For many Muslims, Hajj is the opportunity of a lifetime Saudi controls access to the Muslim holy places. Access to #Hajj should be open to all Muslims and non-politicized. #Saudi started blockade against neighbouring #Qatar [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia offered Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas $10 billion to accept the US’ so called ‘deal of the century’, Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper reported yesterday. Discussing details of a meeting between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed [ More … ]
Another six months cannot pass without accountability for this abhorrent crime, says The Washington Post Six months after the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, U.S. President Donald Trump has still done nothing to hold [ More … ]
What do Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed say about U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Golan belongs to Israel” outburst? Are they going to [ 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 … ]
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia wants the death penalty for my father, and its judiciary is being pushed far from any semblance of the rule of law and due process, Abdullah Alaoudh* says in an [ More … ]
A United Nations-led inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said on Thursday that evidence pointed to a brutal crime “planned and perpetrated” by Saudi officials. Khashoggi’s killing by a team of Saudi [ More … ]
Development comes after UN envoy met Houthis before heading for Saudi Arabia to ensure implementation of a recent deal. A fresh round of talks between Yemen’s warring factions may take place soon in Jordan, according [ More … ]
US senators backed measure accusing MBS of ordering Khashoggi’s murder, urged the end to support for Saudi-led Yemen war. Saudi Arabia has denounced as “blatant interference” a resolution by the US Senate accusing the kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin [ 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 … ]
By: Yasin Aktay* The murder of Jamal Khashoggi that was planned in advance and conducted in an organized manner ended with the opposite of the desired outcome because of “a small misfortune” which was not plotted [ More … ]
Kingdom sacks intelligence official, arrests 18 Saudis saying the missing journalist was killed in a ‘fist fight’. Saudi Arabia admitted journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul, saying he died [ More … ]
American intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is culpable in the killing of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an appraisal that poses challenges to a White House [ More … ]
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