Saudi Arabia is in discussions with Turkiye to deposit $5 billion in the Turkish Central Bank, Reuters reported a spokesman of the Ministry of Finance in Riyadh as saying on Tuesday. “We are in final [ More … ]
Egyptian Human Rights organizations have called for immediate release of 10 Egyptian Nubians unjustly held by the Saudi Arabia authorities Days before the final verdict is issued against them on August 31, Egyptian Human Rights [ More … ]
Human rights are escalating calls on US President to press MBS for immediate release of political prisoners and stop violations against regime critics, at a time when US is reportedly seeking full “reset” of relations [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia announces ‘military operation’ in Yemen following series of drone and rocket attacks on the kingdom. Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they carried out several attacks on Friday, the largest being on an oil storage [ More … ]
Turkish president says he will visit Riyadh next month, following warming relations and the resumption of ties with the UAE Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that he plans to visit Saudi Arabia [ More … ]
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 … ]
Human rights groups have announced that Dr. Musa Al-Qarni has died in Saudi prisons, after spending 14 years of arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. ALQST, a London-based human rights organization that documents and promotes human rights [ More … ]
Special Envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg assumes his duties amid a stalled peace process and intense fighting around the city of Marib The new UN special envoy for Yemen said on Friday the country was [ More … ]
The UAE has launched a number of initiatives to lure investors in a bid to counter Saudi Arabia’s challenge. Riyadh has recently undertaken a number of decisions to overtake its Gulf neighbor as the main [ More … ]
The group was detained in March 2018 during a wave of arrests by Saudi authorities on a group of long-term Palestinian and Jordanian residents in the kingdom on alleged links with an unnamed “terrorist” group, [ More … ]
The West’s silence regarding the situation in Tunisia shows their support for autocratic regimes including those in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, who stand behind the coup, former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said in an [ More … ]
M. O. Jones, an academic, has analyzed the UAE, Saudi-launched hashtag to defame the Muslim Brotherhood in Tunisia, proving that the hashtag was fake and tendentious. Marc Owen Jones, an assistant professor at Hamad Bin [ 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 … ]
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 UAE’s drawdown from its Assab military base in Eritrea comes as the new Biden administration is re-evaluating America’s commitment to the War in Yemen. By: Andreas Krieg* However, as much as the UAE’s retreat from Yemen [ More … ]
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