Coverage of the Middle East including diplomacy, security, energy, and regional affairs.
Middle EastIran's security chief Mohsen Rezaei met Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in Tehran on Tuesday, a day after officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan visited the capital to discuss easing the regional war.
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Middle EastChina will soon send a special envoy to the Middle East, Beijing announced on Tuesday, October 27, as fears grow that the region's conflicts could spill over into the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea region.
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Middle EastSyria has closed the Nassib border crossing with Jordan, suspending all passenger and commercial traffic, after Jordanian airstrikes in southern Syria killed at least seven people and sharply raised tensions between the two neighbours.
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Middle EastEgypt's parliament has authorised the military to provide defensive support to Saudi Arabia if Riyadh requests help against Houthi attacks, a move that could draw Cairo into the region's widening conflict.
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Middle EastYemen's Houthis said on Monday they attacked Saudi oil pipeline pumping stations and Riyadh airport, while the Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted a missile bound for the capital.
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Middle EastRiyadh’s King Khalid International Airport resumed flights on Sunday after a two-week closure caused by strikes by Yemen’s Houthi fighters, even as fresh attacks targeted the Saudi capital on the airport’s first day back in operation. The airport announced on Saturday that Terminal 1 would handle domestic flights and Terminal 2 would handle international flights
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Middle EastYemen's Iran-aligned Houthis on Sunday renewed their warning against using Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, hours after the airport announced it would restart limited flights on Sunday following a suspension earlier this month. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the airport remained a "military target" and that operations targeting it would continue, warning all airlines,
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Middle EastAdvocate Waseem Qureshi says the Gaza crisis is a test of the world's conscience, calling the silence of influential powers shameful and demanding serious measures for Gaza's people.
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Middle EastAt least six people were killed and 28 others were injured when gunmen opened fire inside a church in Jordan during a funeral on Friday, Jordan’s Public Security Directorate said. The Jordan church shooting took place in Karak governorate, about 90 miles south of the capital, Amman, and the attackers remained at large as security
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Middle EastThe United States has issued an ordered departure from Saudi Arabia for non-emergency government employees and their families, as Houthi attacks on Saudi airports and critical infrastructure intensify. The State Department announced the move on Wednesday, describing it as a response to a growing threat to American personnel in the kingdom. “The U.S. Department of
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Middle EastA ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Houthi movement struck a military camp in Aden on Wednesday, 21 October, the third reported attack on the southern port city within a week, as fighting between the group and Yemen's internationally recognised government escalates. The Houthi Aden missile strike targeted the Saudi-led coalition's military operations room at Badr
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Middle EastA tanker struck off Oman by an unknown projectile in the early hours of Wednesday started a fire on board that was later extinguished, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency has reported. All crew members are safe and the vessel is now at anchor, the agency said, as authorities investigate an attack whose
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