Author: Steven Sahiounie

Syria warned that Israel’s continued disregard for international laws and its failure to comply with Security Council and General Assembly resolutions threatens regional and international peace and security. “The events over the past few days’ highlight that Israeli war criminals have decided to continue their bloody attacks to plunge the region into a full-scale war, benefiting from unlimited US support at the expense of international peace and security and the lives and blood of innocent people,” said Syria’s permanent representative to the UN, Qusai Al-Dahhak, during a Security Council session on the situation in the Middle East. He blamed Israel…

Lebanon’s Ministry of Health announced, on Wednesday, that the casualties toll from the Israeli occupation’s attack on the southern suburb of Beirut has risen to 7, with 78 others injured. In turn, Iranian media reported that an Iranian advisor, Milad Bidi, was among the martyrs, after his body was identified during the debris removal process. Bidi was present in the building where senior Hezbollah commander Sayyed Fouad Shokor was assassinated. Hezbollah announces martyrdom of Cmdr Fouad Shokor (Sayyed Mohsen) Hezbollah on Wednesday mourned martyred senior commander Fouad Shokor, also known by his alias Hajj Mohsen, after he was targeted by an Israeli airstrike…

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations has warned the world body of attempts by Israel to expand the scope of its genocidal aggression against the Gaza Strip to the entire region. Amir-Saeed Iravani made the remarks on Wednesday in an address to an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council after Israel assassinated Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Hamas resistance group, in the Iranian capital Tehran. The terrorist act followed the regime’s targeted killing of Fuad Shukr, a senior commander of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, in Beirut. “The warmongering leaders of this rogue regime have shown complete…

Private payrolls rose by 122,000 jobs this month after advancing by an upwardly revised 155,000 in June

The number of Saudi workers in the private sector rose from 1.7mln in 2019 to over 2.3mln in 2024, while the unemployment rate decreased to 6.7% in the first quarter of 2024

The proliferation of supermarkets and specialty stores has provided consumers with a broader range of options and competitive pricing

Strong non-oil growth in Q2 has put Saudi Arabia on track to record an overall gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 1.2% in 2024, according to data by S&P Global Market Intelligence

ADDED aims to empower entrepreneurs to ensure they can benefit from the wide array of opportunities in Abu Dhabi’s economy

Saudi oil revenues came in at 212.99 billion riyals in the same quarter, up 18% compared with the same quarter a year earlier

Total revenue for the second quarter was down 12.4% compared to the prior year period