Posts Tagged: Saudi Arabia
A New Era in Israel-Gulf State Relations?
JNS.org - United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash was quoted by the English-language Abu Dhabi newspaper The National last week as saying, “Many, many years...
Arab Summit Expected to Reject US Decision Over Golan
Arab heads of state, long divided by regional rivalries, are expected to unite at a summit in Tunis on Sunday, March 31. Arab leaders are already grappling with unrest in Algeria and...
Does Saudi Arabia Really Want Regime Change in Iran?
Officially, both Saudi Arabia and the US, which withdrew last year from the 2015 international accord that curbs the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and imposed...
Yemen’s Houthis Say Ready to Strike Riyadh, Abu Dhabi If Coalition Moves on Hodeidah
Yemen's Houthi group said they were building their ballistic capabilities and their forces stand ready to strike Riyadh and Abu Dhabi if implementation of a...
Saudi Arabia Strips Osama bin Laden’s Son of Citizenship
Saudi Arabia has stripped citizenship from Hamza bin Laden, the son of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the Interior Ministry said in a statement published...
Rouhani Says Iran Ready to Improve Ties With Gulf States
Iran is ready to work with all of its neighbors to secure peace in the Middle East in the face of US and Israeli aggression,...
Saudi-UAE Aid Puts Pakistan-Iran Relations on the Spot
Next month, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan expects to sign a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia on a framework for $10 billion in Saudi investment...
Recent Case Spotlights the Rampant Abuse of Saudi Women
When Rahaf Mohammad Alqunun barricaded herself in a Bangkok hotel room earlier this month and took to Twitter, begging the world to protect her from...
Syria Withdrawal Proves Trump Is Both Unpredictable and Unreliable
As far as Gulf leaders are concerned, President Trump demonstrated with his announcement of US troop withdrawals from Syria and Afghanistan that his insistence the “world is...
Nuclear Energy: Saudi Arabia’s Impending Battle with Washington
Current tensions between the US and Saudi Arabia, and the kingdom’s inability to present a credible and sustainable version of events surrounding the killing of...
Western Tourists Trickle Into Saudi Arabia as It Tries to Open Up
Western tourists, a rarity in Saudi Arabia, visited this weekend under a new visa system, as one of the world's most inaccessible countries tries to...
Saudi Arabia Seeks New Political Bloc in Strategic Red Sea Region
Saudi Arabia is seeking an alliance with six countries bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, a strategic area vital to global shipping...
US Senate Resolution on Saudi Arabia Could Change Middle East Dynamics
A new, six-page draft US Senate resolution does more than portray Saudi policy as detrimental to US interests, which is striking in and of itself....
Who Are the Houthis, and Why Do They Shout ‘Death to America’?
About 170 nautical miles off the coast of Oman, a small, stateless fishing vessel was intercepted in March 2016 by the HMAS Darwin, an Australian...
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party Tweets ‘Happy Passover’ With Pic of Loaf of Bread
Alan Dershowitz Should Come Clean About Qatar
Brother of Islamist Behind 2012 Jewish School Massacre in France Sentenced to 30 Years in Jail
Jewish Scholars, ADL Condemn Arkansas Tech University Scholarship Honoring Holocaust Denier
Twelve UC Berkeley Groups Condemn ‘Antisemitic Conspiracies’ Shared at Student Government Meeting