A delegation of prominent Evangelical leaders met with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in the Red Sea port of Jeddah on Tuesday, the eve of the anniversary of September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
Saudi energy giant Aramco is ready for a two-stage IPO but the timing is up to the government, its chief executive said Tuesday, flagging a possible foreign listing as part of the offering.
Long-promised new laws allowing Saudi women over 21 to travel without permission from a male guardian came into effect Tuesday.
A massive rally in the Yemeni city of Aden on Thursday expressed support for the separatists who took over the vital southern port city, the seat of Yemen’s internationally-recognized government ever since it was driven from the capital city of Sanaa by Iran-backed Houthi insurgents in 2014.
At least 80 Muslims who participated in the annual hajj pilgrimage in Islam’s holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia over the weekend died.
Iranians who gathered in Islam’s holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia over the weekend for the annual hajj pilgrimage called for Israel’s destruction and chanted “Death to America.”
The annual hajj pilgrimage that brings some two million Muslims to the religion’s holiest site in Mecca has once again become the subject of political controversy as Muslims opposed to the government of Saudi Arabia are urging others to boycott the event.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) is pursuing a “strategic plan” to “weaken” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the wake of the allegedly Sunni kingdom-sponsored assassination of Islamist journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Iran’s state-run media claimed this week.
Former Vice President Joe Biden attacked the late-Sen. John McCain for not supporting “coal” adequately enough while campaigning in West Virginia during the 2008 presidential election.
Iran in recent days captured the third foreign tanker in the Persian Gulf in less than a month amid intensifying tensions with the United States, Iranian state media reported over the weekend.
According to a recent report, Facebook has dismantled a covert influence campaign on its network operated by the government of Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia passed a new law allowing women over the age of 21 to travel abroad without a male guardian’s permission, the Sunni kingdom announced this week.
President Donald Trump criticized Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Thursday for claiming that he was supporting Al Qaeda.
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) has repeatedly accused President Donald Trump of backing al-Qaeda, including during Wednesday’s Democrat debate.
NBC News cited anonymous sources Wednesday claiming U.S. intelligence officials believe Osama bin Laden’s son and possible successor as leader of al-Qaeda, Hamza bin Laden, is dead.
Iran on Monday reportedly indicated it is open to talks with its longtime regional rival Saudi Arabia following reports that U.S. sanctions on its oil industry have severely crippled its economy.
President Donald Trump quietly vetoed Wednesday three resolutions passed by Congress to end arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf nations.
TEL AVIV – A well-known Saudi blogger who is in Israel at the behest of its Foreign Ministry was attacked, cursed and spat on by Palestinians during a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Nicki Minaj is pulling out of a concert in Saudi Arabia because she says she wants to show support for women’s rights, gay rights and freedom of expression.
The king of Saudi Arabia’s daughter is a “caring, humble” person who is the victim of false allegations that she ordered a bodyguard to beat up a workman in her luxury flat in Paris, the princess’ lawyer said.
Human rights activists are slamming rapper Nicki Minaj for promoting LBGTQ rights one month and then headlining a concert held in the anti-gay Kingdom of Saudi Arabia the next.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia said Wednesday that hip-hop star Nicki Minaj will perform in the ultraconservative kingdom as it sheds decades of restrictions on entertainment.
A new government report shows the United States crude oil output as reaching new heights in the month of April. The report said production grew from 2.1 percent in April to 12.16 million barrels a day. Shale production in areas
Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen have blocked an estimated 8,000-ton food shipment slated to feed about 100,000 families in the war-torn nation where millions are teetering on the brink of starvation, the World Food Program (WFP) revealed this week.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Saudi Arabia on Monday for meetings with King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Pompeo is currently traveling through the Middle East and Asia to shore up the coalition against Iran after Iran’s attack on a U.S. drone last week.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the Middle East this week to build a “global coalition” against Iran amid intensified tensions between Washington and Tehran.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Saudi Arabia early Monday morning for talks with the close ally amid mounting tensions with Iran.
TEL AVIV – In a rare interview with a Hebrew-language newspaper, a senior Saudi diplomat said it was time the Arab world realized that the “age of war with Israel” is over.
Iranian-backed Houthis in hunger-stricken Yemen recruited an estimated 50,000 children in the past three months, including orphans and girls, to fight in the country’s bloody conflict, the information minister for the country’s internationally-recognized government reportedly declared this week.
The Republican-led Senate voted Thursday to block the Trump administration’s proposed $8.1 billion arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other allied countries.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said Israel maintains covert ties with “most Arab countries.”
Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority (GEA) preemptively shut down what was expected to be the opening of the first-ever “halal” pop-up nightclub in the conservative Muslim country, arguing that it had never given the green light for the event in the coastal city of Jeddah.
TEL AVIV – Israeli intelligence has joined the U.S.’s accusations that Iran carried out Thursday’s attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, an Israeli TV report claimed over the weekend, citing senior intelligence officials.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is in no doubt about the origin of a second attack on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. He blamed arch-rival Iran on Sunday and vowed his kingdom “won’t hesitate to deal with any threat” to its interests.
The internationally recognized Yemeni military reportedly revealed America’s most advanced defense system in the hands of Saudi Arabia failed to intercept a cruise missile fired by Iran-aligned Shiite Houthi rebels at a civilian airport in the Sunni kingdom this week.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Yemen’s Iran-allied rebels said they launched a cruise missile Wednesday at a Saudi airport, an attack the kingdom said hit the airport’s arrivals hall and wounded 26 people, just hours before Japan’s prime minister was expected in Iran for a historic visit aimed at defusing tensions in the Persian Gulf.
What the media call Trump’s “belligerent isolationism” is actually a restoration of traditional American leadership in the world through the pursuit of American interests and the defense of American allies.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) on Tuesday criticized the Trump administration for approving two transfers of nuclear power information to Saudi Arabia after the October murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
TEL AVIV – Sunni Arab states are moving faster than the Palestinians toward normalizing ties with Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said.
Iranian-backed Shiite Houthis in Yemen recently launched a fundraising campaign for Hezbollah after an unprecedented wave of U.S. sanctions reportedly limited Tehran’s ability to continue funding it, the Long War Journal (LWJ) reported this week.
