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 … ]
Saudi Arabia is seeking to buy armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a press briefing yesterday. Erdogan made the remarks after voicing his displeasure at Riyadh’s decision to carry [ More … ]
The Saudi-led military coalition battling Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Sunday it conducted air strikes on Houthi military targets in Sanaa and other regions after the group launched armed drones towards Saudi Arabia, reported [ More … ]
President Joe Biden is expected to call Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud on Wednesday, ahead of the scheduled release of a US intelligence report detailing the disappearance and murder of prominent journalist Jamal [ More … ]
After more than 1,000 days in detention where she endured torture and hunger strikes, Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul released Wednesday 10th of February, 2021. A Saudi court sentenced Hathloul to close to six [ More … ]
US secretary of state decries killing of Jamal Khashoggi as ‘abhorrent’, and says administration is reviewing blacklisting of Yemen’s Houthis US Secretary of State Antony Blinken decried the “abhorrent” murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and suggested [ More … ]
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