Amman  - Fourteen Arab countries Thursday night declared that the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan would start on Saturday after their legal moon sighting panels failed to prove the beginning of the holy month on Friday.

They are Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Algeria, the Palestinian territories and the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq. (dpa)