Explore Events

Mauritanian Defence Minister Hanena Ould Sidi met a visiting NATO military delegation in Nouakchott led by Major General Massimo Spadavicchia, deputy director of NATO’s Cooperative Security Division. Mauritania’s Defence Ministry said the talks addressed existing cooperation and ways to strengthen and develop it, particularly in defence. The NATO delegation later met the ministry’s secretary-general and other Mauritanian military officials. No specific new technical agreements were announced following the meetings, which the source states took place on Tuesday.

The Saudi cabinet approved on Tuesday a memorandum of understanding between Saudi Arabia's Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority and Syria's Central Authority for Control and Inspection on preventing and combating corruption. The source does not state the signing date or the details of the planned cooperation. The item was one of several agreements approved at the Riyadh session, and the source does not characterize the wider Saudi-Syrian relationship beyond this memorandum.

The Saudi cabinet approved an agreement between Saudi Arabia and Turkey on mutual exemption from visa requirements for holders of diplomatic and special passports, during its session in Riyadh on Tuesday. The report provides no signing date, effective date, or number of eligible travelers. It was one of several decisions adopted at the session, alongside other agreements and memoranda with other countries, and the source gives no further context on the bilateral relationship.

The Saudi cabinet noted progress in establishing the secretariat-general of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement and forming its committees and working groups. It also welcomed steps taken at meetings of foreign ministers and chiefs of general staff of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey, aimed at coordination and military cooperation to strengthen collective deterrence and defense. The source gives no dates or locations for those meetings and describes no specific deployments.

The Saudi cabinet on Tuesday strongly condemned what it described as continued violations of Al-Aqsa Mosque's sanctity and status by Israeli occupation officials and extremist settlers, and continued expansionist attempts against Palestinian rights. It reaffirmed that just and lasting peace requires implementing the two-state solution, with an independent Palestinian state on 1967 borders and East Jerusalem as its capital. The source does not detail specific incidents at Al-Aqsa.

The Saudi cabinet stressed on Tuesday the importance of protecting freedom of navigation in the Hormuz and Bab al-Mandeb straits, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. It called for conditions in Hormuz to return to what they were before 28 February, with no fees or restrictions, and rejected use of these routes as tools of pressure or threat. The statement does not name Iran; other files report Iranian restrictions on Hormuz shipping.

The Saudi cabinet welcomed a statement by UN Security Council members condemning continued attacks by the Houthis, whom the Saudi statement calls a terrorist militia, on Saudi Arabia and commercial ships. The statement said the attacks threaten Red Sea and Bab al-Mandeb navigation and undermine efforts for peace in Yemen. The source gives neither the date of the Council statement nor the specific incidents, and includes no Houthi response.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman briefed the cabinet on Tuesday in Riyadh about phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad, and a meeting with UAE Vice President Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed. The Saudi statement said discussions covered bilateral relations and regional developments, and efforts to strengthen regional and international security and stability. The source gives no dates for these contacts and no further detail on what was agreed.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call from Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Tuesday, according to the Saudi Press Agency as relayed by CNN Arabic. The crown prince stressed the kingdom's concern for Sudan's stability, sovereignty and territorial unity, and its support for efforts toward stability, development and the return of displaced people and refugees. Burhan had visited Riyadh in December 2025. The Saudi cabinet later noted the call.

Palestinians in Nuseirat camp, central Gaza, held funerals on Tuesday for 51 people whose bodies were recently recovered by rescue teams from under the rubble of destroyed homes. According to the Sabq report, citing Palestinian sources, the burials indicate continuing recovery of victims of earlier bombardment. The report does not say when or how the victims died. WAFA's cumulative tally since the war began stood at 74,023 dead and 175,980 wounded on Tuesday.

Local sources reported that one Palestinian was killed in an Israeli attack in the Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City, on Tuesday. The report gives no further detail on the circumstances, the victim or the weapon used. It is one of several incidents cited as part of continuing Israeli shooting, shelling and demolition of buildings in various areas of Gaza, reported by the Palestinian Information Center, despite the ceasefire in force since October 2025.

Israeli forces shot dead a young man identified as Ahmed Abu Mur on Salah al-Din Street in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, on Tuesday, according to local Palestinian sources. WAFA had earlier reported three Palestinians killed and others wounded in Deir al-Balah and Gaza City. The killing was among the daily shooting and shelling incidents reported across the Strip, which occurred despite the ceasefire that took effect in October 2025, per Palestinian sources.