The Saudi authorities on Friday detained 100 Yemeni Houthi rebels who have infiltrated into the kingdom wearing women clothes, as 40 Saudi soldiers have been wounded in the ongoing military confrontations on the border regions between the Kingdom and Yemen, Al Arabiya correspondent said. Yemeni Houthi rebels learlier launched an attack on the borders and entered [...]
Al Arabiya is presenting an Arabic language TV show about suicide bombers tonight. In the show, they reveal that terrorist leaders explicitly use the lure of sex in Paradise as a means to recruit young men: An analysis of the content of SMS messages sent by the bombers before they blew themselves up showed that more than 80% of the suicide bombers mention a wish to meet virgins as one of the reasons...
Five Saudi border guards were wounded when Yemeni Houthi rebels launched an attack on the borders and entered al-Qarn village, which is only 5kms away from where the Saudi ground troops are deployed, Al Arabiya correspondent said. Saudi forces continued on Friday pounding the positions of the Yemeni rebels who infiltrated into the kingdom and attacked [...]
An interesting article in Al Arabiya discusses how marriage has turned into a legal way of sleeping around for young Somalians, helped by random calls on inexpensive cell phones: Bile Farah, 25, said marriages nowadays have become more of an "entertainment." "I don't think I'd be sane if it were not for the 'Qudbasiro', free-of-charge secret marriages," the unemployed secondary...
Cairo, 5 Nov. ( AKI ) - Egyptian authorities have arrested 17 suspected Islamist militants accused of being part of an illegal Jihadi organisation. According to the Arab TV network, al-Arabiya, the suspects were arrested with arms and explosives that were to be used in a series of planned terror attacks. The alleged militants were arrested in the area of Dakhiliya, in the Nile delta. Police found an...
Al Arabiya (Arabic) reports that the president of the Association of Lebanese Industrialists, Fadi Abboud, is protesting the fact that an Israeli company won an award at a New Jersey food expo for a falafel product. He is sending a letter to the organizers emphasizing that falafel is a Lebanese product, not Israeli, and to give such an award in an insult to Lebanese falafel vendors. He says that Israel...
Baghdad - Iraqi lawmakers on Wednesday again failed to reach a compromise on the thorny issue of voting in the disputed city of Kirkuk, the satellite network al-Arabiya reported. Many Iraqi Kurds hope to make Kirkuk, and its nearby oil fields, the ca...
From Al Arabiya : A group of professors in Norway have called for a boycott of Israeli academics because of "systematic" discrimination against Palestinian students and for altering history to develop the Zionist ideology, the professors said in their proposal sent to Al Arabiya on Tuesday. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where the professors work, is set to decide...
A proposal last week by Malaysia’s Islamic party argued that polygamy can be beneficial for women. The conservative Islamic party has called for Muslim men in the country to marry single mothers instead of “young virgin girls,” said a state official. Al-Arabiya news channel quoted Wan Ubaidah, head of women, family and health affairs in a [...]
From Al Arabiya : A film about the Prophet Mohammad backed by the producer of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Matrix" is under discussion, a Qatar media firm said on Sunday, with the aim of creating an English-language blockbuster for the world's 1.5 billion Muslims. Filming of the $150 million movie is set to start in 2011, with Barrie Osborne as its producer, Alnoor Holdings...
Iran to appoint clerics in all schools: report from al-Arabiya says that the religious grip appears to be tightening as clerics will be appointed to every school to oversee prayers and religious questions which teachers currently take care of. "We...
Al-Arabiya: ‘Israel wins as US drops call for settlement freeze.’ Israel savored a victory on Sunday after U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton hailed his “unprecedented” position on settlements and back tracked from a previous call for a complete freeze to settlement construction before possible peace talks with the Palestinians. “There is no question that the United...
Iran tells UN it wants fresh atomic fuel first from al-Arabiya reports that Iran is moving the goal posts in its negotiations with the IAEA and the West. World powers have been waiting for a response from Tehran for the...
American journalist Courtney C Radsch was fired from her post at Al Arabiya news on 5 October for uncovering breaches of safety at Emirates Airlines. Radsch had written an article on pilot fatigue in the airline. Within 24 hours of the article’s release, Radsch was made redundant. As visas are granted to foreigners on condition [...]
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