Haj 2013: Fewer pilgrims likely
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Tuesday 11 June 2013 The Haj Ministry is currently planning to considerably reduce the number of foreign and domestic Haj pilgrims this season, a reliable source has […]
World-class Madinah pilgrim city to house 200,000 faithful
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS Tuesday 11 June 2013 A state-of-the-art pilgrim city will be established in Madinah on an area of 1.6 million square meters along Hijrah Road with […]
Islamic economy higher committee tackles plans
Sunday, June 09, 2013 – Dubai—The initiative to transform Dubai into the world’s capital of the Islamic economy is progressing steadily with confidence towards the goals as scheduled, said Mohammed Abdullah Al Gergawi, Chairman of the Executive Office of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime […]
Assad may prevail in Syria’s civil war – Israeli minister
June 10, 2013 – 15:07 By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, backed by Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, may prevail in the more than two-year-old uprising against him, Israel’s intelligence minister said on Monday. Though the assessment was quickly disavowed by others in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s […]
Qatari leaders expected to step down – sources
June 10, 2013 – 14:09 By Regan Doherty DOHA (Reuters) – Qatar’s powerful prime minister is preparing to step down as part of a wider power transition that may also […]
Jerusalem’s Western Wall: Why praying without incident is a big deal
CTV: Prayers by a liberal Jewish women’s group at a key Jerusalem holy site passed without incident Sunday, in contrast to violent scuffles with ultra-Orthodox protesters a month ago. […]
Kaaba to be washed tomorrow
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 9 June 2013 The ceremonial washing of the Holy Kaaba, which is carried out before the beginning of the month of each Ramadan, is set to […]
Umrah visa’s validity limited to two weeks
JEDDAH: SIRAJ WAHAB ARABNEWS Sunday 9 June 2013 The Haj Ministry has decided to limit the validity of Umrah visas to only 14 days because of the ongoing work to […]
Opinion: The Syria the World Forgot (or, The Syria the World managed to destroy).
By ALIA MALEK Published: June 8, 2013 The New York Times LAST month, while we waited at the Lebanese border for our papers to be processed so that we could […]
Thousands march for ‘free Jerusalem’
Press TV: Thousands of Gazans have taken part in the Global March to Jerusalem. The event was held in northern Gaza, near the Israeli-controlled Erez crossing – the nearest point […]
Iraq Pays $300 Million To Terror Victims
By: Omar al-Shaher for Al-Monitor Iraq Pulse Posted on April 17. إقرأ باللغة العربية Iraq has been taking initiatives to help the families of the people who died or were wounded as a result of the acts of violence that have shaken the country since the fall of the regime […]
Islam prohibits sinful speech, excessive laughter
Friday 7 June 2013 ARABNEWS ISLAM prohibits sinful speech that intends to cause harm to other human beings. It also prohibits excessive laughter or extreme humor. People in general do not think twice about what they are saying; they forget that every word they utter is being recorded and will […]
G4S Annual General Meeting Dominated by Controversy Over Israeli Prison Contracts
PNN G4S’ involvement in the detention of Palestinian children in Israeli jails dominated the company’s Annual General Meeting On Thursday 6th June, overshadowing all other business, including last year’s Olympic […]
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Israel Lives the Joseph Story – By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
How would you like to be an Israeli strategist today? Now even Turkey is in turmoil as its people push back on their increasingly autocratic leader. I mean, there goes the neighborhood. The good news for Israel is that in the near term its near neighbors are too internally consumed […]
Al Qaeda leader Zawahri urges Syrians to unite against Assad, US
STORY SUMMARY Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri urged Syrians to unite to bring down President Bashar al-Assad and thwart what he said were U.S. plans to set up a client […]
Syrian Forces Claim Victory in Battle for Strategic Town
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian government forces and their allies in Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, seized most of the strategic crossroads town of Qusayr early on Wednesday, a painful defeat […]
4,000 Hezbollah fighters reach rebel-held Aleppo: FSA
Story Summary Over 4,000 fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah have reached the northern Syrian city of Aleppo as part of military preparations to retake the rebel-held city, a spokesman for the Free Syrian Army told The Daily Star Tuesday. According to Meqdad, Hezbollah’s military involvement in Syria showed that Syrian government […]
CPA launches campaign to monitor food prices ahead of Ramadan
JEDDAH: IBRAHIM NAFFEE & SARAH ABDULLAH ARABNEWS Wednesday 5 June 2013 With the holy month of Ramadan around the corner, the Consumer Protection Association (CPA) has launched a campaign to […]
Major low-cost housing project set in Makkah
Wednesday 5 June 2013 A major low-cost housing project is being implemented in Makkah to accommodate 2,300 Saudi families. Municipal and Rural Affairs Minister Prince Mansour yesterday inspected the progress […]
Knesset approves law barring ‘infiltrators’ from transferring money abroad
Amendment to the Law for the Prevention of Infiltration stipulates that migrants cannot send property while they are in Israel and limits the amount they can take with them once […]