Human rights groups have announced that Dr. Musa Al-Qarni has died in Saudi prisons, after spending 14 years of arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. ALQST, a London-based human rights organization that documents and promotes human rights [ More … ]
The UAE has launched a number of initiatives to lure investors in a bid to counter Saudi Arabia’s challenge. Riyadh has recently undertaken a number of decisions to overtake its Gulf neighbor as the main [ More … ]
State-owned Saudi media companies based in Dubai will start moving staff this month to Riyadh, as Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman pushes ahead with his plans to turn the kingdom into a regional business center. [ More … ]
The group was detained in March 2018 during a wave of arrests by Saudi authorities on a group of long-term Palestinian and Jordanian residents in the kingdom on alleged links with an unnamed “terrorist” group, [ More … ]
M. O. Jones, an academic, has analyzed the UAE, Saudi-launched hashtag to defame the Muslim Brotherhood in Tunisia, proving that the hashtag was fake and tendentious. Marc Owen Jones, an assistant professor at Hamad Bin [ More … ]
The Saudi Coast Guard has reportedly turned away three Egyptian tourist boats near the two Red Sea islands ceded in controversial deal, Tiran and Sanafir. The incident occurred on Tuesday according to Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar. [ More … ]
Italian authorities previously blocked arms exports to the Gulf states over fears they would be used to kill civilians in YemenItaly lifted a ban on arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates [ More … ]
Saudi embassy uses a network of ‘fixers’ and lawyers to help citizens accused of crimes leave the US, according to a Washington Post investigation. The Saudi embassy in Washington has been involved in helping Saudi [ More … ]
Early on the morning of Oct. 2, 2018, a Gulfstream jet carrying a team of Saudi assassins on its way to Istanbul made a quick stopover in Cairo, according to Conspiracyland. The purpose: to pick [ More … ]
Spokesperson of the Saudi-led coalition denies claims that the coalition struck a Houthi arms depot in Sanaa The Saudi-led coalition said on Thursday that it had stopped all attacks against the Houthis in Yemen as [ More … ]
Iran has welcomed a “change of tone” from Saudi Arabia, as both countries seem to be open to taking steps to calm tensions and improve cooperation. After six years of asymmetric warfare, proxy battles, and [ More … ]
To spite the Turkish government, Al Arabiya Network, funded by the UAE and Saudi Arabia, has chosen to promote an anti-Turkey narrative on the 1915 events related to the Armenian issue. While Armenian Orthodox Patriarch [ More … ]
It is crucial that Washington and the international community work together to find a political solution in Yemen that appeases local actors while also restraining Saudi and Emirati influence in the country Six years after [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince says oil firm Aramco and petrochemical firm SABIC will lead investments of five trillion riyals ($1.3 trillion) by the country’s private sector by 2030 under an economic diversification programme. The move, [ More … ]
United Nations officials twice said Riyadh would have Agnes Callamard ‘taken care of’ following probe into journalist’s assassination, a Middle East Monitor report says A senior Saudi official allegedly issued death threats against outgoing United Nations [ More … ]
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