There are rising concerns about the health of King Salman bin Abdul Aziz of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 85, after he has remained 482 consecutive days in his palace in the desert city of [ More … ]
Riyadh (AFP) – A personal bodyguard of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has been shot dead and seven others wounded, including security forces, during an altercation at a friend’s home, authorities said Sunday. General Abdelaziz al-Fagham, [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s controverisal Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, has once again found himself in the limelight because of all the wrong reason. His half-sister Hassa bint Salman, the daughter of King Salman, is [ More … ]
King Salman said to have been angered by recent moves by Prince Mohammed against him There are growing signs of a potentially destabilizing rift between the king of Saudi Arabia and his heir, according to [ More … ]
Moroccan-Saudi relations have never been as cool and strained as they have become in the past week, By Hassan Aourid* following a report on Western Sahara disputed broadcast on Al-Arabiya, a television channel close to decision-making circles [ More … ]
Behind the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi lies a power struggle within the Saudi royal family that helped feed the paranoia and recklessness of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Eventually, this rage in the royal [ More … ]
Washington Post and AP report US intelligence officials concluded Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, US [ More … ]
Prince Ahmad bin Abdul Aziz returns to Riyadh with UK and US security guarantees and a brief to cut the crown prince down to size Prince Ahmad bin Abdulaziz, the younger brother of King Salman, [ More … ]
Apple Watch worn by Saudi journalist may have transmitted evidence of his death, Turkish paper reports Missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have recorded his own death, a Turkish newspaper reported Saturday morning. Khashoggi turned [ More … ]
Washington Post columnist was last seen entering his country’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancee says Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist, has disappeared after visiting his country’s consulate in Istanbul on [ More … ]
By: Bill Law* Selling missiles to the Qataris is not only good business for the Russians; it also allows them to meddle in the conflicted and splintered politics of the Gulf states. Military experts refer to [ More … ]
A persistent narrative about Saudi Arabia describes the country as in perpetual struggle between the forces of modernity and the forces of traditionalism. This paper contributes to the on-going evaluation of this paradigm and its [ More … ]
Call for coup in Saudi Arabia. Prince Khaled: I have received a large number of emails from within the police and army in support of my call A dissident Saudi prince has called on his uncles [ More … ]
Army chief of staff, ministers and top commanders of ground and air defence forces replaced, in series of royal decrees. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has fired his top military commanders and reshuffled his cabinet in [ More … ]
Saudi Arabian forces have replaced Egyptian troops on Tiran Island, marking the first step in the handover over of two Red Sea islands ceded to the Persian Gulf kingdom in a 2016 border agreement, according [ More … ]
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