The new head of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization stressed the need to implement the treaty

Saudi and Nigerian security officials say a Hezbollah-linked smuggling ring was smuggled into Hezbollah, which planned to smuggle 450,000 capsules of the Captagon amphetamine-containing drug from Lebanon into Nigeria by sea and from there to Saudi Arabia. Neutralized in Nigeria

Saudi and Nigerian security officials say a Hezbollah-linked smuggling ring was smuggled into Hezbollah, which planned to smuggle 450,000 capsules of the Captagon amphetamine-containing drug from Lebanon into Nigeria by sea and from there to Saudi Arabia. Neutralized in Nigeria

More than a decade later, Syrian army forces entered the Daraa Balad area south of the city of Daraa under a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement. Deraa, the first point of protest in Syria, has been under government control since 2018, but the Deraa Balad area in the south was controlled by opposition forces.

Pentagon spokesman says Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's visit to Saudi Arabia on Thursday has been postponed due to a change in schedule.

In an interview with Al-Arabiya, US Undersecretary of State for Middle East Affairs Joey Hood stressed that the Biden administration would never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.