Saudi Arabia is reportedly searching for a resolution to the three-year long Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC] crisis as a way to enhance relations with the incoming Biden presidency, according to a report published in the Financial Times. [ More … ]
UK foreign Secretary says Houthis must ‘cease their aggression’ following attack which triggered explosion but left no injuries An attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a Saudi Aramco oil facility in the Red Sea city [ More … ]
All the world leaders have seen in the G20 summit which is currently held in Saudi Arabia (virtually due to COVID 19 pandemic situation), however, There was mounting pressure on world leaders to boycott this [ More … ]
The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically hit global demand for oil this year, leaving the company’s debt levels spiralling Saudi Aramco is to sell billions of dollars in international bonds in a bid to bolster its [ More … ]
Accounts purported to belong to members of Qatar’s royal family and fabricated statements from Amnesty and Human Rights Watch Twitter says it has deleted more than 30 accounts that stoked rumors of a coup in [ More … ]
Essam Al-Zamil, who once criticized plans to sell Saudi Arabia’s state-owned Aramco oil company, was reportedly sentenced to 15 years in prison. A leading human rights platform has raised the alarm over the fate of [ More … ]
Five of those sentenced were given 20 years in prison for their involvement in the murder of Saudi journalist A Saudi court on Monday overturned five death sentences previously issued against the killers of journalist Jamal [ More … ]
Safety Concerns for Ex-Crown Prince, rights activists, and Sheikh Salman Al-Awda in Saudi prisons Human Rights Watch has expressed fears over the safety of former Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef and other prominent detainees [ More … ]
An airliner carrying Israeli and US delegations to the UAE on Monday flew over Saudi Arabia as the first publicly acknowledged entry of an Israeli plane into Saudi air space, reported Reuters. Israel’s flag carrier El [ More … ]
Access of internal data by Twitter employees in 2015 presaged the disappearance of Saudi dissidents An internal breach at Twitter Inc. a half decade ago yielded data that was later used by Saudi Arabia to [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia has ended a loan and oil supply to Pakistan due to the latter’s criticism that the Saudi-led Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is not doing enough to pressure India on the Kashmir issue. [ More … ]
Saad al-Jabri, a former veteran figure in the Saudi government, said to be target of assassination plot Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, has been accused of sending a hit squad to [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia has reportedly been putting pressure on local businesses not to trade with Turkey and its industries in a bid to boost an unofficial boycott. The detention of trucks carrying produce from Turkey has [ More … ]
A well-known Saudi activist and whistle-blower known online as “Mujtahid” has exposed the existence of a secret prison run by Riyadh in Yemen’s largest province, Hadhramout. Mujtahid made his claim on Twitter yesterday, where he [ More … ]
Stratfor: Austerity will force Saudi Arabia to revise its military priorities Stratfor: Austerity will force Saudi Arabia to revise its military priorities [ More … ]
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