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  • Qatar reveals plans to open over 100 new properties in FIFA 2022 World Cup countdown

    Qatar is adding 105 new hotels and hotel apartments to its already extensive portfolio of properties, as the country gears up to host the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™. The new properties will broaden Qatar's appeal to a range of travellers and enhance the visitor experience, as Qatar Tourism continues its mission to turn the country into a world-leading destination.

  • West and Russia head to showdown over aid to northwest Syria

    The key issue is whether the U.N. Security Council should authorize deliveries through the Bab al-Hawa crossing for another year as the West, U.N. and humanitarian groups want or for just six months as Russia, Syria’s closest ally, is insisting on.

  • Aramco CFO Khalid al-Dabbagh steps down

    Aramco (2222.SE) Chief Financial Officer Khalid al-Dabbagh has stepped down and been replaced by Ziad al-Murshed, who takes over the role in an acting capacity, the Saudi oil company said on Thursday. Murshed, as acting senior vice president of finance, strategy and development, will oversee Aramco’s strategy, corporate planning & performance management, treasury, finance, accounting, reporting, investor relations, and internal controls, the statement said.

  • Saudi resumes crackdown on illegal workers, residents

    Saudi has resumed its campaign of cracking down on labour and residency violators, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. The kingdom has been detaining people for residential, labour and border security regulations since November 2017. However, no announcements about the crackdown were made following the Covid-19 outbreak, when the kingdom also implemented several travel restrictions.

  • US-made drones downed over Yemen weren’t military’s, CENTCOM says

    The US military disavowed two drones reportedly shot down by Yemen’s Houthi rebels near the contested city of Marib over the weekend, saying it had lost no such unmanned aircraft recently in the region.

  • US takes down Iran-linked news sites, alleges disinformation

    The Justice Department said 33 of the seized websites were used by the Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union, which was singled out by the U.S. government last October for what officials described as efforts to spread disinformation and sow discord among American voters ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

  • Saudi Arabia intensifies crackdown on human traffickers, residency violators

    “The penalty for smugglers or those involved in facilitating the illegal entry or movement of illegal immigrants in the Kingdom, provide shelter or provide any form of assistance will face 5-10 years in jail and a fine of SR1 million ($266,000), confiscation of vehicles or property intended to transport or house them,” Border Guard official spokesman Col. Misfir bin Ghannam Al-Qiraini told Al-Ekhbariya news channel.

  • Iran’s sole nuclear power plant undergoes emergency shutdown

    This is the first time Iran has reported an emergency shutdown of the plant in the southern port city of Bushehr. It went online in 2011 with help from Russia. Iran is required to send spent fuel rods from the reactor back to Russia as a nuclear nonproliferation measure.

  • Israel and Hamas Scale Down the Conflict, Avoiding Another War

    The stage was set this week for another spasm of violence between Hamas and Israel. A provocative march was planned by far-right Israelis through Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, as it had been before the 11-day war last month. And Hamas threatened to respond with violence if the march took place, as it had in May.

  • Saudi Arabia doubling down on Diriyah Gate project, says DGDA CEO

    “What has happened is that the master plans, (following further) research, have evolved into a broader vision to allow it to be a component (of the strategy to turn) Riyadh into one of the 10 great cities of the world,” he said.