Middle East

MECCA, July 27, 2025 — Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Tourism has announced the closure of 25 hospitality establishments in the holy city of Mecca this month for breaching tourism regulations. The move comes as part of an intensified inspection…

GENEVA, July 27: The United Nations’ humanitarian chief has welcomed Israel’s announcement of temporary “humanitarian pauses” and the opening of secure land routes into Gaza to allow aid deliveries to the besieged enclave. “Welcome the…

RIYADH: A highly specialized Saudi medical team has begun a delicate operation to separate Syrian conjoined twin girls at the King Abdullah Specialist Children’s Hospital in Riyadh. The twins, Celine and Eileen Abdulmunem Al-Shabli, are…

PARIS, July 25 (Voice of Malaysia): In a historic and controversial move, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France will officially recognize Palestine as a sovereign state—making it the most powerful Western nation to…

GAZA, 24 July: Two more Palestinian journalists have been killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, raising the death toll of media workers killed in the conflict to 231 since October 2023, according to Gaza’s Government Media…

SEA OF OMAN, 23 July: Tensions in the Persian Gulf escalated further this week after an Iranian Navy helicopter intercepted the USS Fitzgerald, a U.S. Navy destroyer, in the Sea of Oman and forced it to alter course. According to an…

GAZA, 24 July: A former U.S. security contractor has come forward with disturbing revelations about the conduct of American and Israeli personnel at humanitarian aid distribution sites in Gaza, shedding light on what he describes as the…

GAZA CITY, July 23: A deepening humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in the Gaza Strip, where starvation and malnutrition have claimed the lives of at least 101 Palestinians, 89 of them children, according to the latest report by the…

LONDON / DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip – July 23 (Voice of Malaysia): As Israeli military operations intensify in central Gaza, a worsening humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in real time—most tragically for children and mothers caught in…

RIYADH, July 23 (Voice of Malaysia): Saudi Arabia has welcomed a joint statement issued by 28 countries urging an immediate end to the ongoing war in Gaza, as the humanitarian crisis in the besieged Palestinian territory continues to…