Saudi sources said on Sunday that Prince Mansur bin Muqrin, deputy governor of Asir, died in a helicopter crash, carrying a number of officials in the Asir region.
Senior Saudi officials including prince killed in helicopter crash: Media reports
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The third part of Yellow Box documentay about the Syrian Chemcial weapons has fouced on the deadly checmical attack on Eastsern Ghouta on August 21, 2013 that left more than 1466 people killed and how the Lebanese Hezbollah militia took part in the massacre. ...
Saudi Arabia on Sunday pledged a "firm application of justice" after an anti-corruption sweep that reportedly saw the arrests of dozens of senior figures including princes, ministers and a top business tycoon. "The suspects are being granted the same rights and treatment as any other...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- C’est bientôt les journées cinématographiques de Carthage(JCC), première manifestation de son genre en Afrique et vitrine distinguée et particulière du cinéma arabe. Un évènement annuel à Tunis qui se tiendra cette année du 4 au 11 novembre. En compétition...
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi raised on Sunday the Iraqi flag at a border crossing with Syria days after Iraqi forces retook it from the ISIS group, state TV announced. Al-Iraqiya TV said al-Abadi visited the newly-liberated town of Qaim and the nearby Husaybah border crossing in...
Egypt summoned the British, German, Dutch, Italian and Canadian ambassadors Sunday after the European countries criticized the detention of an Egyptian human rights lawyer, a statement from the Egyptian foreign ministry said. The criticism issued in a statement late on Friday was over...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tens of people have staged a strike in the main markets of Manbij town east of Aleppo city on Sunday, protesting against the powerful PYD Kurdish militia over mandatory conscription, local sources reported. A resident told Zaman al-Wasl that the strike...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Western intelligence agencies warned former Lebanese prime minister Saad al-Hariri of an assassination plot against him, the Saudi-owned pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported on Sunday. It cited unnamed sources close to Hariri. However, al-Mayadin, a...
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers struck in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding more than 20, police and medical sources said. The interior ministry said the attacks targeted a Shi‘ite Muslim mosque on Atlas Street in central...
A Russian-sponsored Syrian peace congress scheduled for Nov. 18 has been postponed and the main Syrian Kurdish group will not be invited if it is held later after objections by Turkey, President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman said on Sunday. Asked for comment, Russia's Foreign Ministry...
The White House has released more details about a phone call between President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's King Salman, but the statement did not make any reference to the overnight arrests of high-level princes and officials in the kingdom. The White House statement said Sunday...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 25 regime army troops from the coastal city of Tartus have been killed since mid of October, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Residents of Tartus, the regime's powerful militant supplier, say funerals are everywhere and everyday. Tartus suffered decades of...
Saudi King Salman appointed two new ministers on Saturday to key security and economic posts, removing one of the royal family’s most prominent members as head of the National Guard and boosting the kingdom’s young crown prince. The king also announced the creation of a new...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 75 fleeing people have been killed in car bomb attack near Deir Ezzor city, activists and monitor group said on Saturday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least one Islamic State car bomb killed dozens of people at a...
Syrian and allied forces converged Saturday on holdout Islamic State group fighters in the Syrian border town of Albu Kamal, the jihadists' very last urban bastion following a string of losses. On Friday, Russian-backed Syrian regime forces took full control of Deir Ezzor, which...
Saudi Arabia Saturday intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile northeast of the capital Riyadh, state media reported. "The missile was of limited size [and] no injuries or damage" were reported, state news channel Al-Ekhbariya said. A source in Riyadh told The Daily Star...
(Zaman al Wasl)- Syrian White Helmets reportedly found mass graves of several dozens of Syrian army troops in northern Idlib province on Saturday. The leading Civil Defense rescuing group has found mass grave for 63 silan army soldiers in al-Hamediya Camp near the town of Maarret...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump may discuss a Syria settlement at an Asian economic summit in Vietnam next week, the RIA news agency reported on Saturday. Relations between Moscow and Washington have soured further since Putin and Trump first met...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source revealed to Zaman al-Wasl that two sites were hit in Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday night in Damascus and central Homs province. The first site was in the town of Bloudan, west of Damascus besides the Industerial district of...
