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A statement from Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor on Tuesday indicated that most of the suspects swept up in the recent anti-corruption crackdown will be released after reaching settlements with the government, although a sizable number remain in detention, and some of those will be prosecuted for their offenses.

President Donald Trump held separate phone calls with several Middle Eastern leaders on Tuesday during which he reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and potential decisions regarding Jerusalem.

The long and strange story of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s resignation appears to have ended on Tuesday with news that Hariri reached a deal with opposition leaders and formally rescinded his resignation, making him once again the Prime Minister of Lebanon.

The son of ex-Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh has called for retaliation against the Iran-linked Houthi rebels who killed the former leader, accusing him of “treachery” for offering to “turn a new page” with the Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting the Shiite insurgents in Yemen.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Tuesday that he had withdrawn his resignation, a month after his shock announcement that he was quitting sparked a political crisis.

Saudi Arabia is working directly with Israel and other Sunni Arab nations to fight terror, US CIA Director Mike Pompeo said.

Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former president of Yemen who became an ally of the Houthi insurgency, has been killed in an attack near the capital city of Sanaa.

TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that Middle Eastern countries should solve their problems together without relying on external powers.

ROME, Italy — Saudi Arabia and Iran have exported their bitter regional tussle to Rome, accusing each other of villainous meddling in the Middle East during diplomacy talks in the Italian capital.

TEL AVIV – The editor-in-chief of a Saudi daily this week slammed Gaza-based terror group Hamas for exploiting the Palestinian cause to benefit Iran in its quest to “take over the Arab world.”

The ballistic missiles that Yemen’s Houthi Shi’ite rebels fired at Saudi Arabia were designed and built in Iran, according to a United Nations (U.N.) report.

TEL AVIV – Moderate Arab states including Egypt and Saudi Arabia are pushing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to resume negotiations with Israel as part of a wider strategy to confront the region’s growing threat from Iran, a senior Egyptian official told the daily Israel Hayom on Monday.

Many Al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked jihadists are living in luxury, enjoying the comforts of an indoor swimming pool, sun-splashed patios, large-screen televisions, king size beds, conjugal visits, and lavish gym facilities, courtesy of Saudi Arabia’s deradicalization center.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman recently compared the religious leadership of Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei to Hitler in an interview with the New York Times.

Saudi Arabia’s apparent resolve to release up to 13 Yemenis once detained in the American military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba has reportedly concerned President Donald Trump’s National Security Council (NSC).

Saudi Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, son of the late King Abdullah and the highest-ranking royal to be imprisoned during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s corruption crackdown, was released on Tuesday after three weeks of detention.

Ibrahim Karagül, the editor-in-chief of the stridently pro-government Turkish newspaper Yeni Şafak, accused the crown prince of UAE of being “an Israeli intelligence member” in a column this week, in which he warned the United States and Israel were attempting to destroy the Muslim world.

The new Saudi Crown Prince is startling the world with his seeming willingness to reform his country, moderate Islam, cease funding of terror, and send subtle yet public signals to the Jewish community.

TEL AVIV — Saudi and Arab world pundits opposed to the warming of ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia have taken to social media to call for a policy against normalization, with some even claiming that normalization with Israel is forbidden according to sharia.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia promised on Sunday that the military coalition headed by his country will renew its efforts to “pursue terrorism until it is eradicated completely” following Friday’s monstrous attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt.

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a Fox News contributor and author of Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the horrific terrorist attack on a mosque in Egypt, with over 300 fatalities.

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A Tennessee imam delivered a conspiracy theory-laden sermon on Friday in which he warned that “Zionists” are planning to destroy Islam’s most revered site.

BEIRUT – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said on Saturday that he would not accept Iran-backed Hezbollah’s positions that “affect our Arab brothers or target the security and stability of their countries”, a statement from his press office said.

RIYADH – Saudi Arabia gathered officials from 40 Muslim countries on Sunday in the first meeting of an Islamic counter-terrorism alliance, a move Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman declared a “clear signal” to extremism.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the “new Hitler of the Middle East” to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in an interview published Thursday.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are ready to help rebuild Syria and bring about a lasting “ceasefire” there, chief commander Mohammad Ali Jafari said, adding that disarming Lebanon’s Hezbollah is out of the question, state TV reported on Thursday.

Last month in Saudi Arabia, 11 princes along with a number of current and former government officials were arrested by a newly announced anti-corruption committee headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

WASHINGTON, DC – Former Sen. Joseph Lieberman and retired General Charles Wall laid out their visions for the “the way forward” regarding the United States’ policy on Iran during a panel discussion at the National Press Club on Tuesday.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, back in Beirut after a mysterious odyssey that saw him announce his resignation in Saudi Arabia, told cheering supporters on Wednesday that he was staying.

Saudi state news agency SPA reported that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke on the phone Monday with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the leader behind Saudi Arabia’s wide-reaching and controversial corruption crackdown.

In the 1975 movie “Jaws,” the threat posed by a Great White shark to swimmers was only neutralized after aggressive action to confront it was taken.

Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri made his long-awaited return to Lebanon on Wednesday, but instead of formally tendering his resignation and explaining his decision to the public as expected, he retracted his resignation and announced he would continue serving as prime minister.

TEL AVIV — A Saudi academic stirred controversy recently with his call to allow academic lecturers to directly teach students without partitions.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister dismissed the Sunni kingdom’s dispute with Qatar as insignificant this week, saying it has bigger problems to address as the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) continues to implement dramatic reforms across the country.

Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri visited Paris over the weekend, as planned, but then announced he would stop in Cairo before returning to Lebanon, at last, to formally tender his resignation.