ANKARA (AA) – Syria’s newly appointed foreign minister said Monday that his first official visit will be to Saudi Arabia. Asaad al-Shaibani said he accepted an invitation from his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan to visit the kingdom. “I am honored to represent my country on my first official visit (to Saudi Arabia),” he ...
ANKARA (AA) – Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have joined a wave of condemnations of a call by Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to annex the occupied West Bank. In a statement, the Saud Foreign Ministry warned that Smotrich’s call “undermines peace efforts, including the two-state solution, encourages war, fuel extremism and threat...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Kuwait’s Red Crescent Society has sent its third relief plane carrying 40 tons of humanitarian aid to Lebanon. In a statement to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), the chairman of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society, Khaled Al-Maghames, said: “The situation in Lebanon faces significant challenges that require increased support an...
Kochi, India — AFP Grieving families kept a solemn vigil in the terminal of an Indian airport as the bodies of dozens of migrant workers killed in a Kuwait building fire returned home. Wednesday’s dawn blaze in Kuwait had quickly engulfed a housing block home to foreign labourers servicing the oil-rich gulf state’s economy. F...
Kuwait City, Kuwait – AFP A conference of international donors in Kuwait on Sunday pledged over $2 billion to aid the people of Gaza devastated by Israel’s attacks for more than seven months. The conference, organised by the International Islamic Charitable Organization (IICO) and the UN’s humanitarian coordination agency OCH...
KUWAIT CITY (AA) – Kuwait’s foreign minister has welcomed the results of the visit of his Iranian counterpart to Saudi Arabia, expressing his hope that it would be “the beginning of a bright page in the history of Gulf and Tehran relations.” On Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian arrived in Saudi Arabi...
