RIYADH: Two royal deaths and two cabinet reshuffles in just over a year have edged Saudi Arabia’s ruling family toward a tough decision: turning to a...
RIYADH: Saudi judges who enforce sharia (Islamic law) have condemned what they see as "the stench of Western ideas" in sweeping legal reforms pushed by King...
DUBAI: Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee (CBG) signed a long-term supply agreement with the United Arab Emirates for the main raw material in aluminium, the...
RIYADH: At least 23 people were killed when a fuel truck crashed into a flyover in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Thursday, triggering an explosion that brought...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is satisfied that oil prices have fallen to a level that does not hamper global growth, Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said on...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it had arrested a man suspected of killing a policeman and injuring another in a shooting last month in a restive area...
RIYADH: A Bangladeshi man was shot dead in the Awamiya district of eastern Saudi Arabia on Monday, police and activists said, amid conflicting accounts of how...
RIYADH: Dozens of Saudis staged a rare protest Monday against the detention of relatives held without trial for security offenses in a country that escaped...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will push private companies to pay Saudi workers as much as their state-employed counterparts with the goal of encouraging more citizens...
NEW YORK: Standard Chartered has settled allegations that it helped Iranian clients dodge U.S. sanctions, announcing a fine of $340 million from a New York...
RIYADH: Saudi telco Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) has awarded IBM a five-year contract worth 1.05 billion riyals ($280 million) to outsource its information...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's interior minister said on Monday that a prominent anti-government cleric arrested earlier this month was mentally unstable,...
LONDON: Renewed unrest among minority Shi'ite Muslims in Saudi Arabia have exposed a rift between their traditional leaders and a younger, more radical...
LONDON: Saudi Arabia’s “peasant prince” with the twinkling eye, hawkish views and fondness for the Dallas Cowboys football team is back, now...
RIYADH: By appointing Prince Ahmad as Saudi Arabia’s new interior minister, 89-year-old King Abdullah has indicated the likely path of succession in the...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's elderly king led funeral prayers on Sunday for his heir, Crown Prince Nayef, whose death forces him to find a new successor capable...
RIYADH: The dingy corridors and gloomy wards of a long-abandoned Saudi Arabian hospital have drawn hundreds of amateur ghost hunters who believe it to be...
RIYADH: Gulf Arab countries failed to agree on further integration on Monday after a high-profile summit seen as part of Saudi efforts to counter Iran's...
DUBAI/RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are expected to announce closer political union at a meeting of Gulf Arab leaders Monday, a Bahraini minister said, in...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia used an unrivaled network of tribal and family connections to infiltrate Islamist militant strongholds in Yemen, enabling it to help...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia should install much more solar power over the next 20 years than any country has managed so far while building around 21 gigawatts (GW)...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has passed an anti-money laundering law aimed at stopping cash getting to violent militant groups - a move sought by Washington after the...
RIYADH: More than 1 million Saudi Arabians are now receiving unemployment benefit, the labour ministry said on Wednesday, underlining a source of potential...
LONDON: Unknown gunmen shot and wounded three Saudi Arabian security men patrolling a village populated by members of the kingdom's Shi'ite Muslim...
LONDON: Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said on Monday its security forces would use "an iron fist" to end violence in a Shi'ite Muslim...