Kingdom decides to terminate activities of schools in capital Riyadh, other provinces at end of 2020-2021 academic year The Saudi Arabian administration has decided to terminate the activities of 8 Turkish schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education operating in the capital Riyadh and other provinces at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year,

File – This April 14, 2020, file photo provided by the U.S. Army shows the USS Firebolt in Manama, Bahrain. The Firebolt fired warning shots when vessels of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard came too close to a recent patrol in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy said Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (Spc. Cody Rich/U.S. Army

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a graduation ceremony for the 95th batch of cadets from the King Faisal Air Academy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia December 23, 2018. Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in remarks aired on Tuesday that the United States

In an April 2, 2021, photo released by the U.S. Navy, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel cut in front of the U.S. Coast Guard ship USCGC Monomoy in the Persian Gulf. American and Iranian warships had a tense encounter in the Persian Gulf earlier this month, the first such incident in about a year amid

Turkey’s president on Monday denounced US President Joe Biden’s “unfounded” statement on the events of 1915, saying it is “contrary to the facts. Addressing a news conference following a three-hour Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said “US President Biden made a statement that is unfounded, unjust and contrary to the facts

A British-Iranian aid worker, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, poses for a photo after she was released from house arrest in Tehran, Iran March 7, 2021. She appeared in court on Sunday on a new charge. Zaghari family/WANA/Handout via REUTERS An Iranian court sentenced British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to another year in jail, just weeks after she

In this image made from video, first responders work the scene of a fire at a hospital in Baghdad on Saturday, April 24, 2021. The fire broke out in the Baghdad hospital that cares for coronavirus patients after oxygen cylinders reportedly exploded late Saturday, officials said. (AP Photo) By SAMYA KULLAB BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s

Smoke rises from a tanker off the coastal city of Baniyas, Syria, in this handout picture released on April 24, 2021. SANA/Handout via REUTERS Syria’s oil ministry said firefighters on Saturday put out a fire on an oil tanker off the Baniyas refinery after a suspected attack by a drone coming from the direction of

Demonstrators march in a rally protesting against Armenian genocide on 23rd Street, Saturday, April 24, 2021, in New York. The United States is formally recognizing that the systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century was “genocide” as President Joe Biden used that precise

A top US general said on Friday no plans for US to withdraw troops from Iraq The Iraqi army said on Saturday it is not in need of any foreign or US troops to fight beside them. According to a statement by the Iraqi army spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Rasool, the withdrawal of the foreign