Tag: Al Arabiya

YEMEN – Why Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement should be designated as a terrorist group (Baraa Shiban, Al Arabiya)

On November 16, Foreign Policy magazine reported that the Trump administration is planning to designate the Iran-backed Houthi militia as a terrorist organization. Writers and...

USA/CHINA – US cancels China-funded exchange programs, saying they are ‘propaganda tools’ (Lauren Holtmeier, Al Arabiya)

The US Department of State on Friday terminated five exchange programs with China that the US says were “propaganda tools” disguised as “cultural exchanges.” https://englishbeta.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2020/12/05/US-cancels-China-funded-exchange-programs-saying-they-are-propaganda-tools- Read...

INDIA/CANADA – India summons Canada envoy after Trudeau backs protests (Al Arabiya)

India on Friday summoned Canada’s ambassador and warned of serious damage to diplomatic ties after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau commented on growing protests by...

USA/SOMALIA – Trump orders removal of ‘most’ personnel from Somalia: Pentagon (Al Arabiya)

President Donald Trump has ordered the removal of most US military and security personnel from Somalia, where they have been conducting operations against the...

BANGLADESH/ROHINGYA – Bangladesh ships Rohingya to remote island despite outcry (Al Arabiya)

More than 1,600 Rohingya refugees sailed on Friday from Bangladesh’s southern port of Chittagong for the remote island of Bhasan Char in the Bay...

ETHIOPIA – Thousands killed in Ethiopia’s conflict, Tigray side asserts (Al Arabiya)

Militia members from Ethiopia's Amhara region ride on their truck as they head to face the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), in Sanja, Amhara...

INDIA – Indian government considers rolling back agriculture reforms after mass protests (Al Arabiya)

Farmers sit in a tractor at a site of a protest against the newly passed farm bills at Singhu border near Delhi, India, November...

IRAN – Iran continues to fund militias in region, terror operations in Europe: Saudi FM (Al Arabiya)

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan during his panel discussion at the MED2020 Dialogue. Iran continues to fund terrorist militias in the region...

TURKEY/GREECE/CYPRUS – Greek FM: Turkey’s moves to ease tensions ‘unconvincing’ (Al Arabiya)

This handout photograph released by the Turkish Defence Ministry on August 12, 2020, shows Turkish seismic research vessel 'Oruc Reis' heading in the west...

MOZAMBIQUE – Jihadists kill at least 25 in northern Mozambique ambush (Al Arabiya)

This handout picture taken on November 6, 2020 in Pemba, northern Mozambique, by IOM (International Organization for Migration) shows internally displaced people being assisted...

IRAN – Iran plans to upgrade uranium enrichment plant (Al Arabiya)

A handout picture released by Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation on December 23, 2019 shows the nuclear water reactor of Arak, south of capital Tehran,...

BELARUS – Deteriorating situation in Belarus prompts criticism from UN rights chief (Al Arabiya)

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko chairs a meeting at a Strategic Management Centre of the Defense Ministry in Minsk, Belarus August 15, 2020. (Reuters) The United...

SAUDI ARABIA – Four reasons why Saudi Arabia’s soft power eclipses all others (Hasan Ismaik, Al Arabiya)

Aerial view of skyline of Mecca holy city in Saudi Arabia. (Shutterstock) What is Saudi Arabia’s source of power? Oil, some say. That’s wrong, I...

INDIA – Indian movie superstar Rajinikanth will launch his own political party (Al Arabiya)

Indian movie superstar Rajinikanth said Thursday he plans to launch his own political party in southern India in January, ending years of speculation by...

INDIA – India resumes talks to break deadlock with farmers protesting over agriculture reform (Al Arabiya)

Indian government ministers began talks with farmers’ leaders on Thursday to try and break a deadlock over laws passed earlier this year seeking to...

CHINA – China says US is fabricating forced labor reports out of Xinjiang region (Al Arabiya)

China said on Thursday that politicians in the United States are fabricating news of forced labor in the northwestern Xinjiang region, after Washington banned...