Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Thursday welcomed US Treasury sanctions on 17 Saudi officials for their role in the killing last month of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and...

Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau said Monday that his country is discussing with other countries next steps towards Saudi Arabia following the murder of Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. “We...

Back in September, before the disappearance and murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul on 2 October, I came across a story...

It’s hard not to be moved on a personal level by Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal murder. The circumstances — the fact that his fiancée was waiting outside for him, expecting...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today it would be very hard to scrap an arms deal with Riyadh worth up to $13 billion as critics have demanded. Trudeau...

Canada is prepared to freeze a big arms deal with Saudi Arabia if it concludes the weapons have been misused, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, amid increasing...

Canada has announced that it is contributing $50 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Some $40 million would be allocated over two...

Turkish authorities believe Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside his country’s consulate in Istanbul last week, Turkish sources said, in what they described as the deliberate targeting of...

Saudi Arabia will allow Turkey to search its consulate in Istanbul for prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who has been missing for three days after entering the diplomatic mission...

Saudi Arabia used Israeli technology to spy on a Saudi dissident in Canada, a report has claimed. According to a report by Canada-based research group Citizen Lab, Saudi Arabia...

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said yesterday that she hopes to meet her Saudi counterpart, Adel Al-Jubeir, this week on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meetings in...

The UK has granted asylum to 29 members of the White Helmets civil defence unit and up to 70 of their family members under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme,...

Fear sparked by a recent cholera outbreak has led to a significant decline in consumer’s demand for fruits and vegetables from Algeria. Algeria’s export market has suffered particularly badly. Despite unprecedented growth...

The diplomatic crisis between Canada and Saudi Arabia is around a month old. It blew up after a Canadian official criticised the poor human rights record of Saudi Arabia...

The diplomatic crisis between Saudi Arabia and Canada sparked a silent crisis with Germany. This began when German and European newspapers criticised the Saudi authorities for its response. Moreover,...

Saudi Arabia has exempted its trainee doctors in Canada from the deadline the kingdom set for more than 12,000 students to return home after severing diplomatic relations with Ottawa....

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday refused to retreat in her country’s row with Saudi Arabia over the human rights situation in the kingdom. “Canada will always defend human...

More than 30 members of Congress on Monday urged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to unequivocally condemn a recent crackdown on rights activists in Saudi Arabia and call for their...

Yedioth Ahronoth revealed that “the Israeli navy participated in the world’s largest maritime exercise alongside Islamic countries”. The military expert Yoav Zitun stated on Saturday that “this exercise, known as...

The European and American medicines agencies have sent a letter to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman warning him of the dangers that the continuation of diplomatic disputes between...

Turkey’s presidential spokesman has blasted Washington for disregarding the legal process in the case of an American pastor facing terrorism-related charges. In a written statement to Reuters late Wednesday,...

Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in his first purported speech in nearly a year, has called on followers to fight on despite recent defeats, according to an audio recording...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman said on Wednesday remarks by the US National Security Adviser regarding Turkey’s economic situation were proof that the US administration is targeting a NATO...

Five Canadian universities said on Wednesday that Saudi trainee doctors enrolled in their programs had been granted an extra three weeks in the country, a brief reprieve as a...

Canada called for the release of human rights activists in Saudi Arabia three years before the same request was made via Twitter sparking tension between the two countries, according...

Libya and Canada have agreed on the importance of the provision of a solid constitutional basis for holding parliamentary and presidential elections and on holding both elections simultaneously, the...

International human rights groups and German parliamentarians have called on the European Union and the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel to “publically and unequivocally” support Canada in its dispute...

Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia has been touting socio-political and economic reforms in his country since June 2017; they include the privatisation of ARAMCO, the country’s...

The European Union has asked Saudi Arabia to shed light on the arrests and charges facing women human rights activists, saying that the detainees should be granted due process to defend themselves....

Canada has asked its allies to help de-escalate tensions with Saudi Arabia, news agencies reported an informed government source saying. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said...

The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stressed, Wednesday, his country’s persistence in defending human rights, refusing to apologise to Saudi Arabia for Canada’s opposition to the detention of activists...

The Canada-Saudi spat looks set to accelerate as the Kingdom’s central bank ordered its fund managers to withdraw hundreds of millions of dollars in equities, bonds and cash from...