Saudi Arabia said three soldiers were killed today along it border with war-torn Yemen, Anadolu Agency reports. The Saudi SPA news agency said one officer and two soldiers “were...
The quest for accountability in Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death took a step forward this week with United States lawmakers calling on their intelligence chiefs to publish details about...
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Stasa Salacanin At the beginning of November, warring parties from Yemen’s south reached a power-sharing deal which aimed not only to defuse tensions among Arab alliances in South Yemen but was...
Saudi activists have called for the boycott of Emirati products, stating that they contain a “deadly poison,” especially relating to cigarettes and hookah tobacco. Activists have created the hashtag...
The Saudi ambassador to the United States visited a US naval air station in Florida on Thursday to extend her condolences for a shooting attack by a Saudi Air...
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John Kemp Oil market analysts must make sense of a bewildering array of statistics about production, consumption and inventories, compiled and published with varying definitions and degrees of accuracy and timeliness....
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World Bank Amnesty International yesterday demanded an investigation into what it described as “the role of the European arms companies in violating international humanitarian law in Yemen.” Referring to its recent...
Saudis took to Twitter to celebrate Aramco’s valuation hitting $2 trillion on Thursday, with one posting praising de-facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a fortune teller, Reuters...
‘Sportswashing’, as it is known, has slowly become the favoured tactic of autocrats and human rights abusers to gloss over their crimes and tyranny. A number of sporting icons,...
Two Israeli researchers have raised concerns regarding Saudi Arabia’s efforts to obtain nuclear capabilities, fearing that Saudi might shift its position towards Israel, or that these capabilities might reach...
Houthis’ public health minister in Yemen Taha Al-Mutawakkil, yesterday announced that 1,000 children were dying “on a daily basis” due to the “Saudi-led aggression and blockade” against the country....
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Nasim Ahmed US officials and former NSA employees build UAE secret surveillance unit
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Videos & Photo Stories Anti-war campaigners organised a protest yesterday at a Spanish port against the arrival of a Saudi cargo ship believed to be carrying US and Canadian manufactured arms to Yemen....
The Saudi budget for the next year revealed that 18% of overall expenditure was allocated to military spending, to reach $48.5 billion, down 5 per cent from $51 billion...
The United Nations is “unable to independently corroborate” that missiles and drones used in attacks on Saudi oil facilities in September “are of Iranian origin,” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told...
The absence of half of the Gulf leaders from the 40th summit hosted by Riyadh was confirmed on Tuesday, reported the official media of the six-member states of the Gulf...
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UAE Nearly 175 Saudi Arabian military aviation students have been grounded as part of a “safety stand-down” after a Saudi Air Force lieutenant shot and killed three people last week...
Qatar’s premier attended an annual Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, its highest representation since 2017, but there was no public mention of the two...
The United States on Tuesday barred from entering the country Mohammed al Otaibi, the former Saudi consul general in Istanbul in October 2018, when Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was...
Pakistani police have arrested seven Qatari nationals for illegally hunting precious birds in the Nushki district of the Balochistan province. The arrestees are said to include members of the...
Exiled Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi’s government and the Southern Transitional Council (STC) have failed to establish a power-sharing administration in line with the Riyadh Agreement, hampering any...
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani will not attend the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit, due to open in Riyadh today, Anadolu Agency reports. Sheikh Tamim assigned...
Saudi Arabia and Iran signed on Monday an agreement regarding arrangements for the next Hajj season of 1441 AH, after talks between the two sides. The Saudi Press Agency...
US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Sunday discussed last week’s Florida naval base shooting and vowed to work together on the investigation of...
Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential campaign launched new attacks on Donald Trump on Sunday, advocating a re-evaluation of US-Saudi relations and calling North Korea’s apparent weapons test a “rebuke” to...
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The Ministry of Defence in the Houthi-aligned National Salvation Government has announced that it is working on new technology for its air defence system in order to neutralise future...
Lebanon’s leading Sunni Muslim politician, Saad al-Hariri, re-emerged as a candidate for prime minister on Sunday when businessman Samir Khatib withdrew his candidacy to lead a government that must...
Investigators believe a Saudi Air Force lieutenant acted alone when he killed three people and wounded eight at a US Navy base in Pensacola, Florida, before being fatally shot...
Unrelated men and women have for decades been barred from mixing in public places under strict social rules
The Saudi airman accused of killing three people at a US NavNavay base in Florida appeared to have posted criticism of US wars and quoted slain al Qaeda leader...
Saudi Arabia said Sunday three soldiers were killed along border with war-torn Yemen, reports Anadolu Agency. The official SPA news agency said the two soldiers “were martyred in defense...