Inside Assad's Syria
For the past month, Russian bombs over Syria have further complicated the civil war, a conflict that has been tearing the country apart for...
Victory proves elusive in Saudi king's Yemen war
In Yemen's humid southern port of Aden, Saudi Arabian soldiers in armoured cars patrol streets where jihadists lurk. In Marib, east of the capital...
Saudi Arabia: 93 people with Isis links arrested in recent months
Authorities say they have foiled Islamic State plans to carry out terrorist attacks including a strike on the US embassy in the capital
Riyadh,...
In taking economic war to Islamic State, U.S. developing new tools
Since last month, U.S. warplanes have struck Islamic State's oil infrastructure in Syria in a stepped-up campaign of economic warfare that the United States...
Saudi-Iranian proxy war over Syria spreads to Davos
Senior Saudi and Iranian figures clashed behind closed doors at a private meeting convened by the World Economic Forum in Davos this week to...
Saudi government shake-up rolls, reshuffle of economic posts
Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Saturday replaced his veteran oil minister and restructured some big ministries in a major reshuffle apparently intended to support...
Trump tests negative for virus
Following concerns over President Donald Trump’s exposure to Coronavirus, he has tested negative, his physician said.
Trump agreed to the test after coming in contact...
Former president Mubarak buried in a military funeral
Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak will be buried on Wednesday in a military funeral in Cairo.
He died on Tuesday in intensive care weeks after...
Civil Society in Saudi Arabia: The Power and Challenges of Association
Saudi Arabia has considerable pent-up and frustrated social energy, both among young people and their parents’ generation. Civil society can be an asset for...
Rupture with Iran may not have been Saudi aim
The diplomatic rupture with Iran triggered by the execution of a Shi'ite cleric was probably a side effect of a decision taken by Saudi...
