By Haider Abbas When Rex Tillerson, US former Secretary of state, is said to have ‘stopped in the heels’ the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and United Arab Emirates (UAE) attempt to invade Qatar in 2017, according to TheIntercept, on August 1, 2018, something which has...
By Haider Abbas There seem to be more and more trouble brewing in the Middle-East, apart from the spread of COVID-19 pandemic , as the latest bombshell to come is from Qatar defense minister Khalid Al Attiyah who has claimed that Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) with UAE...
Khashoggi’s ‘case file will not be buried, simply because he was not buried,’ says human rights expert Two years on, the main figures accused in the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul have not been held accountable, but this cannot go on...
ABU DHABI: A joint venture between GrowGroup IFS from Barendrecht (The Netherlands) and RainMakers Capital Investment from Abu Dhabi, UAE, will build the largest indoor farm in the world in the desert of Abu Dhabi. The GreenFactory Emirates will produce 10,000 tonnes...
General Authority of Civil Aviation takes the decision in view of Covid-19 pandemic RIYADH — Saudi Arabia on Wednesday suspended air travel to and from India, Brazil and Argentina. The decision was taken in view of the COVID-19 pandemic According to the country’s...
By Haider Abbas US is ‘pushing-off’ from Afghanistan and China is ‘pushing-in’ into Afghanistan is how the next years of Afghanistan coming to be, and with it, it has hit the US that its worst bête noirs i.e. Afghanistan and Iran are to have now Chinese military...
Protests have broken across Egypt against the rule of General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, reported the Middle East Monitor. Following security forces’ attack on demonstrators, the presidential residence in Aswan, Upper Egypt, was set on fire. One video at another protest...
Dubai: Economies in the Middle East are forecast to shrink by 7.6% this year, almost double the 3.9% contraction which they predicted in April, said the Economic Outlook report from Oxford Economics, commissioned by ICAEW (the Institute of Chartered Accountants in...
Saudi authorities have recently arrested Sheikh Abdullah Basfar, one of the well-known Quran reciters across the world, the Prisoners of Concience disclosed on Twitter. The Prisoners of Concience said that Basfar was arrested in August. however, it did not provide any...
MANAMA: An air bubble agreement has been finalised by Bahrain and India to facilitate travel between the two countries, the Indian Embassy in Bahrain has announced. As per the arrangement, both Indian and Bahraini national carriers will be permitted to operate...