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 »
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Corruption is corrosive, and Saudi Arabia is right to fight it
By : Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg :: For a long time, organizations such as the World Bank, the UN Development Programme and Transparency International, not to mention respected academics and authors, have thoroughly studied the corrosive effects of corruption. They have
Egypt beware: Daesh militants who survive will have to go somewhere
By : Abdellatif El-Menawy :: Daesh seems to be shaking before finally falling down. It started a few months ago when different parties felt that Daesh had served its intended purpose and it was time for it to vanish geographically.
Fundamental Saudi shifts and the change coming to the Middle East
By : Raghida Dergham :: What will happen now that the strategy of US President Donald Trump on Iran and its proxies has finally converged with Saudi strategy, which has decided that Lebanon’s Hezbollah is the “head of the snake”
An end to the Syrian war, but not to the crisis
By : Abdulrahman Al-Rashed :: This could be the last chapter of the Syrian conflict as we have known it for the past six years, but the Syrian crisis has other chapters to follow. In order to end it, the
Why Saad Al-Hariri has done the right thing
By : Eyad Abu Shakra :: For some in “occupied” and “subjugated” Lebanon, the nightmare is over; for others, the country is approaching a regional cliff edge. In fact, Lebanon is going through a second “March 14th” uprising, this time
How Iran tried to turn Arab states into fading ghosts
By : Amir Taheri :: If history is a stage on which the fate of nations is played out, knowing when to step in and when to bow out is of crucial importance. Being in the wrong place at the
America and its inexplicable love affair with guns
By : Yossi Mekelberg :: It has become a matter of a tragic routine in the US, after yet another mass shooting, to embark on a passionate debate about the wisdom of allowing millions of Americans to own and carry
Yes, Daesh is beaten, but religious extremism is not
By : Osama Al-Sharif :: Time is running out fast for Daesh, the terrorist group that first appeared in late 2013 and within months was able to claim vast swaths of Iraqi and Syrian territories on which it proclaimed its
War options with Iran
By : Abdulrahman al-Rashed :: Confrontation fronts with Iran and its major allies have increased. The ballistic missile, which the Houthis launched on the Saudi capital, is a dangerous military development that cannot be separated from the regional conflict with
A worrying glimpse inside Netanyahu’s parallel universe
By : Yossi Mekelberg :: A foreign visit is always a welcome break for a leader besieged at home. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to be rather relaxed and enjoying himself on a celebratory visit to London to
Saudi Arabia: Damned if it acts against corruption, damned if it doesn’t
By : Faisal J. Abbas :: Recent events in Saudi Arabia have certainly shown how astonishingly imaginative — and incredibly misinformed — some self-proclaimed “experts” who appear in international media outlets can be. I am not sure how some of
‘If needed’ is a phrase to avoid
By : Wael Mahdi :: To extend or not to extend the current production-cuts agreement: That is the question the oil market is waiting to know on Nov. 30, when OPEC ministers and their non-OPEC counterparts meet in Vienna. Although
Stepping up: Israel’s increasing anxiety about Syria
By : Chris Doyle :: Syria is very popular in the Middle East. Practically every regional power has sent forces, intervened, sponsored proxies or affected this conflict in some way. Yet perhaps one actor that has received less attention than
Hezbollah and Hariri’s resignation, time for confrontation
By : Mashari Althaydi :: Around a year later, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri made the normal and expected decision of leaving Hezbollah’s secret government. Hariri formed his government in December 2016, and it has made some good achievements such
Why does Daesh always succeed in stimulating people’s evil side?
By : Mohammed Nosseir :: Terrorism is no longer an organizational structure with clear-cut disciplines. It has become an affiliation of evil; people from all over the world come together to express their anger and hatred by committing terrorist acts.
The Rohingya crisis is now genocide and we must recognize it as such
By : Dr Azeem Ibrahim :: The Rohingya situation has been evolving. And now, it seems, we can no longer avoid the conclusion we have all been dreading. This is now a genocide, and we, in the international community, must
Life’s no child’s play for many kids
By : Harun Yahya :: While their peers are in the classroom, they are working … While their peers are playing in the schoolyard, they are working … They are working even when they should be with their mothers and
Hezbollah, Iran and dying for a tomb
By : Yahya Alameer :: In Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, people are growing wary of sectarian figures and leaders who have hindered development of their countries and dragged them into internal conflicts and regional wars. This is pretty clear in
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