Saudi Arabia

RIYADH: (Web Desk) Government-backed Saudi Arabian media outlets are trying to portray the disappearance of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a “conspiracy” targeting the kingdom. Commenting on Khashoggi’s vanishing after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, the Al Arabiya news channel said claims of his detention inside …

HUDAYAH (Web Desk) Saudi-led coalition’s airstrikes has killed at least 86 people in Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah during past 48 hours.AFP cited military and medical sources as saying on Tuesday that the Saudi aerial assaults had pounded an area close to the Hudaydah port, two farms and two training …

RIYADH (Web Desk) Top Trump administration officials have talked to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about the disappearance of a dissident Saudi journalist in Turkey.National security adviser John Bolton and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner initially talked to him about Jamal Khashoggi.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also had …

SANA’A (Web Desk) Yemeni naval forces have targeted and destroyed a Saudi military boat off the war-torn country’s northwestern coast, killing all aboard the vessel.The al-Masirah television network reported that the retaliatory attack by Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement took place off the Midi coast on Wednesday.The Saudi-led coalition has not …

RIYADH: (Web Desk) Under pressure from the US to lower oil prices, Saudi Arabia says it has already replaced Iranian crude lost to US sanctions. The announcement was made by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who told Bloomberg in an interview that his country and other producers had raised …

RIYADH: (Web Desk) A Saudi cleric with close ties to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has called on faith leaders to travel to Jerusalem al-Quds in a bid to promote “peace” with Israel. Mohammed bin Abdul Karim Issa, head of the Muslim World League, made the controversial proposal in …

RIYADH: (Web Desk) Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says Riyadh “will pay nothing” to the United States for the kingdom’s “security,” in rebuttal to US President Donald Trump who recently said King Salman would not last in power “for two weeks” without US military support. “Actually we will pay …

RIYADH (Web Desk) Saudi Arabia is currently in talks with major arms manufacturers of South Africa for wide-ranging deals, a state military firm says, as a Riyadh-led military coalition continues to pound the impoverished Yemeni nation in a war imposed on the Arabian Peninsula country more than three and a …

SANA’A (Web Desk) The head of the United Nation’s investigation team on the Yemen war has accused Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of hindering its work on documenting evidence of “possible war crimes” they have committed throughout their military aggression against the impoverished country.Speaking to Al Jazeera …

RIYADH (Web Desk) Prominent Saudi dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi has gone missing after visiting the Saudi consulate in Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against Muslim preachers, members of the press and intellectuals widens.Khashoggi’s fiancée, who asked that her name …