Saudi Arabia

A high-ranking Saudi sports official has raised eyebrows after destroying a television while watching a charity video game contest, with many comparing the outburst to the way the kingdom is run under Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS). Turki al-Sheikh, Chairman of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA), posted a …

Rights groups have voiced concerns for the safety of a Saudi woman who was reportedly arrested after she “insulted” Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on social media.Amani Alzain, a 40-year-old Jeddah resident, was targeted by government loyalists in a social media campaign after she apparently referred to MBS …

A Saudi scholar says the family of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have forgiven his killers under “pressure and intimidation” from the Riyadh regime. Abdullah Alaoudh, a Saudi academic at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and himself the son of a Saudi dissident, wrote in an article on The Washington …

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for the immediate release of two adult children of a former Saudi intelligence officer, who has been lying low abroad since the rise of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to power. The New York-based rights body said in a report on Tuesday that Omar …

Saudi authorities are reportedly using extreme harassment tactics against relatives of a dissident hiding abroad to force him to return to the kingdom. The New York Times on Thursday said Saad Aljabri, a former Saudi intelligence officer, has been under increasing pressure by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to return …

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ordered officials at the department under his watch to find a way to justify the use of an emergency declaration meant to expedite the $8 billion weapons sale to Saudi Arabia, CNN reports. Four sources in the US State Department told the TV channel …

A number of prominent jailed Saudi royals and their allies have reportedly hired influential lobbyists in the US to establish links with President Donald Trump’s circle and push for an end to “political persecution” by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, while he is busy dealing with a coronavirus-related economic crisis …

TEHRAN: Bahrain’s leading Shia cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Ahmed Qassim said continuing the resistance and avoiding division in the Muslim World are the key moves to overcome the occupying regime of Israel’s atrocities.“Reaching power entails unity and avoiding divisions, as well as selfless efforts and sacrifices on the right path,” …

American aircraft-manufacturing giant Boeing has secured two military contracts to provide hundreds of cruise missiles to Saudi Arabia, a US ally that has been leading a brutal war on impoverished Yemen. The US Department of Defense announced in a statement on Wednesday that Boeing had won two contracts worth over …

A source in the Liaison and Coordination Officers Operations Room, which monitors violations in Hodeidah, confirmed, Wednesday, that  61 violations of the coalition forces had been recorded in the Hodeidah fronts during the past 24 hours. The source pointed out that among the 48 violations were various attacks with bullets, …