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RIYADH: A gunman opened fire on a Shiite house of worship in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday before being killed himself, state TV said, while residents reported three or four injured. “A man who opened fire at a hussainiya in Saihat was killed,” Al-Ekhbariya news channel reported, without saying how …

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – The Palestinian government denounced “Israeli escalation” on Sunday after the Jewish state temporarily banned Palestinians from entering Jerusalem s Old City following attacks that killed two people and wounded a child. “The Palestinian government denounces the Israeli escalation policy by Israeli occupation authorities against our …

WASHINGTON – Russia has deployed 28 combat aircraft in Syria, US officials said Monday, confirming the latest move in Moscow s military build-up in the war-torn country. “There are 28 fighter and bomber aircraft” at an airfield in the western Syrian province of Latakia, one of the officials said.AFP

ABU DHABI -UNS : Dubai announced a three day mourning period after the 33-year-old son of the Gulf emirate’s ruler passed away, the official state news agency WAM said on Saturday. Sheikh Rashid was the first son of Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid al-Maktoum and his senior wife, Sheikha Hind bint …

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces at Jerusalem s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound for a third straight day on Tuesday, an AFP correspondent reported. Young demonstrators gathered around the mosque threw stones at police who had entered the compound in large numbers and who responded with stun …

WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama and Saudi Arabia s King Salman held a long-delayed first White House summit Friday marked by warm public words, despite differing views on Middle Eastern crises. Obama made the rare move of greeting the 79-year-old monarch at the doors of the White House, as …

JERUSALEM: Israel on Monday offered to free a Palestinian detainee whose two-month hunger strike has left him in a coma — but only if he goes abroad, a demand his lawyer immediately dismissed. The justice ministry made its proposal ahead of a hearing at Israel’s top court over whether to …

RIYADH -UNS : A blast probably triggered by a suicide bomber killed 15 people on Thursday at a mosque inside a special forces headquarters in Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. An interior ministry spokesman said the terrorist attack took place during noon prayers in the city of Abha, …

DUBAI: Yemen’s former president, a powerful ally of Houthi forces in a four-month-old civil war, said he wanted his exiled successor tried for treason for enlisting Saudi-led attacks against the Iranian-allied militia. In remarks published on Monday by the Huffington Post website, Ali Abdullah Saleh said the air strikes by …

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – One year ago, a new war erupted between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the third in six years. In the course of the conflict — the longest, deadliest and most destructive — 2,251 Palestinians were killed, including 551 children. More than 10,000 …