Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabian King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz has donated $53.3 million to the victims of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, the official Saudi news agency reported yesterday evening....

Saudi Arabia's abilities to maneuver in Yemen are limited because it is not open to dealing with most of the key players in the Yemeni arena including the Houthis,...

Is King Abdullah the most progressive, liberal Saudi monarch to date? Quite possibly, though it's a limited field and a low bar. Still, thanks to him, seventy thousand Saudi...

The veteran Bahrain human rights activist Nabeel Rajab has renewed his call for discussions with the government with the hope of ending more than three years of unrest in...

A criminal court in Saudi Arabia has convicted lawyer and human rights activist Waleed Abul-Khair to 15 years in jail after finding him guilty of "harming the Kingdom's reputation...

Anti-Syrian groups in Lebanon have expressed their concerns about the potential nomination of Bahjat Suleiman as the new Syrian ambassador to Beirut after he was dismissed as Syrian ambassador...

Both Saudi King Abdullah and the US Secretary of State John Kerry agree that the Sunni population of Iraq need to have greater involvement in the political arena in...

Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz has issued a royal decree appointing Prince Khalid Bin Bandar as head of Intelligence and Prince Bandar Bin Sultan as adviser and special...

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah issued a royal decree Saturday sacking the deputy defence minister Prince Khaled Bin Bandar Abdulaziz Al-Saud barely six weeks after appointing him, the official Saudi...

The more that we view it, the humiliating display of Egypt's president boarding that Saudi Arabian aircraft with solemnity and bowing to kiss the head of King Abdullah Ibn...

There are no hidden messages in the controversial return of the Saudi Prince Bandar Bin Sultan to the political arena, but his return proves that the crisis between Saudi...

There are no surprises in the recent British Petroleum report which provides statistics pertaining to main energy resources. The report, which is considered as a main reference in this...

A proposed donor conference to support Egypt's economy is expected to dominate Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz's talks with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi in Cairo, a Saudi diplomatic source...

Iraq is heading towards a civil war fuelled by hate with unexpected consequences, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal warned yesterday. Al-Faisal also accused the Iraqi government of adopting...

The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has called for international intervention to stop Israel's escalation against the Palestinians. "The Israeli military has committed crimes against Palestinian civilians under the...

An Iraqi TV channel with links to the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki aired commercials calling on Iraqis to boycott Turkish and Saudi products. According to the Anadolu news...

US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said at a joint press conference in Jeddah Tuesday with his Saudi counterpart Ibrahim al-Assaf that developments in Iraq indicate the need for redoubling...

The countries participating in the Rome Conference to support the Lebanese army affirmed their readiness to provide it with special technical support. The Conference, which was held in the...

A spokesperson for the US State Department rejected on Tuesday statements made by Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki accusing Saudi Arabia of sponsoring terrorism. Jen Psaki described his claims...

Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Monday that French arms sales increased by 42 per cent or €6.7 billion in 2013 compared to 2012 and are expected to...

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS)'s ability to control large areas in northern Iraq "was expected because of Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's sectarian policies and...

In George Orwell's novel 1984, Winston Smith, whose job it is to edit historical documents so they reflect the party line, reads from Goldstein's book. "In accordance to the...

A new report from Human Rights Watch revisits the torture camps of Yemen, where the only way out for the tens of thousands of migrant workers interned each year...

Saudi officials intervened at the last minute on Sunday to prevent a rift occurring between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Egyptian authorities during the inauguration ceremony of President...

Since the beginning of the Arab Spring we have witnessed things we haven't seen in decades. A popular storm swept public squares expressing the failure of states to meet...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed with his Saudi counterpart Prince Saud Al-Faisal, during a telephone call today, ways to resolve the Syrian crisis and other regional issues. The...

Untangling the complex relations between China, Russia, the Gulf states and "the West"is no easy task. Although Beijing and Moscow have long kept a small hand in Gulf affairs,...

The ambassadors of the three Gulf States, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain, who were withdrawn on March 5, are to return to their offices in Doha within days,...

The leader of Tunisia's Ennahda party, Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi, confirmed in an interview with Al Hiwar TV that he was visited in his Tunis offices by Sir John Jenkins,...

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait have transferred billions of dollars to Egypt since the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood, to heal the rift that hit the...

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah hailed on Tuesday the victory of the Egyptian coup leader in the presidential elections, after he allegedly won 96 per cent of the votes, and...

The visit of Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah to Iran last Sunday didn't succeed in paving the way for Saudi-Iranian understanding and reconciliation, diplomatic sources revealed. Iranians appeared...