As China attempts to assert its geopolitical clout with Riyadh, US senators push for addressing human rights concerns in Saudi Arabia A bipartisan pair of US senators introduced a resolution yesterday (Wednesday, 15 March) that [ More … ]
China’s prestigious accomplishment vaults it into a new league diplomatically and outshines anything the US has been able to achieve in the region since Biden came to office, states NYT. “The agreement negotiated in Beijing [ More … ]
The surprise deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore diplomatic ties offers much for the United States to be intrigued about, an analysis by Reuters states, in comment on restoration of Saudi-Iranian relations. This [ More … ]
Sarah Leah Whitson, the executive director of the Khashoggi-founded group DAWN, has called on Congress to pass legislation to prohibit all former senior U.S. officials from working for, or financially benefiting from, a foreign government. [ More … ]
The Saudi court documents reveal reasons for Dr. Awad Al-Qarni’s arrest, even though Saudi rulers are major investors in social media platforms The prominent law professor, Dr. Awad Al-Qarni, has been handed a death sentence [ More … ]
A senior Israeli official has criticized the extremist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, for storming Al-Aqsa Mosque on Tuesday morning. The senior Israeli official said Itamar Ben-Gvir’s storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque had “destroyed the [ More … ]
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met with his Saudi counterpart at a regional conference in Jordan on Wednesday This meeting is the first highest-level public contact between the two countries since they severed the diplomatic [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia is in discussions with Turkiye to deposit $5 billion in the Turkish Central Bank, Reuters reported a spokesman of the Ministry of Finance in Riyadh as saying on Tuesday. “We are in final [ More … ]
Authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) have arrested and forcibly disappeared the photographer and international book fairs director of Dar Kotopia, an Egyptian publishing house, Ahmed Diouf. The We Record rights organization stated [ More … ]
A Saudi court issues prison sentences from ten to eighteen years to ten Nubian Egyptians who were arrested after holding a community event in 2019 Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court on 10 October handed prison [ More … ]
The Democratic chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee called on Monday for a freeze on cooperation with Saudi Arabia, including most arms sales, accusing the kingdom of helping underwrite the Russian war on [ More … ]
A Saudi court has given a woman 45 years in prison for social media posts, a watchdog said, in latest example of crackdown on women activists, following a visit by US President Joe Biden to [ More … ]
The Egyptian Cabinet had approved the sale of the Egyptian Gas Holding Company (GASCO) stake in the Misr Fertilizer Production Company (MOPCO), for the benefit of the Saudi Investment Fund, reported Russia Today, citing Egyptian [ More … ]
Emirates says arrest of Asim Ghafoor, an American citizen, was coordinated with the US to ‘combat transnational crimes’. The United Arab Emirates has sentenced an American citizen and the former lawyer of Jamal Khashoggi — [ More … ]
Families of American detainees in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Egypt have called on US President Joe Biden to help with their release during his scheduled tour of the Middle East this month. The [ More … ]
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