Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger and activist who has been imprisoned and flogged publicly for criticising Saudi Arabia’s religious establishment, has been awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the European Union’s top human [ More … ]
A Saudi prince and four other people have been detained in Lebanon in the largest drug seizure in the history of the airport in Beirut airport, says security sources. Prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin [ More … ]
In a bid to seek a political resolution to the four-year conflict, the United States and Saudi Arabia agreed to increase support to Syria’s moderate opposition, the U.S. State Department said after Secretary of State John Kerry met [ More … ]
Several Yemeni fishermen were killed on Saturday morning in Saudi-led strikes. The initial reports from witnesses say that at least 40 people were killed in the attacks that hit two Yemeni islands on the Red Sea. Saudi [ More … ]
A military airstrike in northwest Syria has killed the leader of an al-Qaeda cell that American officials say has been plotting attacks against the United States and Europe, announced the Pentagon on Sunday. The leader, [ More … ]
The US approved conditional sanctions waivers for Iran on Sunday, though it cautioned they would not take effect until Tehran had curbed its nuclear programme as required under the nuclear deal reached in Vienna in [ More … ]
Iran tested a new guided long-range ballistic missile on Sunday, hours before Parliament approved the generalities of the nuclear agreement reached in July between Iran and world powers, reports the state news agency IRNA. The [ More … ]
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Saudi Arabia’s defence minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Salman, on Sunday, in Moscow’s most important attempt so far to reach out to enemies of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, since Russia joined [ More … ]
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