breakthrough for U.N.-led peace efforts in five years of conflict. At the close of a week of talks in Sweden, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said a...
U.S. Senate deals Trump double rebuke on Saudi Arabia U.S.A

U.S. Senate deals Trump double rebuke on Saudi Arabia

December 14th, 20180 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate delivered a rare double rebuke to President Trump on Saudi Arabia on Thursday, voting to end U.S. military support for the war in Yemen and blaming the Saudi crown prince for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The votes were largely symbolic because to become law the resolutions would have to pass...
Hopeful start to Yemen talks in Stockholm: Free thousands of prisoners World

Hopeful start to Yemen talks in Stockholm: Free thousands of prisoners

December 9th, 20180 STOCKHOLM — Yemen’s warring sides agreed to free thousands of prisoners on Thursday, in what a U.N. mediator called a hopeful start to the first peace talks in years to end a war that has pushed millions of people on the verge of starvation. U.N. mediator Martin Griffiths told a news conference in a renovated castle outside...
Mattis: Yemen peace talks likely in early December World

Mattis: Yemen peace talks likely in early December

November 24th, 20180 WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Wednesday that peace talks between Yemen’s warring parties are likely to take place in early December in Sweden. Western countries are pressing for a ceasefire and renewed peace efforts to end the more than three-year long conflict, which is seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia...
Trump praises Saudi Arabia amid mounting pressure to sanction ally World

Trump praises Saudi Arabia amid mounting pressure to sanction ally

November 23rd, 20180 WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, President Trump praised Saudi Arabia for helping to lower oil prices as pressure intensified for the U.S. to impose tougher sanctions on its Arab ally over dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. In a tweet, Trump thanked Riyadh for the recent drop in oil prices and called for prices to go...
Fewer Arab students head for U.S. to study, report shows Local

Fewer Arab students head for U.S. to study, report shows

November 19th, 20180 WASHINGTON — Fewer Arab students are choosing to study at universities in the U.S. than in the previous year, according to a report published on Tuesday, while the number of American students going to the Middle East has surged modestly. The Institute of International Education’s 2018 Open Doors report shows that in the last...
Yemeni father mourns baby girl who died of starvation World

Yemeni father mourns baby girl who died of starvation

November 16th, 20180 SANAA, Yemen — Saleh al-Faqeh held the wasted arm of his baby daughter as she took her last breath on Thursday at the malnutrition ward of the main hospital in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. Four-month-old Hajar al-Faqeh reached the al-Sabeen hospital last week from Saada province, one of thousands of Yemeni children suffering from...
U.S. imposes sanctions on Saudi officials for Khashoggi killing U.S.A

U.S. imposes sanctions on Saudi officials for Khashoggi killing

November 16th, 20180 WASHINGTON — The United States imposed economic sanctions on 17 Saudi officials on Thursday for their role in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor sought the death penalty for five suspects in the murder. The U.S. Treasury Department sanctions were the first concrete response by the...
Will Khashoggi disappearance bring down Saudi’s crown prince? Opinions

Will Khashoggi disappearance bring down Saudi’s crown prince?

October 19th, 20180 Saudi Arabia and especially its young crown prince – who has been variously portrayed as naïve, venal and blood-thirsty – appear to have vastly misjudged the reaction to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist who opposed the new heir’s unchecked efforts to reshape the kingdom and the entire Middle East region with...
How Khashoggi’s disappearance could affect Middle East politics Opinions

How Khashoggi’s disappearance could affect Middle East politics

October 16th, 20180 The disappearance and possible murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has cast a long shadow over Saudi Arabia’s global image. If the Saudi government did in fact kill or kidnap him, the crime would have significant implications for Middle East politics. Turkish authorities believe he has been killed and his body, possibly...
Trump won't halt Saudi arms sales over journalist disappearance World

Trump won’t halt Saudi arms sales over journalist disappearance

October 16th, 20180 President Trump said on Thursday that he saw no reason to cut off arms sales to Saudi Arabia because of the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, possibly setting up a clash with the U.S. Congress. Trump also said the U.S. may be closer to finding out what happened to Khashoggi, a prominent critic of Saudi policies who...
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