Iran says ready to put rivalries aside with Saudi Arabia

The UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea said in an October 21 report that Eritrea was allowing the Arab coalition to use its land, airspace and territorial waters in a “new strategic military relationship with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates”.

Kuwait, a USA ally and neighbour of Saudi Arabia and Iraq, is part of a 34-nation alliance announced by Riyadh in December aimed at countering Islamic State and al Qaeda in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt and Afghanistan.

A meeting with Turkish Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar that coincided with a visit with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, has revealed that Turkey and Saudi Arabia will conduct joint military exercises.

“We are bound by a common destiny”, he said.

A man opened fire at local education department offices in southern Saudi Arabia on Thursday, killing six employees and injuring two others, the interior ministry said, describing the incident as a criminal attack.

The first of these two is that the United States has not made any preparations for ground troops to be deployed to Syria, as it knows a United Nations decision can not be met due to Russia’s stance in the civil war in Syria.

But he said that “our world must… act as one on the diplomatic front”.

Ursula von der Leyen said at a security conference in Munich that pictures of the destruction in Syria make it clear that the country will need people with “very varied capabilities” to rebuild it. She noted Friday that the military offers training to craftspeople, technicians, logisticians and others.

Saudi Arabia is a member of the U.S.-led coalition that has been fighting Islamic State in Syria since 2014.

The second was that the Turkish army would not set foot on Syrian soil without a U.N. Security Council resolution.

The latest quagmire in the mid-east has led to the oil rich kingdom leading a coalition of countries carrying out airstrikes and ground operations in neighboring Yemen in support of the deeply impoverished country’s worldwide recognized government along with financing rebellion against Syria’s incumbent government as led by dictator, Bashar Hafez al-Assad.