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...Through a Prince Turki al-Faisal speech in Houston, the Saudis have signalled that normalisation is not off the agenda, if Israel can show restraint....
...Other architects of Assad’s brutal system of detention and torture — such as the feared security chief and trusted Assad aide, Ali Mamlouk — are also subject to indictments....
...Saudi foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud said in February that there was a growing consensus in the region that isolating Syria was not working....
...After the deal was announced on Friday, Saudi foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said the “countries of the region share one fate”....
...Faisal Arale Afrah, a senior official at Mogadishu’s municipality, was sitting at his desk when the building was shaken to the core by the blast....
...This crescendoed in Najaf, a Shia pilgrimage site where a river of women bore us along in their mumbling tide towards the heart of Imam Ali’s shrine....
...Saudi foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud said the US remained the kingdom’s top security partner....
...Perhaps prison food isn’t such a culinary nadir after all....
...The FCC is led by Ali Haddad, a construction tycoon who is a close ally of Mr Bouteflika....
...Mr Nadir fled to northern Cyprus to escape criminal charges in 1993 but returned voluntarily to the UK in 2010....
...“I have no confidence in these trials,” said Faisal, a petroleum engineer. “The current justice minister was part of the former government.”...
...Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was moved to tears as he stood over the military commander’s coffin at a ceremony in the capital, a rare show of public grief by the supreme leader....
...But he boldly predicted that the December 7 title rematch, dubbed the “Clash on the Dunes”, would go down in the sport’s history alongside Muhammad Ali’s “Rumble in the Jungle” with George Foreman in Zaire...
...He succeeded Ali al-Naimi as energy minister in 2016, leading efforts to cut subsidies and working closely with Russia....
...The first post-colonial claim on the diamond was made by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the ninth prime minister of Pakistan, in August 1976....
...Ali Larijani, Iran’s parliamentary Speaker, met Faisal al-Mekdad, Syria’s deputy foreign minister, and said Tehran would always remain a supporter of the Syrian nation....
...Last month it was revealed that Faisal bin Hassan Trad, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador at the UN in Geneva, had been elected to a senior panel of human rights “experts” at the UN, drawing further criticism from...
...Saud al-Faisal, Saudi foreign minister, later said Gulf countries would react to “aggression” by the Iran-allied Houthis if attempts to find a diplomatic solution to the country’s unfurling crisis failed...
...The surprise assault is meant to stem the rapid advance of the Zaydi Shia militia that, allied with former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, has brought the Sunni Gulf allied-Yemeni government to the brink of...
...But the kingdom says it will continue to use its air power to check the advance of Houthi rebels and forces loyal to the former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh....
...Other key portfolios remain unchanged, including Ali al-Naimi, oil minister, finance minister Ibrahim al-Assaf, and Saud al-Faisal in the foreign ministry....
...Nadir Ali Sayed, 21, from Hounslow, west London, Yousaf Shah Syed, 19, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and Haseeb Hamayoon, 27, from Hayes, west London appeared in a London magistrates' court on Thursday...
...It is down 50 per cent from last summer’s peak and within touching distance of the financial crisis nadir of 2008. A return to $100-plus levels looks remote....
...Faisal I of Iraq, by Ali Allawi, Yale, RRP£30/$40, 672 pages The Hashemites are the Bourbons of the Middle East; history could not be written without them....
...When Saudi foreign minister Saud al-Faisal announced in May that he was inviting his Iranian counterpart for a visit, it raised hopes that it could herald a thaw in relations between the two regional rivals...
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