Competition has intensified in recent months between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in attracting foreign companies' investments, especially regarding companies with regional headquarters in the Middle...

The Palestinian Hamas group has urged Saudi Arabia to release all Palestinian prisoners, Anadolu Agency reports. "During the blessed month of Ramadan, we call on the Saudi authorities to...

Corruption in Britain is reaching startling new heights as lobby scandals threaten to engulf the government in a tsunami of sleaze. Leading the way, it seems, are both Israel...

With British politicians being scrutinised over their lobbying activities, reports have emerged that Prime Minister Boris Johnson intervened after Saudi Arabia's bid to buy Newcastle United football club ran...

Denmark's public prosecutor said today it had charged three members of an Iranian Arab opposition group for financing and supporting terrorist activity in Iran and aiding Saudi Arabian intelligence services....

Yemen's Houthi group used drones and missiles to attack targets in the southern Saudi city of Jazan, it said today, including one belonging to state oil giant Aramco which caused a fire, Reuters reported. There...

The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated that the kingdom is deeply concerned with the latest developments of Iran's nuclear programme, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) has reported. "The...

Scheck has been writing about Saudi Arabia since 2016. A graduate of Bates College, he worked at small newspapers in California before starting his career at the Journal in 2007. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an Emmy nominee.

Nearly 2 billion Muslims worldwide will mark the first day of Ramadan on Tuesday after an official sighting of the new crescent moon

The "powerful and dangerous" Israeli spyware firm NSO Group has suffered a major setback in its bid to shut down a lawsuit over the hacking of WhatsApp. Facebook, which...

Yemen's Houthi movement said today it had fired 17 drones and two ballistic missiles at targets in Saudi Arabia, including Saudi Aramco facilities in Jubail and Jeddah, Reuters reported. There...

Oman's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Badr Al-Busaidi, yesterday received a delegation from neighbouring Yemen's Houthi movement. The delegation was headed by the group's official spokesperson, Mohammed Abdulsalam, who tweeted...

Saudi oil company Aramco signed a $12.4 billion deal for the sale of a 49 per cent stake in a newly formed oil pipeline venture to a consortium led...

Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed three soldiers who were sentenced for "high treason" and "cooperating with the enemy" in a way that threatens the kingdom and its military interests,...

The separatists of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen have created a separate economy in the south of the country and obstructed the role of the Yemeni government,...

Yemen's Houthis on Sunday claimed two drone attacks on a Saudi airbase in southern Saudi Arabia. Spokesman Yahya Sare'e said the attacks targeted King Khalid Airbase and Jazan Airport...

The Saudi-led military coalition battling Yemen's Houthi movement intercepted and destroyed drones launched by the Iran-aligned group towards Khamis Mushait and Jazan in southern Saudi Arabia, state media said...

Saudi columnists on Sunday voiced concern that Western nations were not taking a tough enough stance in indirect talks aimed at restoring the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, Reuters reported. Saudi Arabia...

The minority government of Norway has stated that the $1.3 trillion wealth fund should not have Saudi stocks in the reference index, Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reported...

The Saudi Ministry of Interior has decided to fine anyone attempting to perform Umrah without obtaining a permit with 10,000 Saudi riyals. The ministry stated that the implementation of...

Coalition forces led by Saudi Arabia announced that a bomb-laden drone sent by Yemen's Houthis was eliminated early today, Anadolu Agency reports. According to a statement by the coalition,...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has approved a $389 million loan from the Saudi Fund for Development to build the King Salman University in Egypt's Sinai, the New Khaleej reported, citing...

Audio chatroom app Clubhouse is on the rise in the Arab world, providing a rare platform for open debate on taboo subjects from so-called honour killings in Egypt to...

The General President of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque, Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, announced on Tuesday that only people immunised against COVID-19 will be allowed to perform...

The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday denied reports that the kingdom had requested the release of Bassem Awadallah, former director of the Jordanian royal court who has been...

Saudi Arabia reportedly owes billions of dollars to some of the largest construction companies in the world in unpaid bills for work completed on the Riyadh metro project, which...

The United States is concerned about reports on the sentencing of a Saudi aid worker by a counterterrorism court and is watching the case closely, Reuters reported the State Department saying...

Hamas is ready to hold a dialogue with various ministerial and governmental officials in Saudi Arabia to secure the release of its detainees in the Kingdom, a movement official...

Iran has called for Saudi Arabia to engage in direct talks to solve ongoing issues between the two countries without the involvement of a third party, Foreign Ministry spokesman...

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has signed an exclusive agreement with the Saudi Sports Company to broadcast the Asian Cup and Asian Champions League, Saudi state TV said on...

Five million doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been administered across Saudi Arabia, according to the kingdom's health ministry on Monday, Anadolu reports. "More than 5 million doses have...

Professor Saad Al Faqih, a Saudi politician and founder of the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (MIRA), said on Sunday that Saudi's detention of Dr Mohammad Al Khodari,...