In a surprise move, the Saudi royal excused on October 31 Ibrahim Al-Assaf, the Minister of Finance from his post and replaced him with the market regulator Mohammed Al-Jadaan, formerly head of the kingdom’s Capital [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Naif, deputy premier and minister of interior, is supposed to visit Turkey on Sept. 29-30, according to the Saudi Gazette. The Saudi Gazette reported that during the two-day visit, [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met, on Saturday, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss developments in the Middle East, ahead of a G20 summit in the Chinese coastal city of [ More … ]
Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli and Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed on Tuesday 17 cooperative agreements, reported Xinhua 17 memorandums of understanding (MoU) were signed between the two nations in fields [ More … ]
Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Pakistan on Sunday, then will embark on a several-nation tour, including China and Japan . The Saudi royal met with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia just made it much more likely that OPEC and other oil producers will take action if crude prices weaken. The word that the cartel will meet on the sidelines of an energy conference [ More … ]
King Salman of Saudi Arabia failed to show at the Arab League summit this week in Mauritania, allegedly for health reasons. The king’s health has been a question since his accession to the throne last [ More … ]
Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been in Washington along with fellow defense ministers of all the United States’ key allies. They have held crucial meetings to consider the fight against terror. Their [ More … ]
Informed sources disclosed that Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammad bin Salman has played a bigger role than earlier thought in the recent military coup in Turkey. Saudi whistle-blower Mujtahid, who is believed [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia wants to expand its investments in China’s energy industry, the Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said late on Friday, part of the kingdom’s efforts to boost cooperation with a top customer and increase [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia is talking the oil market up lately. That’s a big change from a few months when it was talking the market down. In fact, Saudi Arabia has been doing much more than talking [ More … ]
On June 7, Saudi Arabia laid out its National Transformation Plan to shift away from an oil-based economy. To do so, the plan’s architect, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, intends to create the world’s [ More … ]
A visit to the US by Saudi Arabia’s young deputy crown prince has raised speculation that his superiors are seriously ill and are being pushed out of the kingdom’s political scene. Bruce Riedel, a former [ More … ]
President Barack Obama met Saudi deputy crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman on Friday at the White House and discussed ways to support Iraqis in their fight against Islamic State militants and the importance of a political [ More … ]
The Saudi prince who seems to have won a family power struggle is meeting with U.S. officials this week — some of them the same officials who are concerned his reign could be ruinous and [ More … ]
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