Saudi Arabia

TEHRAN: The US-Saudi aggression continues to launch raids and bombardments on a number of governorates in Yemen, causing damage to public and private property. Meanwhile, it continues to violate the ceasefire in Hodeidah. The Liaison and Coordination Officers’ Operations Room, which monitors violations of the Stockholm Agreement and Ceasefire, reported …

As well as maintaining opulent lifestyles, the Saudi monarchy has been pumping its extensive wealth into fuelling the Middle East’s wars.Saudi Arabia’s ruling royal family has a net worth of about $1.4 trillion, which is 16 times more than that of the British royal family. The ruling monarchy draws most …

The coronavirus pandemic coupled with a dramatic fall in oil prices is taking its toll on the leadership of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), a new analysis shows. The analysis from the US-based think tank The Soufan Center indicates that the implications of the current circumstances are …

The Saudi government issued a ministerial decision  on Sunday to regulate the labor contract during exceptional circumstances caused by the coronavirus outbreak. It stipulates reducing salaries in the private sector by 40 percent with the possibility of terminating the contracts. According to Asharq Al-Awsat, the document  allows employers to reduce …

Iraq’s Badr organization, which is part of the country’s Popular Mobilization Forces or Hashd al-Sha’abi, says the US and Saudi Arabia are seeking to reactivate Daesh, adding that recent attacks by the Takfiri terrorist group serve that aim. Speaking to Arabic-language al-Maalomah news agency, Mohammed Mahdi al-Bayati, a senior leader …

Saudi Arabia is planning to adopt what it calls ‘strict’ measures in an effort to prevent the coronavirus pandemic from further affecting its oil-driven economy that has already been battered by historically low crude prices. In an interview with Saudi-owned al-Arabiya TV on Saturday, Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan said …

Saudi forces have reportedly arrested a social activist over complaining about the Riyadh regime’s discriminatory and racist policies in the Shia-populated Qatif region. The Arabic-language Mirat al-Jazeera news website reported on Tuesday that Saudi activist Atef Abdul Wahid al-Ghanem had been taken into custody on Friday. The report came three …

Saudi medical sources say more than half of Mecca’s residents have been infected by COVID 19 as indicated by random testing conducted in the holy city. Middle East Eye has cited three senior Saudi medical sources as saying that almost 70 percent of Mecca’s two million residents contracted the novel …

Saudi Arabia has urged the separatists allied with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to end the self-rule rule they have newly announced in Yemen’s south and return to cooperation under a Riyadh deal, as a rift in the Saudi-led coalition waging war on Yemen cracks open again. The Saudi cabinet …

TEHRAN: Saudi activist Alya Abutayah Alhwaiti announced that she has been threatened to death on the phone and on Twitter from people she believes are supporters of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. She said she was warned to expect ‘the same fate as Jamal Khashoggi’ after alerting the world to …