Saudi Arabia said early on Friday that it has contributed $100 million to northeast Syria for “stabilization projects” in areas once held by the Islamic State group and now controlled by U.S.-backed forces.
Read moreYemen’s Shiite rebels on Friday backed a U.N. call for a probe into a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in the country’s north that killed dozens of people the previous day, including many children, in an attack that drew wide international criticism.
Read moreAn airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels hit a bus in a market in northern Yemen on Thursday, killing at least 20 people, including children, and wounding as many as 35, Yemeni tribal leaders said.
Read moreSaudi Arabia says it executed and crucified a man from Myanmar convicted of killing a woman and carrying out other crimes.
Read moreThe European Commission says it is seeking clarification about the arrest of human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia but the EU’s executive refuses to be drawn into a diplomatic dispute between Riyadh and Canada.
Read moreSaudi Arabia expelled the Canadian ambassador on Monday and froze “all new business” with Ottawa over its criticism of the ultraconservative kingdom’s arrest of women’s rights — yet another warning to the West reflecting Riyadh’s new assertive foreign policy.
Read moreA young Saudi Arabian woman has been charged in the western city of Taif with breaking the country’s anti-harassment laws for jumping on stage and hugging a popular singer as he performed.
Read moreThis Sunday, Saudi Arabia will lift the world’s only ban on women driving, a milestone for women who have had to rely on drivers, male relatives, taxis and ride-hailing services to get to work, go shopping and get around.
Read moreBy AYA BATRAWY, Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Monday issued the first driving licenses to
Read moreHis Royal Highness Prince Faisal Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud sued Her Royal Highness Princess Fahdah Husain Abdulrahman Al-Athel in Delaware Chancery Court, in a fight over millions of dollars and a house with 28 bathrooms.
Read moreSaudi Arabia is holding and interrogating at least 10 women’s rights activists — seven women and three men — without any access to lawyers, according to people familiar with the arrests. The detentions are seen as a culmination of a steady crackdown on perceived critics of the government.
Read moreSaudi Arabia confirmed on Thursday the arrival of a prisoner who was sent back to the kingdom from the Guantanamo Bay detention center to serve out the remainder of his 13-year sentence.
Read moreA French lawyer has filed a lawsuit in a Paris court against visiting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, accusing him of complicity in torture in Yemen, an embarrassment for the French government as it rolled out the red carpet for its powerful guest.
Read moreSaudi media are reporting a proposal to dig a maritime canal along the kingdom’s closed border with Qatar, turning the peninsula-nation into an island and further isolating it.
Read moreFamilies of 9/11 victims can investigate Saudi Arabia’s ties to two men linked to the hijackers behind the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreAs with nearly every ballistic missile launched by Yemen’s Shiite rebels targeting Saudi Arabia, the kingdom overnight said it intercepted all seven fired — but online videos raise new questions about those claims.
Read moreSaudi Arabia’s young crown prince has an ambitious list of to-dos: modernize his conservative kingdom, weaken Iran’s hand across the Mideast and, this week, rehabilitate his country’s image in the eyes of Americans.
Read moreSeveral survivors of the 9/11 attacks and representatives of those killed brought a federal complaint against Saudi Arabia and Iran, alleging that the latter knew about the attacks and helped plan and coordinate them.
Read moreA nanny hired by members of Saudi Arabian royalty living in the U.S., claims in court she was forced into slavery, subjected to psychological abuse and isolated from the outside world after her employers snatched her passport and refused to return it to her for nearly a year.
Read moreSaudi Arabia replaced its military chief of staff and other defense officials early on Tuesday morning in a shake-up apparently aimed at overhauling its Defense Ministry during the stalemated and ruinous war in Yemen.
Read more