Saudi Arabia

I was recently visited by two American diplomats in Education City in Qatar who are interested in the political transformations in the Arab region. We had a long talk...

The US and its Arab partners air raids against oil fields controlled by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Syria yesterday evening, the Pentagon announced. The source confirmed that Saudi...

The Special Criminal Court in Riyadh yesterday sentenced three Saudis to death and 20 others to prison terms ranging from five to 25 years over charges of joining an...

Two British human rights workers have finally made it back to the UK following their unexpected stay with the Qatari security services. They were arrested while investigating abuses against...

A global Islamic campaign entitled "ISIS, the ignorance of the Kharijites, and penetrating the intelligence" has been aired on more than 25 Islamic satellite channels starting yesterday evening and...

The Egyptian, Saudi and other Arab "moderates" position on the Gaza war has been presented in most media discussion and political analysis as a striking departure from previous policy...

Saudi Arabia's labour department said that the number of Egyptians working in the Kingdom was estimated to be 968,000 at the end of 2013, representing about 40 per cent...

An Egyptian diplomatic source has cited Saudi and American pressures for a recent Qatari move to expel seven Muslim Brotherhood figures from the country. "Saudi and U.S. pressures were...

The release of 45 Fijian UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights was down to Qatar's mediation, Doha announced. A statement by the Qatari foreign ministry said that Qatar mediated...

The Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Salaheddine Mezouar said yesterday that his country had not received an invitation to participate in the conference hosted by Saudi Arabia...

Saudi Arabia has denied having exchanged diplomatic representation with the Syrian regime, which it described as having lost legitimacy, the Anadolu news agency reported. The official Saudi Press Agency...

A Saudi court yesterday sentenced 17 defendants to jail on charges of financing terrorism, the Saudi News Agency reported. The defendants, 16 of them Saudi and one Senegalese, received...

France and Saudi Arabia are finalising a $3 billion arms deal to provide the Lebanese army with weapons, the French presidency announced yesterday following talks between French President Francois...

Arab Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary-General Dr Abdullatif Al-Zayani said GCC Foreign Ministers will review, during their meeting in Jeddah next Saturday, the final report of the committee which follows...

Iran Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian met yesterday with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal in Jeddah to discuss regional developments and the "fight against extremism and terrorism",...

Saudi Arabia imports almost 70 per cent of its food requirements, according to an economic study conducted by the Saudi Agriculture Exhibition, which noted that the Kingdom pays 90...

Most observers of the Israeli Palestinian conflict have come to the conclusion that Israeli expansionist ideologies can be viewed from a myriad of perspectives. At the one extreme, there...

Saudi Arabia announced Saturday that it will host on Sunday the Friends of Syria meeting in the city of Jeddah which will include the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia,...

"Iran's relations with the regional countries including Saudi Arabia are taking their normal course," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said on Wednesday. Afkham said, during her weekly press conference:...

When the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia enters an alliance with Iran and the US coordinates security with President Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime (against which, a year ago, America was...

French police sources said that the Saudi prince, who was robbed on Monday, was Abdul-Aziz Bin Fahd, known as "playful". The prince is the youngest son of the late...

The Saudi Embassy in France has denied the media reports claiming that "one of its cars was attacked while on its way to the airport carrying large sums of...

A motorcade containing a Saudi prince was forced off the road at gunpoint in Paris last night, a heavily armed gang stole €250,000 and "sensitive" documents as it hijacked...

The Lebanese cabinet has approved a Saudi grant worth 1$bn for the army and security forces, the minister of information said Thursday. According to the Lebanese minister of information,...

Another round of negotiations are taking place between the united Palestinian delegation and the Israeli delegation in Cairo after Egypt's efforts to reach another 72 hour cease-fire to stop...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and his Saudi counterpart King Abdullah Bin Abdel-Aziz discussed ways to counter "Islamic extremism" during their two-day talks in Jeddah, Saudi Press Agency reported....

The King Abdulaziz necklace is the highest honour the Saudi Kingdom can bestow on international statesmen. It has graced the necks of such "men of high standing" as George...

Saudi's King Abdallah presented Egypt's President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi with the highest medal of honour in the Kingdom during their meeting in Jeddah yesterday. The visit by Al-Sisi is...

The Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Ben Zayed Al-Nahyan, arrived in Jeddah yesterday evening during a two-day visit by Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi to the...

Saudi Arabia's northern border with Iraq is safe and equipped with the latest security equipment including infrared cameras, the spokesman for the Saudi border guards, General Mohammad Saad Al-Ghamdi...

Two loans each worth $60 million will be given to a Saudi company to contribute to the construction process of the Mall of Arabia in October 6 City in...

A number of Muslim scholars in Saudi Arabia have issued a lengthy statement calling for the Muslim and Arab nations to support the people of the Gaza Strip in...