King Salman of Saudi Arabia has given near total control of the kingdom to his son Mohammed bin Salman. King Salman of Saudi Arabia shook up the kingdom’s cabinet on Thursday, naming new ministers and [ More … ]
Turkish President says investigation into who ordered journalist’s killing must extend to highest levels of Saudi government Jamal Khashoggi was the victim of a “gruesome murder” carried out inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in [ More … ]
Trump wants to get the U.S. out of Syria’s war, so he asked the Saudi king for $4 billion, reports the Washington Post. In a December phone call with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, President Trump had [ More … ]
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a phone call with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz late Tuesday in which the two leaders discussed Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch launched against terrorist groups in Syria’s Afrin. In the [ More … ]
Riyadh invites US firms to take part in developing kingdom’s first atomic energy program, Saudi minister says Saudi Arabia aims to start talks with Washington within weeks on an agreement to allow US firms to [ More … ]
Lebanese prime minister said that while he would be returning to Lebanon, his family would be remaining in the kingdom Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced on Twitter that he would be returning from Saudi [ More … ]
By : Middle East Observer Staff The last days in the rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia have witnessed an unprecedented political earthquake, others prefer to describe it as “Tsunami”. Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman has [ More … ]
The kingdom may not be ready for the recent social reforms adopted by the royal family. Saudi Arabia has long held on to ultraconservative views, particularly when it comes to women’s rights. But now, it [ More … ]
The new heir to Saudi Arabia’s throne has launched a crackdown on dissent in recent weeks, attempting to silence activists and critical clerics as well as his deposed predecessor, the Wall Street Journal said in [ More … ]
Agreement reached on increasing efforts to end tension between Gulf states and Qatar, sources from Erdogan’s office say. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and its new crown prince [ More … ]
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will meet Saudi Arabia’s King Salman in Mecca in a bid to resolve the Gulf’s worst diplomatic crisis in years. Turkey’s foreign minister is expected to visit Saudi Arabia on [ More … ]
Egypt looks set to go ahead with the controversial handover of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, after a parliamentary committee agreed to the transfer. Egypt’s parliamentary committee gave the green light for the [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday denounced the isolation of Qatar as “inhumane and against Islamic values”, and said the methods used against the Gulf state were unacceptable, and analogous to a “death penalty”. [ More … ]
US President Donald Trump on Friday embarked on his first overseas trip, a historic eight-day journey that includes visits to the holiest sites of three major religions, an unprecedented summit with Muslim leaders and a [ More … ]
The United States is close to completing a series of deals to sell Saudi Arabia more than $100 billion in American arms and related maintenance, a senior White House official said on Friday, as President [ More … ]
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