Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced today that his country is willing to mediate in the crisis between Qatar and the Gulf countries led by Saudi Arabia, if a...

The sanctions came after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the Saudi-led coalition's military campaign in Yemen which has left thousands of civilians dead

Saudi Arabia’s oil exports declined 62 per cent in the second quarter of 2020, the state-run Saudi General Authority for Statistics announced yesterday. In an official statement, the authority said...

Israel plans to persuade the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to promote the construction of a pipeline between Saudi Arabia and Israel for oil and distillates for shipping, from the...

Health authorities several Arab countries confirmed on Thursday new infections and fatalities from the novel coronavirus, Anadolu Agency reports. Iraq’s Health Ministry said in a statement that 84 people had died...

An Israeli firm provided phone hacking services to Saudi Arabia, a new investigation by Haaretz has uncovered in a detailed report exposing the cosy relation between some of the worst human...

Saudi Arabia’s Heritage Commission yesterday announced the discovery of ancient human and animal footprints said to be 120,000 years old in the north-west Tabuk region of the Kingdom. The...

Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov received a telephone call on Wednesday from his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al-Saud, during which the two officials discussed the...

In a joint statement signed on Tuesday, 31 NGOs called for the international community and the United Nations (UN) to put pressure on the parties in Yemen to stop...

Further details have emerged of the horrific treatment meted out to African migrants by Saudi officials in the second report in a month by the Telegraph exposing the “slave” like treatment...

US President Donald Trump said yesterday he expects Saudi Arabia to normalise relations with Israel following the diplomatic move taken by Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates at a...

Qatar has completely rejected normalising ties with Israel, stressing that this is not the core of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. Speaking to Bloomberg on Monday, spokesperson of Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs...

US officials are at growing risk of being prosecuted for war crimes over the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, a New York Times investigation has revealed as...

Three international NGOs boycotted meetings that Saudi Arabia is holding with civil society groups ahead of the annual Group of Twenty (G20) Summit, saying the Riyadh regime is trying...

Former al Jazeera director, Yasser Abu Hilala, has refuted claims by the Saudi funded Al Arabiya News Channel that he had called for a blacklist of journalists, writers, and...

The UN nuclear watchdog is in wide-ranging talks with Saudi Arabia about tougher supervision of the kingdom’s nuclear activities, the agency said on Monday, part of a wider effort...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pressed on Monday for a solution to the three-year rift between the Gulf state of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,...

The Palestinian leadership yesterday said it had received “economic temptations” from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to accept the latter’s decision to normalise ties with Israel....

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The Saudi Public Prosecution has accused Palestinian and Jordanian prisoners being held in the kingdom of being affiliated to terror groups and supporting or financing terror acts, a Jordanian...

The Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has announced the end of the memorandum of understanding with Vodafone to acquire its 55 per cent stake in Vodafone-Egypt after ending talks on...

The Saudi-led coalition launched 11 airstrikes on positions of Houthi rebels in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday, the Shia group said, Anadolu Agency reported. Five airstrikes targeted the vicinity of...

A US federal judge issued a court order on Thursday addressed to the Saudi government, requiring access to 24 current and former Saudi officials to provide statements about their...

US President Donald Trump has reportedly boasted of saving the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from being held accountable for the murder of exiled Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi two years ago,...

When he first became imam of the Grand Mosque of Makkah, 38 years ago, Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais was the most loved by the people. His recitation of the Quran...

Saudi Arabia has been encouraing members of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries  (OPEC) and other producers such as Russia, known as OPEC+, to incerase output in the...

Amnesty International has called for an independent and impartial international investigation into the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered by a Saudi hit squad inside the kingdom’s consulate in...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s normalisation with Israel is a “major shift in the Middle East countries’ policy towards the Israeli state,” US senior White House adviser, Jared Kushner,...

The Yemeni Houthi group announced on Thursday that it struck an “important target” in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, using a ballistic missile and drones. Houthi Spokesman Yahya Sarea...

Saudi Arabia and Bahrain will open their airspace to allow all flights to and from Israel, White House adviser Jared Kushner announced. He added that any Israeli flights would...

In the three-way battle over the future of Newcastle United Football Club, owner Mike Ashley has finally confirmed that the Saudi Arabia takeover bid was rejected by the Premier...

Iraq’s Cabinet has approved loans granted by Saudi Arabia and China this week, further deepening its relations with the two states. In the weekly Iraqi cabinet meeting on Tuesday,...