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Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have separately received letters from Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi, which underscored the development of bilateral relations between Tehran and Riyadh in various sectors. According to the state-run Saudi Press Agency, the letters were received on behalf of …

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein says Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has urged senior Iraqi authorities to arrange a face-to-face meeting between the top diplomats of Riyadh and Tehran, amid a diplomatic process between the two neighbors aimed at mending strained ties. Hussein told Iraq’s Kurdish-language Rudaw television …

Israeli news website i24NEWS quotes the Saudi FM as saying that “the direction of Saudi-Israeli relations is normalization.” Senior diplomatic officials said the normalization process between Saudi Arabia and the Israeli occupation is a matter of time, the Israeli news website i24NEWS reported on Tuesday, citing an official document it …

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), has been appointed the country’s prime minister in a cabinet shuffle ordered by King Salman, ahead of a civil lawsuit filed against him in the United States by Hatice Cengiz, the fiancée of slain dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. …

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has over the past years turned into one of the “most dangerous” rulers in the world after gaining clout through pressing ahead with his highly repressive policies, dismissing his political rivals, and butchering his detractors inside and outside of the ultra-conservative kingdom, a …

An international human rights organization has expressed grave concern over the alarming surge in executions in Saudi Arabia in the first half of the current year, saying the figure is almost twice the number during all of last year.

A Saudi source told media news that the transfer of power in Saudi Arabia is imminent. A Saudi source, in an interview with Reuters, reacted to the presence of Prince Abdul Aziz bin Ahmad during the visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the UAE for offering condolences …

Two UK middlemen paid £9.7mn in bribes to top Saudi military officials to secure contracts for a British subsidiary of the European aerospace group Airbus, the opening day of a trial unveiled.

Local residents have been turned into “strangers” in their own hometown of Jeddah due to mass demolitions of homes and displacements, all under the latest ambitious project of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the strategic Red Sea port city. The residents say Saudi authorities are destroying vibrant working-class …

Washington and Riyadh officially insist everything is fine, but Wall Street Journal report suggests otherwise Relations between the US and Saudi Arabia – which go back to 1945 – have never been this bad, according to a report published on Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal. Insiders in Washington and …

In his latest sweeping crackdown on political dissent, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has ordered the arrest of at least 207 employees from different ministries under the guise of fighting corruption. The announcement came Monday from the kingdom’s so-called National Anti-Corruption Commission, known as ‘Nazaha,’ which reports directly …

Four Saudis who participated in the 2018 killing of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi received paramilitary training in the United States the previous year under a contract approved by the State Department, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia has executed a man for offences rights groups say he allegedly committed while under the age of 18, despite the kingdom’s insistence that it has abolished death sentences for many childhood crimes. Mustafa Hashem al-Darwish was arrested in May 2015 and charged with protest-related offences, many of which …

An Israeli company has sold cyber-espionage tech to Saudi Arabia in order to hack smartphones of dissidents and opponents of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) and spy on their communications, Haaretz reports. The Israeli newspaper, citing sources and documents, reported on Tuesday that Quadream, led by a former Israeli …

A court in the United States has summoned Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) based on a lawsuit initiated by a former senior Saudi intelligence official accusing the kingdom’s de facto ruler of an assassination attempt against him. The District of Columbia court on Friday issued the summons, just …

Twenty Saudi nationals have gone on trial in absentia in Turkey over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. Those being tried include two former top aides to Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Khashoggi was …

Associates of jailed members of the Saudi royal family have hired lobbyists with close connections to US President Donald Trump to advocate for their release, the New York Times reported. A former senior associate of Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz bin Salman al Saud hired Robert Stryk, a lobbyist with strong …

Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a punishment, the state human rights commission said Saturday, hailing a “step forward” in the reform programme launched by the king and his powerful son. Court-ordered floggings in Saudi Arabia — sometimes extending to hundreds of lashes — have long drawn condemnation from human …

Saudia Arabia has carried out 800 executions since King Salman bin Abdulaziz took power in 2015, according to a British-based human rights organization. Reprieve, which fights for victims of human rights abuses, says that the rate of executions in the Kingdom has almost doubled under his reign, which started on …

The billion-dollar Israeli spyware company accused of helping hack Jeff Bezos A bombshell UN report published Wednesday accuses Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of hacking Jeff Bezos’ phone in 2018. The UN report indicates that Mohammed carried out the hack using technology from the NSO Group, a billion-dollar Israeli …