One person was killed and seven others were wounded in an attack by Iranian-allied Yemeni rebels on an airport in Saudi Arabia Sunday evening, the Saudi military said, as the U.S. secretary of state was on his way to the country for talks on Iran.
Read morePresident Donald Trump brushed aside the grisly killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying his death has already been investigated and a Saudi pledge to spend billions of dollars on U.S. military equipment “means something to me.”
Read moreAgainst threats of a veto by President Donald Trump, the Senate on Thursday passed the first of three resolutions aimed at blocking arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
Read moreCiting “credible evidence,” an independent U.N. human rights expert investigating the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Wednesday recommended an investigation into the possible role of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder.
Read moreYemen’s Iran-allied rebels said they launched a cruise missile Wednesday at a Saudi airport, an attack the kingdom said hit the arrivals hall and wounded 26 people, hours before Japan’s prime minister was expected in Iran for a historic visit aimed at defusing tensions in the Persian Gulf.
Read moreOpposition to President Donald Trump’s Saudi Arabia policy and use of executive power is building in Congress, where senators have introduced more legislation aimed at blocking the sale of weapons to the kingdom.
Read moreYemen’s Iranian-allied Houthi rebels said Tuesday they attacked a Saudi airport and military base with a bomb-laden drone, an assault acknowledged by the kingdom as Mideast tensions remain high between Tehran and the United States. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
Read moreIran quadrupled its uranium-enrichment production capacity amid tensions with the United States over Tehran’s atomic program, nuclear officials said Monday, just after President Trump and Iran’s foreign minister traded threats and taunts on Twitter.
Read moreAn oil pipeline that runs across Saudi Arabia was hit by drones Tuesday, the Saudi energy minister said, as regional tensions flared days after what the kingdom called an attack on two of its oil tankers near the Persian Gulf.
Read moreFour oil tankers anchored in the Mideast were damaged by what Gulf officials described as sabotage, though satellite images obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday showed no major visible damage to the vessels.
Read moreWhen an attractive young Middle Eastern woman contacted Saudi dissident Ali AlAhmed over Twitter last November, he was immediately suspicious. The Associated Press was on the verge of publishing a story about how AlAhmed, who is based in the Washington area, had been targeted by hackers posing as a female journalist.
Read moreSaudi Arabia said Monday two of its oil tankers were sabotaged off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in attacks that caused “significant damage” to the vessels, one of them as it was en route to pick up Saudi oil to take to the United States.
Read moreA congressional bid to end the U.S. support of the war in Yemen fell short on Thursday, as the Senate could not override President Donald Trump’s veto of the resolution.
Read morePresident Donald Trump on Tuesday vetoed a bill passed by Congress to end U.S. military assistance in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.
Read moreFor the second time in as many months, the House of Representatives on Thursday voted to withdraw U.S. support from the war in Yemen, setting up a major showdown with the White House over the conflict.
Read moreThe directors of Italy’s premier opera house, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, are meeting to decide whether to accept controversial funding from Saudi Arabia.
Read moreThe Senate voted 54-46 Wednesday to end America’s involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, potentially setting the stage for President Donald Trump to use veto powers for the first time.
Read moreTaking an unusually strong stance against Saudi Arabia before the U.N.’s human rights body, three dozen Western countries demanded Thursday that the Gulf nation disclose “all information available” on the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Read moreIn Year 1 of the Trump administration, the First Family received more than $140,000 in gifts from foreign states, with China and Saudi Arabia at the head of the pack, the State Department reported Wednesday.
Read moreThe family of a dual Saudi-U.S. citizen imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for more than a year say he has been tortured and is on the verge of an emotional breakdown.
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