Author: Steven Sahiounie

Units of the army and armed forces operating in Idleb and Aleppo countryside repelled two violent attacks launched by terrorist groups. “Units of the armed forces operating in the direction of Kafr Nabl in Idleb southern countryside, responded with appropriate weapons to a violent attack launched by terrorist groups in coincide with heavy rocket fire on the military points yesterday evening,” a military source told SANA. The source added that the army forces also intercepted a terrorist attack on one of the military points in Aleppo northern countryside. The armed forces managed to thwart the two attacks, killing and wounding…

A Nineteen-year-old Palestinian succumbed this evening to critical wounds he sustained in an Israeli drone shelling that targeted the Jenin refugee camp this morning. WAFA correspondent quoted the Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin reporting that the young man, who was identified as Walid Loui Walid Al-Asta, from the city of Nablus, died of serious wounds he sustained this morning in an Israeli drone attack against the said camp. This morning, the Ministry of Health announced the killing of two other young men; 27-year-old Hamza Ararawi from the al-Ain refugee camp in Nablus and 19-year-old Mohammed Nasser al-Sabti, from the Jenin…

RIYADH: Saudi Mobily has been ranked as the fastest-growing firm in the telecommunication sector in the Middle East in 2024 by marketing consultancy Brand Finance.

RIYADH: Asian and Australian businesses helped fuel a 550 percent annual rise in small and medium enterprises setting up in Dubai in 2023, according to a report.

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan received a telephone call from British Foreign Secretary David Cameron on Wednesday. The two ministers discussed developments in the Gaza Strip and bilateral relations, Saudi Press Agency reported. Other regional and international issues of common concern were also discussed. Source: Arab News

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia aspires to rank among the top 10 most successful countries in tourism this year, says the sector’s minister. Speaking during the Manafea Forum in Madinah, Ahmed Al-Khateeb outlined that the Kingdom is equipped with the capabilities and requirements to achieve this milestone, according to a statement by the ministry. He demonstrated this fact by noting that by the end of 2023, the sector contributed to approximately 5 percent of the gross domestic product, with the aim of raising the figure to 10 percent by 2030. Al-Khateeb further outlined that the Kingdom currently holds 940,000 jobs in the…

Russia’s investigation into the blasts on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines is “moving forward” despite the refusal of Western countries to cooperate, Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov has said. The September 2022 explosions of the key pipelines, which were built to deliver Russian gas to Germany, rendered them inoperable and caused what is believed to be largest single methane leak ever. It was “a terrorist act, not sabotage as the West is trying to present it,” Krasnov said in an interview with the newspaper Kommersant on Tuesday. Germany, Sweden, and Denmark all launched separate investigations into the incident, as the explosions happened in…

RIYADH: Energy sector investments worth $14 trillion are needed to match the expected global oil demand of 116 million barrels per day by 2045, according to an OPEC expert.

Egypt foreign minister on Wednesday urged a visiting US delegation to resume its financial support for UNRWA, the UN aid agency for Palestinians. Sameh Shoukry told the group of members of the US House Committee on Homeland Security, led by August Pfluger, that the decision to halt funding would have an impact on Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. A total of 16 countries suspended their financial support for UNRWA after Israel accused 12 of the agency’s 13,000 employees in the Gaza Strip of taking part in the Hamas-led assault on Israel on Oct. 7.…

BEIJING: Oil prices fell for a second day on Wednesday after a report that crude stockpiles in the US, the world’s biggest oil user, surged and on signs major producers are unlikely to change their output policy at a technical meeting next week, according to Reuters.