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Iran, considered the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, has increased its shipments of military supplies to Shiite Houthi rebels fighting a Saudi-led and U.S.-assisted coalition in Yemen, Reuters has learned from Western and Iranian officials on condition of anonymity.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said during the third presidential debate that the Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars in donations from counties that “treat women horribly.”

Contents: Egypt votes for two contradictory UN Security Council proposals on Syria; Saudis retaliate against Egypt, which may turn to Iran for oil

TEL AVIV – A prominent Saudi journalist called on his government to immediately lift the “illogical” and “meaningless” ban on women drivers.

Israel in 2012 considered “leaking” that it would use a military base in Saudi Arabia as a springboard to launch an airstrike against Iran as part of its efforts to counter the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, according to the latest batch of leaked emails released by WikiLeaks on Saturday.

Sunni Saudi Arabia is reportedly investing nearly $600 million on erecting two higher education institutions in restive areas of Afghanistan.

Top diplomats were to meet in Switzerland Saturday in a fresh push to revive a ceasefire in Syria, after pro-government forces intensified their bombardment of the battered city of Aleppo.

The situation off the coast of Yemen heated up dramatically on Thursday, as the U.S. Navy destroyed three Yemeni radar installations with cruise missiles, and Iran established its own naval presence in the area.

TEL AVIV – A Saudi Arabian lobbyist in the U.S. has called for “a collaborative alliance” between the Kingdom and Israel, citing “an historic opportunity” that would benefit both countries economically as well as improve relations in the entire region.

JAFFA, Israel – A media war has erupted between Egypt and Saudi Arabia after Egypt voted in favor of a Russian proposal during the last UN Security Council session on Syria.

On Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow, former Navy SEAL and Blackwater CEO Erik Prince talked about how Hillary Clinton’s leaked emails “truly indicates that everything is for sale for the Democrats, that it really is pay-to-play – and if you don’t pay them, they crush you.”

Breitbart News National Security Editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka, author of the best-selling book Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, talked with Sean Hannity of Fox News on Tuesday evening about the leaked Hillary Clinton email in which she stated Saudi Arabia

At the end of September, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) surprised the markets by agreeing to a production cut. As soon as the 14-nation deal was announced, oil prices jumped more than five percent to some of the highest levels since the crash two years ago.

Frank Gaffney, president and founder of the Center for Security Policy, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to share his observations on the latest WikiLeaks disclosure of Hillary Clinton documents.

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — Authorities continue to investigate the apparent drowning of a Saudi Arabian soldier in this resort city.

An attorney representing the families of victims of the September 11 attacks reached out to Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and aide Cheryl Mills offering to help “defang” the “politicization” of lawsuits implicating Saudi Arabia in the terrorist attacks.

Reuters reports that China’s Foreign Ministry declared support for sovereign immunity on Monday — implicitly supporting the government of Saudi Arabia against the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), which was recently upheld by a nearly-unanimous Senate vote against President Obama’s veto.

One of the U.S. Navy ships stationed off the coast of Yemen, the USS Mason, has come under attack by Houthi insurgents, who have been supported and armed by Iran.

The secret departure of two Saudi students to South Korea last week has sparked a heated debate in the ultraconservative kingdom about the status of women there. The two women disappeared on Thursday and resurfaced later that day in South

Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton called the new Saudi 9/11 bill “a hoax on the victims’ families” in an interview on Sunday’s New York AM 970 radio show “The Cats Roundtable.” “The consequences of this legislation is going to be

Sunday on “The Cats Roundtable” on New York AM 970 radio, host John Catsimatidis asked House Speaker Paul Ryan about Congress’ plans for a new Saudi 9/11 bill after the previous one that would have allowed the families of 9/11 victims

A U.N. human rights watchdog called on Saudi Arabia on Friday to end “severe” discrimination against girls and to repeal laws that allow the stoning, amputation, flogging and execution of children.

Saudi Arabia’s recent crackdown on terrorist conspirators brought 17 arrests, one of whom was Khulood al-Rukaibi, profiled by Al-Arabiya as a “mother of death” who recruited her sons to fight for the Islamic State.

Saudi Arabia began live-fire military exercises in the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz this week, triggering a stern warning from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) to stay far away from Iranian waters.

The Saudi media has stepped up its campaign against the newly passed US law that would allow relatives of 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi government for reparations.

When a teenager in Saudi Arabia began chatting up an American woman online, he first found fame and then notoriety before he was arrested over concerns that his clumsy cyber flirtation violated the kingdom’s conservative norms.

Saudi Arabia is conducting live-fire drills during war games underway in the Gulf, official media said on Tuesday, as tensions simmer with Iran.

On Saturday, a rocket attack purportedly launched by Houthi rebels in Yemen struck a ship operated by the United Arab Emirates military, nearly sinking it. The U.S. Navy has now dispatched three warships to the southern coast of Yemen, raising the possibility that America could be drawn more deeply into the Yemeni civil war — and, by extension, the proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched an airstrike against an aid ship owned by a company from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a member of the largely Sunni Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and part of the Saudi-led Arab alliance fighting the Shiite rebels, according to the state-controlled Emirates News Agency (WAM).

An Iraqi lobbyist group, citing the recently enacted law that allows Americans to sue Saudi Arabia over the September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S. homeland, is reportedly urging its government to ask the United States for compensation over alleged violations by the American military following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced JASTA, the Justice Against State Sponsors of Terrorism Act, in a speech at the opening of Turkey’s parliament on Saturday.

“What happens in Syria in the coming days and weeks can define the future of the Middle East,” stated Breitbart’s Aaron Klein. “It can define the future of the powerbrokers in the region… What is playing out…at the United Nations actually

The widow of a man who perished in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks filed a lawsuit against U.S. ally Saudi Arabia soon after Congress enacted a law over President Barack Obama’s veto that allows Americans to sue the Arab kingdom in connection to the attacks that killed more than 3,000 more than 15 years ago.

Saudi government workers will be paid according to the Gregorian calendar instead of the Islamic Hijri calendar, making the working month longer as part of cost-cutting measures, newspapers reported Monday.

The United States consulate in Adana, Turkey, warned Americans traveling abroad Monday of specific threats of violence from Islamic State members against hotels hosting foreigners.

WASHINGTON D.C. — Congressional leaders from both parties expressed buyer’s remorse soon after the House and Senate overwhelmingly voted to overturn President Barack Obama’s veto of a contentious new law that allows the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts for any role it may have played in the 2001 attacks.