Saudi Arabia

A Hebrew media source claims that Israel's Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, is planning to launch an international campaign against Saudi Arabia. The leader of the extreme right-wing Yisrael Beitenu...

Saudi Arabia has welcomed the Palestinian reconciliation agreement, signed between Fatah and Hamas in Cairo. In a statement, the Riyadh government described the agreement to form a transitional government...

The Israeli authorities have stopped a number of Palestinians from travelling to Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj pilgrimage. Sources said that they were turned back because they refused...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The UN Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, has said that it will be able to provide thousands with work opportunities over a three year period as a...

Media reports claim that Israel and Jordan are against the project to build a bridge between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Israel is taking the issue so seriously that it...

A Kuwaiti political party has denounced the detention campaigns being carried out by governments belonging to the Gulf Cooperation Council. Al-Omah Party said that "reformers, scholars, politicians, writers and...

Renowned Saudi Islamic preacher Sheikh Salman Al-Awdeh said that he "does not believe in 'devilling' the Muslim Brotherhood" even though he does not promote their ideology, explaining that, "his...

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that it is refusing to accept a UN Security Council seat because the Council has failed to resolve the Palestinian issue, the...

A recent report by Wealth X Foundation and UBS Bank has revealed that the number of billionaires in the Middle East now stands at 157, owning a net wealth...

VIDEOS Saudi Arabia's official news agency has reported clashes between police and expatriate workers in the capital city of Riyadh, leaving dozens injured. According to neighbourhood witnesses, the anti-riot...

The President of the Chamber of Commerce in Jeddah, Saleh Kamel, has announced that the Sudanese government is going to establish a free zone in which Saudi Arabia will...

The US Department of Defence has announced its intention to sell arms to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates valued at $11 billion. Officials at the Pentagon said...

A sword believed to have been symbolic in the creation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932 was sold in France for 955,400 euros (almost $1.3 million) at...

Observers of the systematic Israeli abuses in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs), especially the demolition of houses and the resultant forced expulsion of the Palestinian population, may be surprised...

The international response to the events in Egypt has been uncertain and hesitant. Governments and citizens alike seem to have been caught off-guard by the bloodshed that followed the...

Egypt's decision to reopen the Rafah border crossing with Gaza was anticipated; nevertheless its timing had significant political import. It was not just a positive undertaking on the border,...

The United States must support the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations this month or risk losing the little credibility it has in the Arab world. If...

Anyone following the Gulf media, particularly in Saudi Arabia, will notice a vicious campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic movements in general, and Imams whose influence has grown thanks...

By Mahmoud al-Mubarak The British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, began his most recent visit to Israel with the great confidence and cold boldness that matches the history of his...

By Abdul Bari Atwan When, in an article published by the New York Times yesterday, the American journalist Thomas Friedman calls on the reigning Saudi monarch, King Abdullah bin...

However well intentioned, the gathering of a number of Islamic scholars and preachers at a conference in Cairo which addressed the conflict in Syria between 13-15 June ended up...

Saudi Arabia is home to Makkah and Medina, the two holiest sites in Islam. Every year, hundreds of thousands of Muslims complete the Hajj pilgrimage to Makkah; one of...