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...

Saudi Arabia has revoked the citizenship of Osama Bin Laden’s son Hamza after announcing that it has emerged that he has taken over his father’s position as the head...

Doubts have been raised about Saudi Arabia’s plans for its nuclear capabilities, which it maintains are for peaceful purposes, to meet its population’s energy needs. However a US body...

More than 100 Bangladeshi female workers abused or exploited in Saudi Arabia returned home this week, according to human rights activists, fuelling calls to stop sending Bangladeshi women to...

Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor is preparing the trials of detainees, identified by watchdog groups as women’s rights activists, after completing its investigations, state news agency SPA said on Friday,...

The European Commission’s attempt to include Saudi Arabia in its money-laundering blacklist has been struck a heavy blow by EU member states. The virtually unanimous opposition against the inclusion...

The new leader of Germany’s ruling Christian Democrats, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, has accused the Social Democrats (SPD) of jeopardising Germany’s defence industry and jobs by refusing to soften its stance...

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduced legislation on Thursday to ensure congressional oversight of any civilian nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia, Reuters reports. Last...

The adoption of a European Union money-laundering blacklist, which includes Saudi Arabia as well as Puerto Rico and three other US territories, could be blocked by EU governments under...

Airbus has decided to redesign the C295 military transport aircraft it builds in Spain to remove German components following Germany’s freeze on arms exports to Saudi Arabia, company sources...

Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Wednesday that OPEC and its partners were “taking it easy”, in response to a tweet from US President Donald Trump requesting that...

A Saudi minister told the United Nations on Wednesday that it would cooperate with its human rights mechanisms, but he did not explicitly refer to a UN-led inquiry into...

White House adviser Jared Kushner made a whirlwind visit this week to rally US-allied Gulf Arab allies to support his still- unannounced Middle East peace plan, the leaked contours...

Global indifference to human rights violations in the Middle East is fuelling atrocities and repression, warns Amnesty International in its latest review of human rights in the Middle East...

Egyptian Oil Minister Tariq Al-Mulla said on Tuesday that he has reached an agreement with Saudi state-run oil company Aramco to extend the supply of crude to Egyptian refineries...

The United Nations regained access to a grains facility near Yemen’s Hudaydah port on Tuesday, potentially allowing an increase in food aid to millions at risk of starvation after...

The British government has confirmed that it will raise the thorny issue of the brutal murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during Jeremy Hunt’s visit to Riyadh this week....

Relations between the Palestinians and Saudi Arabia appear to be warming up after a period of remoteness. The Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, met with King Salman, and Fatah...

A mysterious offshore buyer who used a Cayman Islands company to mask his identity as the major shareholder of one of Britain’s most well-known newspaper has been identified as...

Princess Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud

The Houthis yesterday postponed their partial withdrawal from the strategic port town of Hudaydah to today, the Anadolu Agency reported. The agency quoted an unnamed source as saying that...

Around 1.2 million Yemeni children live in conflict zones in war-battered Yemen, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said today. The children “continue to live in 31 active conflict zones...