ABU DHABI: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which head an Arab coalition fighting Iran-aligned Houthi forces in Yemen, will provide $200 million in aid to the country for use during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the UAE said on Monday. The Saudis and Emiratis are working with ...

RIYADH: Saudi-led coalition air strikes killed dozens of people, including children traveling on a bus through a market, in Yemen’s Saada province, a Yemeni health official and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said. The Western-backed alliance fighting the Iranian-aligned ...

*RIYADH - Saudi Arabia has sought to tame critics with an aggressive foreign policy, but a deadly air raid in Yemen following an acrimonious spat with Canada will only amplify international pressure on the kingdom, analysts say.* An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition hit a bus in rebel-held ...

The United Nations says Syria’s war rages unabated despite a fall in the number of besieged civilians. U.N. humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland while talking to reporters in Geneva, said millions of civilians were still caught up in the seven-year-old conflict and many who escaped battle zones ...

PESHAWAR: Death awaits you in Afghanistan, says refugee Mohammad Wali, insisting he prefers to endure a grim existence in a Pakistani camp than return home and be killed. Islamabad has increasingly put Afghan refugees in the crosshairs in recent weeks, claiming that militants hide in Pakistani ...

UNITED NATION: The United Nations has called on Russia, Turkey and Iran to achieve de-escalation in the fighting in Idlib in Syria. The UN Humanitarian Advisor, Jan Egeland, while talking to reporters in Geneva (Thursday), also called for a humanitarian pause in the besieged rebel-held enclave of ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said he was “very concerned” over U.S. decision to withhold about half the initial aid it planned to give the U.N. agency mandated to care for Palestinian refugees. In announcing that it would provide $60 million to the U.N. Relief and Welfare ...