Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »
Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity
:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »
Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism
:: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of More »
Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities are a test of international resolve in the face of destructive acts that More »
Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities represented a “dangerous escalation not only toward the Kingdom but also the entire world.” The Crown More »
Category Archives: Columns
Trump’s first 100 days
By : Abdullah bin Bijad Al-Otaibi :: Observing the American president and his administration during their first 100 days helps analyze their performance. It’s an American tradition as this is enough time for the president to show his character and
On cyber bulling and Twitter mentions
By : Turki Aldakhil :: Recent royal decrees reflect the reality of a new and young Saudi Arabia. A generation of Al-Saud, mostly men in their 20s and 30s, has been assigned to lead major institutions. Many experts and competent
The making of Macron
By : Dominique Moisi :: Relief and pride are the main emotions many French citizens are feeling after the first round of the French presidential election, in which Emmanuel Macron finished first. For once, the pollsters were right: The two
Qataris’ abduction and the defeat of Iraq’s sovereignty
By : Abdulrahman al-Rashed :: Former Iraqi finance and foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari said the abduction of Qataris in Iraq defeated the country’s sovereignty. This was not the first abduction of its kind. Before that, Turkish construction company workers were
A tale of two Kingdoms
By : Zaid M. Belbagi :: In 1900 the world consisted of 70 sovereign nations, a fraction of the number that exist today. The UK and the Sultanate of Morocco, however, occupy a special position in that they existed as
An affordable green card for expatriates
By : Dr. Ali Al-Ghamdi :: I have had several queries from expatriate friends of different nationalities, seeking clarification about the proposed Saudi green card. Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, second deputy premier and minister of defense, earlier announced
Move over globalization, the Silk Road is ‘rising up again’
By : Ehtesham Shahid :: “From East to West, the Silk Roads are rising up once more”. Peter Frankopan makes several interesting observations in his book – “The Silk Roads, A New History of the World.” According to him, we
North Korean nuclear crisis to shape US policy
By : Dr. Amal Mudallali :: I visited the Korean War Veterans Memorial, a few blocks from the State Department in Washington, after listening to the heightened rhetoric between the US and North Korea last week. The haunting life-size statues
The aftermath of the Turkish referendum
By : Yasar Yakis :: The Turkish people went to the polls on April 16, with a relatively high turnout of 83.3 percent, to vote on a package of 18 amendments to the Turkish Constitution. That is more than an
The Syrian imbroglio
By : Maria Dubovikova :: The coming three months will shape the world of tomorrow, and the starting point will be Syria. The recent US strike on a Syrian air base was not a game-changer, but it did contribute to
Assad’s unproved allegations about Jordan
By : Raed Omari :: Once again, Syria’s leader Bashar al-Assad has pointed an accusing finger at Jordan, claiming that the security-concerned kingdom is planning to deploy troops in his war-torn country. Assad made his allegations in an interview Friday
The new circumstances surrounding birth control
By : Abdulrahman al-Rashed :: During previous discussions targeting developments in the region, the calls for family planning, especially those related to birth control, had always been faced with confrontational or hostile answers because this issue was considered a foreign
Building resilient rural livelihoods is key to helping Yemen
By : José Graziano Da Silva :: People in Yemen are suffering from the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. More than 17 million people around Yemen’s rugged landscape are acutely food insecure, and the figure is likely to increase as the
The UK’s surprisingly predictable snap election
By : Yossi Mekelberg :: If anything was surprising about British Prime Minister Theresa May’s call for snap elections, it was that it took her so long to make this decision. She was never too convincing in her promises not
Do not be fooled again: Iran hard-liners vs moderates
By : Dr. Majid Rafizadeh :: Iran’s government is playing its hand very skilfully in the upcoming presidential elections, as it did in 2013, when the world was sold the idea that a “moderate” was running against a “hard-liner.” Many
Lessons for Saudi Arabia as Britain says goodbye to ‘king’ coal
By : Frank Kane :: Britain was once described as “an island of coal,” so the news last week that the country had — for the first time since the latter days of the Industrial Revolution — gone a whole
The French elections have produced few surprises yet, but what of round 2?
By : Dr. Mohamed A. Ramady :: Despite last minute jitters over a late surge by far-left candidate Lean-Luc Melenchon, independent centrist Emmanuel Macron and National Front leader Marine Le Pen were the frontrunners. At the end of the first
Britain’s Mother Theresa
By : Trisha de Borchgrave :: British Prime Minister Theresa May’s surprising, though not astonishing, announcement that she would ask Parliament for a general election on June 8 comes on the heels of a soul-searching referendum 10 months ago, in
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