• Saudi Arabia criticized over ‘guardianship’ laws

    Saudi Arabia criticized over ‘guardianship’ laws

    Jan 10, 2019 03:08

    A Saudi teen's live-tweeted asylum plea has cast a renewed spotlight on women's rights just months after women won the right to drive, and sparked rare criticism of restrictive "guardianship" laws -- from men.

  • Top Syrian official visits Saudi Arabia

    Top Syrian official visits Saudi Arabia

    Jan 09, 2019 14:26

    Syria’s National Security chief Major General Ali Mamlouk has reportedly paid a visit to Saudi Arabia, amid promising signs that the incumbent Damascus government led by President Bashar al-Assad is being admitted back into the Arab world after nearly eight years of foreign-sponsored militancy.

  • UN urges Australia to take in fleeing Saudi girl as refugee

    UN urges Australia to take in fleeing Saudi girl as refugee

    Jan 09, 2019 12:13

    The United Nations refugee agency says it considers a Saudi woman feeling her family and seeking asylum in Australia to be a legitimate refugee, urging Canberra to give her a humanitarian visa.

  • UN urges Australia to take in fleeing Saudi girl as refugee

    UN urges Australia to take in fleeing Saudi girl as refugee

    Jan 09, 2019 06:04

    The United Nations refugee agency says it considers a Saudi woman fleeing her family and seeking asylum in Australia to be a legitimate refugee, urging Canberra to give her a humanitarian visa.

  • US special envoy working on Persian Gulf dispute steps down

    US special envoy working on Persian Gulf dispute steps down

    Jan 09, 2019 02:51

    A US special envoy tasked with resolving the diplomatic crisis between Qatar and the Riyadh regime and a number of its allies has quit his post, citing "unwillingness" of regional leaders to engage in dialogue.

  • Contrasting Trump, Pompeo vows to punish Saudi over Khashoggi murder

    Contrasting Trump, Pompeo vows to punish Saudi over Khashoggi murder

    Jan 08, 2019 09:29

    US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says his country will punish Saudi Arabia for the “heinous” murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, contrasting President Donald Trump’s statements that doing so would hurt American interests.

  • Saudi forces conduct deadly raid in Qatif village

    Saudi forces conduct deadly raid in Qatif village

    Jan 08, 2019 06:02

    Qatif region in Saudi Arabia has been the scene of fresh bloody violence. Saudi forces have stormed a small village in the Shia-populated region, martyring five people and injuring an unspecified number of others.

  • Yemeni snipers kill four Saudi troopers in retaliatory attack

    Yemeni snipers kill four Saudi troopers in retaliatory attack

    Jan 08, 2019 04:25

    Yemeni army soldiers, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, have shot dead four Saudi soldiers in the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Jizan, in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s military campaign against the crisis-hit country.   

  • US to upgrade Saudi missile systems after Khashoggi murder

    US to upgrade Saudi missile systems after Khashoggi murder

    Jan 07, 2019 05:21

    The United States has approved upgrades to Saudi Arabia’s missile defenses worth $195 million despite global outrage over the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a report says.

  • Saudi-backed terrorists cry foul as countries resume ties with Syria

    Saudi-backed terrorists cry foul as countries resume ties with Syria

    Jan 07, 2019 04:46

    Syria’s Saudi-backed terrorist groups are desperately calling on world nations to stop rebuilding ties with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.