Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is embarking on a trip to the Gulf this week, marking his first post-reelection multi-country tour that is expected to yield new agreements to further diplomacy and economic cooperation with [ More … ]
Egyptian business tycoon Samih Sawiris says Saudi Arabia a more promising place to invest, as his country now has three different exchange rates Egyptian billionaire Samih Sawiris has declared that he is not going to [ More … ]
The former head of the United States’ National Security Agency (SNA) has reportedly received at least $700,000 for consultancy contracts with Saudi Arabia, even after the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Former NSA director [ More … ]
As China attempts to assert its geopolitical clout with Riyadh, US senators push for addressing human rights concerns in Saudi Arabia A bipartisan pair of US senators introduced a resolution yesterday (Wednesday, 15 March) that [ More … ]
China’s prestigious accomplishment vaults it into a new league diplomatically and outshines anything the US has been able to achieve in the region since Biden came to office, states NYT. “The agreement negotiated in Beijing [ More … ]
The surprise deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore diplomatic ties offers much for the United States to be intrigued about, an analysis by Reuters states, in comment on restoration of Saudi-Iranian relations. This [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday offered effusive praise for the UAE, seeking to repair a rift between Cairo and Gulf states, reported the Associated Press. It is noteworthy that the Gulf Arab states have [ More … ]
The Saudi court documents reveal reasons for Dr. Awad Al-Qarni’s arrest, even though Saudi rulers are major investors in social media platforms The prominent law professor, Dr. Awad Al-Qarni, has been handed a death sentence [ More … ]
A senior Israeli official has criticized the extremist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, for storming Al-Aqsa Mosque on Tuesday morning. The senior Israeli official said Itamar Ben-Gvir’s storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque had “destroyed the [ More … ]
Egypt is holding up the implementation of the agreement over the two strategic Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir, according to Axios, an American news website. The Red Sea islands agreement had paved the [ More … ]
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met with his Saudi counterpart at a regional conference in Jordan on Wednesday This meeting is the first highest-level public contact between the two countries since they severed the diplomatic [ More … ]
A Saudi court issues prison sentences from ten to eighteen years to ten Nubian Egyptians who were arrested after holding a community event in 2019 Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court on 10 October handed prison [ More … ]
The Democratic chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee called on Monday for a freeze on cooperation with Saudi Arabia, including most arms sales, accusing the kingdom of helping underwrite the Russian war on [ More … ]
A Saudi court has given a woman 45 years in prison for social media posts, a watchdog said, in latest example of crackdown on women activists, following a visit by US President Joe Biden to [ More … ]
The Egyptian Cabinet had approved the sale of the Egyptian Gas Holding Company (GASCO) stake in the Misr Fertilizer Production Company (MOPCO), for the benefit of the Saudi Investment Fund, reported Russia Today, citing Egyptian [ More … ]
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