The US House voted on Wednesday to block $8.1 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other allies, a rebuke of Donald Trump. The US House voted on Wednesday to block $8.1 billion in [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s controverisal Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, has once again found himself in the limelight because of all the wrong reason. His half-sister Hassa bint Salman, the daughter of King Salman, is [ More … ]
French weapons are being used by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in Yemen, according to a classified note revealed by French media on Monday, April 15 which contradicts the claims of France’s government. [ More … ]
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be investigated over the killing of journalist Khashoggi, UN expert concludes. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be investigated over the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a UN [ More … ]
Tensions in the Gulf between the US, Saudi Arabia and Iran have been exacerbated this week with the deployment of Houthi strikes on the neighboring kingdom. Yemen’s Houthis launched two attacks on a Saudi airport [ More … ]
While Palestinians have rejected upcoming summit in Bahrain, UAE insists it ‘aims to lift the Palestinian people out of misery’ The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia have welcomed an upcoming economic summit in [ More … ]
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 … ]
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