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Envoys of Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are in Jeddah for talks on Saturday, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said, as the gathering’s international mediators pressed for an end to a conflict that has devastated the country. The U.S.-Saudi initiative is the first serious attempt to end three weeks …

Three members of a Saudi Arabian tribe opposed to the kingdom’s Neom megacity project have been sentenced to death, according to over a dozen UN rights experts. The men are from the Howaitat tribe, which inhabits the desert area in northwestern Saudi Arabia where the futuristic megacity is under construction. …

The spokesperson of the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity, Ahmed Musa, revealed last week that the electrical interconnection with Turkey is 100% complete, but Iraq is waiting for the preparation of an appropriate pricing list to implement the final operating agreement, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported. Musa confirmed that work …

Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdollahian expressed gratitude to Iraq on Monday for its role in assisting Tehran and Riyadh to reach a mutual understanding and ultimately sign an agreement in China. This came during a telephone conversation between the Iranian Minister and his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein on Sunday, …

A lawyer in Saudi Arabia claims to have submitted a lawsuit calling for the arrest and deportation of Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo, who moved to the country in December in a lucrative £175 million-a-year switch to Al Nassr, cut a frustrated figure in his latest appearance. Nassr, having recently sacked manager …

More than 100 prisoners of war were flown from Saudi Arabia to Yemen on Monday, further buoying peace hopes a day after a major exchange of 869 captives ended, the ICRC said. Two International Committee of the Red Cross planes carrying 48 prisoners each flew to Sanaa, Yemen’s rebel-held capital, …

Iran has officially invited Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz to visit the country, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Monday, after the two regional rivals agreed to end years of hostility following a China-brokered agreement in March. After years of bad relations, the two countries reached an agreement …

Saudi Arabia and Syria have pledged to seek a political solution to the crises besetting the latter, according to a joint statement released after a meeting between the two countries’ foreign ministers in Jeddah on Wednesday. Saudi’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan and Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad held discussions …

Qatar and Bahrain have reached an agreement to restore their diplomatic ties, following a long-running feud between the two Gulf nations. The two countries’ foreign ministries announced the decision in separate statements on Wednesday, following a meeting between their delegations at the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) headquarters in the Saudi …

A senior member of Yemen’s popular Ansarullah resistance movement says the United Arab Emirates (UAE) should withdraw its troops from Yemen after Saudi Arabia informed the so-called Yemeni presidential leadership council of the decision to put an end to the eight-year devastating war in Yemen after eight years of aggression. …

Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad S. al-Sudani announced that there are strategic projects to be launched with Turkey and that Saudi Arabia can invest up to $100 billion in Iraq. In a recent television interview with Al-Jazeera Channel, he highlighted that Iraq has the highest population growth rate in the region …

Saudi Arabia is planning to invite Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to an Arab League summit that Riyadh is hosting in May, three sources familiar with the plans said, a move that would formally end Syria’s regional isolation. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan will travel to Damascus in coming …

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani has affirmed his country’s commitment to forging closer economic and investment ties with Saudi Arabia, including cooperation in the energy and climate sectors. In a high-level meeting with the visiting Saudi Minister of Commerce, Majid al-Qasabi, and his accompanying delegation, al-Sudani attached importance to …

UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg says momentum to end the conflict in Yemen has been renewed by a deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran to resume ties. During a briefing at the Security Council on Wednesday, Grundberg urged the warring parties to “seize the opportunity” to …

A top military adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says a post-US era has started in the Persian Gulf region in the wake of a China-brokered deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore diplomatic ties. Speaking on Sunday, Major General Yahya …

Iraq and Oman welcomed on Friday the agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran to re-establish diplomatic ties. The countries earlier on Friday said they would also open embassies and exchange ambassadors within a period of two months, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. Iraq hailed “turning a new page” …

Iran and Saudi Arabia have reached an agreement in the Chinese capital of Beijing to restore their diplomatic relations and re-open embassies and missions, seven years after they were broken off over several issues. The agreement was struck on Friday after several days of intensive negotiations between Secretary of Iran’s …

While Saudi media reported a large fire in eastern Saudi Arabia, some social media users claimed that the fire was ignited by a missile attack. Saudi media, on Friday evening, without mentioning the cause, reported the occurrence of a fire in the industrial city of Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia. …

Yemeni sources reported that one civilian was killed and five others were injured in the attack of the Saudi army on the border area of Yemen. Saudi army forces shelled some areas of the Al-Raqo district in the border town of Manbeh in Saada province, which borders Saudi Arabia. One …

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has expressed his gratitude to the Iraqi government for its endeavors to restore Tehran’s relations with Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Speaking at a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein in Baghdad on Wednesday, Amir-Abdollahian thanked Hussein and the Iraqi government for their …