The Houthi rebels have attacked Najran Airport in Saudi Arabia, which contains a military base, with a bomb-laden drone. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Tuesday that they had launched a bomb-laden drone into Saudi Arabia, [ More … ]
Aerial attacks on oil pipeline deep inside Saudi Arabia suggest significant leap in Houthi drone capabilities. Drone attacks on a Saudi oil pipeline west of Riyadh on Tuesday have revealed an apparent significant leap in [ More … ]
U.S. leader reversed policy to support Gen. Haftar against the U.N.-backed government after urging by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi The administration of US President Donald Trump, under the [ More … ]
The fight to stop Muslim Brotherhood (MB) ban is not about whether political Islam is a good or bad thing. It’s about protecting democracy at home and abroad He is not really embarrassed by what [ More … ]
The strong Egyptian-Israeli relations and the recent rapprochement between Israel and the Gulf, with the help of the U.S., have led the Trump administration to consider labeling the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group In fact, [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia offered Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas $10 billion to accept the US’ so called ‘deal of the century’, Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper reported yesterday. Discussing details of a meeting between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed [ More … ]
Despite promising to pursue a peace settlement, Saudi Arabia has continued its destructive bombing campaign in Yemen. At home, Saudi authorities last week executed 37 people in one day on ambiguous charges. Since March 26, [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia has recently executed 37 people after they were sentenced to death based on ambiguous charges. Unfortunately, the real murderers who plotted and killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last [ More … ]
Turkey arrested two intelligence operatives in Istanbul on Monday who confessed to spying on Arab nationals on behalf of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of whom is suspected of having connections to the murder [ More … ]
Amid continuing pressure to transfer power to a civilian government, Sudanese protesters are rejecting support from Saudi Arabia and the UAE to the military regime. With Sudan in turmoil following the ouster of longtime President [ More … ]
Warlord also understood to have private support of Saudi Arabia and the UAE Khalifa Haftar, the Libyan warlord bombarding Tripoli in an attempt to oust the country’s UN-recognized government, has won unequivocal support from the [ More … ]
Most of those killed in the attack were children, a spokesperson for the rebel-controlled health ministry said. Air raids by a Saudi-UAE led coalition in a residential area in Yemen’s Houthi-held capital, Sanaa, have killed [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia has arrested at least eight people, including two dual U.S.-Saudi citizens, in an apparent crackdown on supporters of women activists whose trial has drawn condemnation from abroad, an associate and a rights group [ More … ]
Another six months cannot pass without accountability for this abhorrent crime, says The Washington Post Six months after the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, U.S. President Donald Trump has still done nothing to hold [ More … ]
Saud al-Qahtani, a Saudi royal adviser fired over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is not among the 11 suspects on trial at secretive hearings in Riyadh despite Saudi pledges to bring those responsible to [ More … ]
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