RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s crackdown on foreign workers has thrown millions of lives into turmoil and caused rioting in big cities, but the economy should...
RIYADH: If Secretary of State John Kerry visited Riyadh to reassure top Saudis that their anger over U.S. Middle East policy is unfounded, he has more work to...
RIYADH/DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s warning that it will downgrade its relationship with the United States is based on a fear that President Barack Obama lacks...
RIYADH: When Saudi Arabia’s veteran foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, made no annual address to the U.N. General Assembly last week for the first time...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's frustration at international inaction over Syria and the Palestinians led it to cancel its speech at the United Nations General...
RIYADH/DOHA: Washington’s last-minute decision to call off military strikes against Syria deals a blow to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but the states that arm...
RIYADH: In his full-throated cry of support for the Egyptian authorities, Saudi King Abdullah Friday described protests by the Muslim Brotherhood as...
RIYADH/DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah’s disdain for Iran leaps from U.S. Embassy cables. “May God prevent us from falling victim to...
RIYADH/DOHA: The $12 billion in aid Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait offered Egypt this week showed their delight at the army’s ousting...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief, Prince Muqrin, once told American diplomats the Middle East’s so-called Shiite Crescent where...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has confirmed six new cases of the SARS-like novel coronavirus in its Eastern Province, state media reported on Monday and Tuesday,...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia should cut energy subsidies that are burdening public finances, the economy minister and the head of the state-run utility said, a move...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has removed veteran deputy defence minister Prince Khaled bin Sultan from his post, state media reported on Saturday, the...
RIYADH: A Saudi Arabian prosecutor has demanded the death penalty for a Shi'ite Muslim cleric whose arrest last summer triggered deadly protests in the...
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: Down a narrow alleyway deep in the Jeddah slum of Karantina, three women from Sudan have set up stalls under colourful parasols, selling...
BURAIDAH, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia on Thursday accused online activists of using social media to stir up protests, banned in the kingdom, by distributing...
RIYADH: Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has attacked the Forbes Billionaires List as flawed and biased against Middle Eastern businesses and asked...
RIYADH: Inflation in Saudi Arabia is running at acceptable levels, the country's central bank chief said on Sunday, playing down concerns that the economy...
RIYADH: Fears that an Iranian nuclear weapon might trigger an atomic arms race across the Middle East are overplayed, a U.S. security thinktank said on...
MANAMA: For Maryam Abdullah Jawad, a Shiite Muslim, grief at the loss of her son prevents her even contemplating the idea of solving Bahrain's political...
MANAMA: Bahrain's government and opposition held reconciliation talks on Sunday for the first time since July 2011 to try to end two years of political...
RIYADH: The message boards of online expat forums in Saudi Arabia tell their own story: increasingly frantic enquiries from new arrivals looking for somewhere...
MANAMA: Yemen's security chief has told Iran to stop training and funding Shi'ite Muslim rebels who, along with al Qaeda-backed Islamists and southern...
MANAMA: Bahrain's Crown Prince called for dialogue with the country's opposition to break a deadlock in the restive Gulf Arab state, an appeal met...
RIYADH: Growth in business activity in Saudi Arabia dived to a one-year low during a November marked by extended public holidays but it remained well above...