Korean boy band BTS defends its decision to perform in Riyadh after being attacked for it online

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has requested help from South Korea to strengthen the kingdom’s air defence system, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported yesterday. The request...

In what is being described as a first of its kind, Israel is set to sign a free trade deal with South Korea that excludes settlements in the occupied...

South Korea plans to join a US-led maritime force in the Middle East by sending a naval unit, which includes a destroyer, to help guard oil tankers sailing through...

Israel media have revealed that the new South Korea-Israel Free Trade agreement will exclude goods produced in the occupied territories of Jerusalem and West Bank and the Golan Heights....

Saudi Arabia’s Military Industries (SAMI) announced, Sunday, the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with three affiliate companies of Korea’s Hanwha Group to establish a joint venture company...

Whenever I have visited Palestine and speak to Palestinians I am always asked, “Why doesn’t the West care about our suffering?” It’s a question that I try to avoid...

Ahead of his participation at the G20 summit in Japan, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince on Thursday visited the weapon development agency of South Korea, Anadolu Agency reports. Mohammed bin Salman “voiced...

South Korea plans to set up a joint nuclear energy research centre in Saudi Arabia, the South Korean Ministry of Science and Technology said. The project aims to boost...

The United States demanded that buyers of Iranian oil stop purchases by May 1 or face sanctions

Saudi Arabia will be hosting the G20 summit next year, state news agency SPA said WednesdayAnadolu reports. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will host the 15th annual G20 Leaders’ Summit...

Tunisia, South Korea and African Development Bank yesterday signed a deal to establish a training centre for drones used for data collection to the enhance management of agricultural projects,...

US senators from both parties on Tuesday asked Energy Secretary Rick Perry for details about recent approvals for companies to share nuclear energy information with Saudi Arabia, with the...

Three of eight countries granted waivers by Washington to import oil from Iran have now cut the imports to zero, a US official said on Tuesday, adding that improved...

The US government is considering additional sanctions against Iran that would target areas of its economy that have not been hit before, a senior Trump administration official told reporters...

South Korean government officials are expected to press for extending a sanctions waiver on Iran’s petroleum exports that expires in May on a visit to Washington this week, Reuters reports....

President of King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy in Saudi Arabia, Khalid Al-Sultan, said the kingdom has received offers from five countries to build the first two...

The United Arab Emirates’ Energy Minister Suhail Al-Mazrouei said yesterday that work at the country’s first nuclear power station will not begin as planned at the end of 2019....

All countries that were granted waivers from the United States to continue buying a certain amount of Iranian oil imports are complying with US sanctions, a senior Iranian energy official said, noting...

The South Korean embassy in Cairo yesterday criticised the suggestion made by an Egyptian Member of Parliament to resolve Egypt’s stray dog problem by exporting them to countries that...

Iran and South Korea are working to set up a mechanism to barter South Korean goods for Iranian oil exports, an Iranian trade official was quoted as saying by...

South Korea has announced that it is planning to buy two early warning radar systems from Israel to reinforce its air defences against ballistic missiles, Israel Hayom reported yesterday....

In December 2012 Abdelrahman Zaid became one of the thousands of civilians to be incarcerated in Mubarak’s sweep to end the Arab Spring. At the time of his arrest...

South Korea has recently refused an official request by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to visit Seoul over the coming months, Israeli media reported. Israel’s Ynet news site reported that...

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....

China, seeking to skirt US sanctions, will use oil tankers from Iran for its purchases of that country’s crude, throwing Tehran a lifeline while European companies such as France’s...

The civil war in Yemen has led to incredible human suffering, described by the UN as “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” While the military involvement of the Saudi Arabia-led...

South Korea’s Ministry of Justice will be tightening immigration laws amid an influx of Yemenis entering the country, Reuters reported today. More than 552 Yemenis arrived in the southern...