The US Senate will vote on Wednesday on a resolution to end Washington’s support for the Saudi Arabia-led military campaign in Yemen, as lawmakers push President Donald Trump to...

You probably haven’t heard of Abdullah Al-Hamid, but people are calling him the Saudi Nelson Mandela

A new WikiLeaks document has raised suspicion over the appointment of Saudi Arabia – one of the world’s worst human rights offenders – to oversee the UN Human Rights...

A flight to Malaysia forced to turn around after a Saudi mother left her baby at airport

The founding member of the opposition Algerian Rashad movement, former diplomat Mohamed Larbi Zitout accused Saudi Arabia and the UAE of working to thwart the popular movement demanding President...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif yesterday congratulated Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force, Major General Qasem Soleimani, on receiving the Order of Zulfiqar medal of...

Children as young as eight were raped in the besieged Yemeni city of Taiz, Amnesty International said yesterday, pointing out that the suspects are militiamen backed by the Saudi-led...

Italy’s deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, urged Milan’s La Scala opera house on Monday to reject an offer from Saudi Arabia to pump funds into the theatre, says Reuters....

Houthis announced on Sunday that a strike carried out in Yemen by the Saudi-led Arab coalition had killed 20 women and children in the governorate of Hijja in the...

The latest data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on global arms sales, released on 11 March, is a sobering acknowledgement that the Middle East and, in...

The trial of Loujain al-Hathloul, one of nearly a dozen prominent Saudi Arabian women’s rights activists detained since last year, will begin on Wednesday, her family said on Twitter, Reuters...

German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas said his country had decided to extend the arms embargo against Saudi Arabia until the end of March. The German foreign minister made the...

A Saudi court has approved an application by detained and indebted billionaire Maan al-Sanea and his company, Saad, to have their case resolved through the kingdom’s new bankruptcy law,...

Senior US Congressmen have called for the Saudi Arabian authorities to release dual citizen Walid Fitaihi, who has been detained and tortured in Saudi prisons. In a joint statement...

Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia, Khalid Al-Falih, has announced the discovery of large amounts of gas in the Red Sea. In a statement published...

Germany will not follow Britain’s lead in declaring Iran-backed Hezbollah a terrorist organisation, a senior official was quoted as saying on Friday, a decision that may fuel tensions with...

Saudi Arabia’s air defence systems shot down a drone over the kingdom today, the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen said, and it accused the country’s Houthi fighters of launching...

Retired General John Abizaid, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia, defended the US-Saudi relationship on Wednesday as lawmakers accused the kingdom of a litany of...

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States is holding negotiations to try to win the release of US hostages held abroad, but he declined to say...

The Saudi authorities have “secretly” held a trial in absentia for the kingdom’s jailed prominent cleric Sheikh Salman Al-Ouda, his family reported yesterday.” This time, the state authorities did...

UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet called on Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to release women activists allegedly tortured in detention after authorities accused them of harming the country’s interests,...

The invitation of India to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Abu Dhabi took many by surprise. While it has long been demanding observer status in the OIC,...

King Salman Bin Abdulaziz is facing a serious challenge to his reign by none other than his own son Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, according to the British newspaper,...

Saudi Arabia yesterday welcomed the UK’s decision to blacklist Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement as a “terrorist organisation”, describing the move as “important” and “constructive” to fight terrorism, the Anadolu Agency...

Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt yesterday rejected a statement by the Union of Arab Parliaments which called for stopping normalisation with Israel, the Shehab news agency reported. Speaker of...

Many countries have increased their donations to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) following the United States (US) decision to...

Saudi Arabia is using its counter-terrorism laws to silence activists, including women, in violation of international law guaranteeing freedom of speech, United Nations human rights experts said on Monday,...

Saudi Arabia said on Monday it believes Canada will go ahead with a multibillion-dollar arms deal with the kingdom despite remarks by the Canadian prime minister that Ottawa was...

Google has dismissed concerns of human rights groups by declining to remove a Saudi government app that allows men in the country to monitor and control their female relatives’...

The dual American-Saudi prominent doctor, Walid Fitaihi, has been beaten and tortured in Saudi jails, a well-informed source reported yesterday, quoting the detainee’s family, Anadolu reports. The “Prisoners of Conscience”...

For a proposed statute still at the first stage of the legislative process, with only a handful of sponsors in the US Congress, the “No Oil Producing and Exporting...

Saudi Arabia’s cabinet has approved electronic visas for foreign visitors to attend sporting events and concerts, local media and Reuters reported, as the world’s top oil exporter tries to...