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Houthi fighters ride a truck while patrolling a street in Sanaa January 21, 2015. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Saudi-led Coalition’s Spokesman: Ballistic Missile Was Launched from a Mosque towards Mecca

by Sa'ed Al-Abyadh | Oct 29, 2016 | Middle East

Jeddah – Houthi leadership is promoting for its news war by firing missiles at Mecca, home to some of Islam’s most sacred sites, and suggesting its victory after it had failed to impose control over Yemeni cities. Houthis relied in targeting Mecca on their...

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U.N. Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed

Yemen’s Peace Roadmap: Feasible

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Oct 29, 2016 | Opinion

Yemen’s government had brushed off the recently proposed draft for a peace solution by the U.N. special delegate Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, labeling it harshly as unsound and flawed. Despite its arguable conditions, the proposition is still worth a positive take. One...

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Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih talks to journalists before a meeting of OPEC oil ministers in Vienna, Austria, June 2, 2016/. Reuters

Saudi Arabia Eases Procedures to Boost Mining Sector

by Fahd Baqmi | Oct 29, 2016 | Business

Jeddah- The Ministry of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources in Saudi Arabia announced willingness to launch more investment licenses in the mining sector for the purpose of developing the domain and increasing its contribution to USD25 billion by 2020 amid rising...

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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a news conference on the airport tarmac in front of her campaign plane in White Plains, New York, United States September 8, 2016. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Clinton’s Allies Promise a Tougher Line on Iran

by Eli Lake | Oct 29, 2016 | Opinion

The next president has an opportunity in the Middle East to reassure wavering allies, to tell them: “We’re back and we’re going to lead again.” That sounds like something you might hear this month in an alternate reality, from the Rubio-Cheney campaign. After all,...

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Gyulchehra Bobokulova admits to killing child Anastasia Meshcheryakova, Asharq Al-Awsat

Ex-Soviet Republics Face Threats of Terror Attacks

by Taha Abed alWahed | Oct 29, 2016 | World

Moscow- Uzbekistan’s Gyulchehra Bobokulova, 38, confessed to killing Russian child Anastasia Meshcheryakova in the latest update on the charges brought against the nanny responsible for the May 2016 horror decapitation of the four-year-old. The nanny who decapitated...