On July 7, 2026, French President Emmanuel Macron, accompanied by Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, visited the Umayyad Masjid in Damascus. This marked the first visit by a French president to Syria since...

Al-Raya Newspaper: Prominent Headlines of Issue 608

The US renewed its attacks on Iran on July 12, 2026. US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that this third round of strikes in a single week followed a brazen attack by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on a container ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz; the US claimed to have struck 140 Iranian military targets.

Afrah Al-Zouba, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation and Yemen’s Governor to the World Bank Group, stated officially that the World Bank has approved funding for the “Cash-for-Nutrition and...