In a three-episode exclusive interview with Al-Arabiya news channel, His Excellency Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud prefaced that his remarks were addressed, first and foremost, to his fellow Saudi Arabian citizens. In fact, he had a (...)
Official sources in the Gulf have downplayed recent media reports suggesting that the Qatar crisis could be resolved soon.
The optimism about a solution to the crisis that led Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt to sever their relations with (...)
Saudi Arabia's biggest supermarket chains this week joined a growing boycott of Turkish imports proposed by business leaders and Saudis on social media, as political tensions spilled into trade between the two regional powers.
Turkey and Saudi (...)
China and Russia were elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, but support for Beijing dropped by more than 20 percent compared with a 2016 vote and Saudi Arabia failed in its bid to win a seat on the Geneva-based body.
The (...)
EgyptAir resumed on Friday flights between Borg El-Arab International Airport in the northern goveronorate of Alexandria and Dubai International Airport.
Egypt's flagship carrier said it will operate three weekly flights between the two (...)
Oman has sent an ambassador to Syria, becoming the first Gulf Arab state to do so after they downgraded or shut missions in Damascus in 2012 over attacks by the government there on protests at the start of what turned into a war.
Oman is one of the (...)
The United Nations hailed the agreement in Glion, Switzerland, on Sunday for a prisoner exchange between the warring factions in Yemen as a significant breakthrough, saying that it wanted to build on this positive development to bring about a (...)
There are times when the US and the West in general throw up their hands over the Middle East, by which they mean, when we take a closer look, the “Arab world”. Such fits of despair have their origins in the proscriptions of the historian Bernard (...)
The G20 leaders summit will be held virtually on Nov. 21-22, Saudi Arabia said on Monday, as the COVID-19 pandemic thwarted Riyadh's hopes of hosting the gathering in the kingdom to boost its international standing.
Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil (...)
For over 18 years, Arab nations have repeated their proposal to end decades of conflict at the heart of Middle East problems, advocating peace with Israel hinged upon its withdrawal to pre-1967 borders.
Similar terms in the “Arab Peace Initiative” (...)
In a grand ceremony on the south lawn of the White House in Washington DC, US President Donald Trump presided over the signing of peace deals between Israel and two Gulf countries, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, this week.
Some Arab (...)
On Tuesday evening, Middle East Time, US President Donald Trump stood next to Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu at the White House ahead of the signing of the normalisation agreement between Israel and the UAE and announced that at least (...)
Egyptian pop stars Amr Diab, Mohamed Hamaki, Angham and Tamer Ashour are scheduled to perform in Saudi Arabia next week as part of the kingdom's ongoing celebrations to mark its 90th national day.
The series of events taking place amid easing (...)
Saudi Arabian-led coalition fighter jets early on Sunday attacked barracks and military sites of the armed Houthi movement in Yemen's capital Sanaa, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya reported.
The coalition also destroyed four Houthi drones at Al-Delmi air (...)
The Gulf state of Bahrain is to normalise relations with Israel, the diplomatic correspondent for Israel's public broadcaster Kan said on Friday, without citing sources.
Another Israeli reporter, Raphael Ahren of the Times of Israel, said U.S. (...)
Iran has been struggling to increase its oil and gas output recently, especially of natural gas from the South Pars Field, a joint field with Qatar, despite the fact that US sanctions make it almost impossible for Tehran to sell its output.
Though (...)
Yemen has been mired in war for more than five years. In a country where there appears to be no peace at the end of the tunnel, the Yemeni people are also suffering, with the majority of the population now depending on aid.
This August marks the (...)
Military operations heavily intensified between government forces and military units of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in war-ravaged Yemen on Wednesday, causing an unknown number of deaths among the two warring rivals.
The fighting (...)
Saudi Arabia's price for normalising relations with Israel is the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, a senior member of the Saudi royal family reaffirmed on Friday.
Prince Turki al-Faisal was apparently (...)
Saudi Arabia's Jazan civil defence said on Monday that a military projectile was fired by Yemen's Houthi group at a border village, causing no casualties or injuries, Saudi state TV said on twitter.
Cross-border attacks by Iran-aligned Houthi forces (...)
The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi movement in Yemen said on Thursday it intercepted and downed an armed drone and two ballistic missiles launched towards a southern part of Saudi Arabia, in a statement carried by Saudi state news (...)
On Gouraud Street in the gentrified Jemmayzeh neighbourhood of Beirut, now entirely reduced to rubble, a distraught Lebanese woman appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron during his visit to the city last week.
“I want to go back to my home,” (...)
Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi will leave Saudi Arabia and head to the United States for medical treatment early on Wednesday, two sources close to the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
The head of the country's internationally-recognised (...)
It will take Beirut quite a few more weeks to come to terms with the explosions that hit the Mediterranean city over a week ago. The bodies of the dead, the pain of the wounded, and the agony of those who do not know the fate of their loved ones or (...)
Shortly after a massive explosion caused by 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored unsafely in a Beirut port warehouse last week, the Iraqi authorities began looking for hazardous materials stored at the country's ports.
An official statement said (...)
