With attacks or thwarted plots in Kuwait, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia in the past two weeks, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) appears to be expanding its reach in the Arab world outside of Syria and Iraq, where it established its “Caliphate.”
The Fourth of July might give Americans a new concept of independence after a global study was released showing the United States now leads Saudi Arabia and Russia in recoverable oil reserves thanks in large part to Texas.
State-linked Saudi news websites reported an explosion Monday near one of Islam’s holiest sites in the city of Medina, as two suicide bombers struck in different cities without killing anyone.
The Sunni-Shia battle between Saudi Arabia and Iran continues as the Saudi Foreign Minister slams Iran for “destabilizing” the Middle East, even as advocacy groups called for the suspension of Saudi Arabia from the U.N. Human Rights Council over its military operation in Yemen.
This revelation shows that while Huma Abedin was serving at the highest level of government as Hillary Clinton’s aide and had access to this information, Abedin also had a direct connection to a group that was actively suspected of funding groups including al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Hamas that had not only killed civilians around the world but also U.S. servicemen.
JAFFA, Israel – Several hashtags have been launched on Arab social media, including the popular #Turkey_is_not_alone, as tens of thousands have reacted to Tuesday’s attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport.
JAFFA, Israel – A former Saudi military officer has been arrested on suspicion of having slaughtered his wife after being radicalized and gravitated toward the Islamic State.
This latest revelation ties the Muslim World League directly to the The Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs and the Journal for Muslim Minority Affairs, an organization that Vanity Fair writer William D. Cohan called “the Abedin family business.
Millions of dollars worth of CIA- and Saudi Arabian-supplied weapons destined for Syrian rebels, including “Kalashnikov assault rifles, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades,” have been stolen by Jordanian intelligence officials and sold on the black market, found a joint investigation by the New York Times (NYT) and Al Jazeera, citing unnamed U.S. and Jordanian officials.
A Saudi company came under fire for organizing a mixed-gender iftar dinner for its employees.
Fashion violations in Saudi Arabia are serious business during the Ramadan holiday season. According to Foreign Desk News, up to 50 men have been arrested for wearing such “un-Islamic” clothing as ripped jeans, shorts, necklaces, and Crocs shoes, as well as “bizarre Western hair styles.”
TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia’s official daily Okaz published an article titled “Ayatollah Obama – A Tehran Love Story,” slamming President Barack Obama for going against traditional U.S. foreign policy by supporting Iran and abandoning the Middle East.
A government crackdown against Shiite dissenters accused of being affiliated with Iran has sparked more unrest in Sunni-led Bahrain.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is being taunted on social media for presenting Saudi King Salmon with a framed copy of the 1930s-era Palestine Post – a pre-state Zionist newspaper.
An Egyptian court on Tuesday quashed a government decision to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, judicial sources said, overruling a deal that had sparked public outrage.
A hacked 42-page Democrat National Committee memo released on Monday reveals the dizzying array of Clinton Foundation scandal facts the DNC considers “vulnerabilities” for presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Contents: Iran threatens coup, after Bahrain revokes citizenship of Shia cleric; Iran reacts to a series of repeated anti-Shia moves by Bahrain and Saudi Arabia
The unspeakable atrocity in Orlando last Sunday has opened the floodgates to a torrent of heated discussion about the reasons behind America’s deadliest mass shooting.
WASHINGTON — Inside an opulent palace in Riyadh late one evening in February 2004, two American investigators interrogated a man they believed might hold answers to one of the lingering mysteries of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks: What role, if any, did officials in Saudi Arabia’s government play in the plot?
Hamas has come under fire from Palestinian and Syrian pundits and social media users after deputy leader Moussa Abu Marzouk lauded Iran for its support for Palestinian resistance movements.
The Wall Street Journal has confirmed that Omar Mateen – the jihadi responsible for the killing of 49 people at the Orlando night club Pulse this week – traveled to Saudi Arabia in 2012 as part of a program run by
Contents: UAE backs out of Saudi coalition in Yemen, saying ‘War is over’; Saudi Arabia is condemned for Yemen’s humanitarian disaster
JAFFA, Israel – A Saudi columnist sparked controversy when he accused his compatriots of ignoring women’s ” illustrious role”in Muslim history and relegating them to the status of a “coal bag.”
Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has arrived in the United States amid strained U.S.-Saudi relations.
The government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced that it will be withdrawing active combat troops from Yemen, where the UAE has been fighting alongside Saudi Arabia in defense of the internationally recognized government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin has deep and, so far, unexplained connections to a Saudi Arabian man who ran a Saudi organization that U.S. intelligence connected to terror funding during both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush’s administrations, but escaped scrutiny after pressure from the Saudi Arabian government.
GOP presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday called on Democrat Party presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton to return the many millions the Clinton Foundation received from Saudi Arabia, in light of Clinton’s claims that she is supportive of women and gays.
Former FBI Counterterrorism Center instructor Kim Jenson told Breitbart News Sunday that the proper context for understanding the heinous atrocity in Orlando is that “the War on Terrorism is not against Islam,” but rather against “a very specific ideology within the community of Islam.”
The Saudi government is reportedly displeased by “charities” in the kingdom raising funds for the “children of Fallujah” — that is, Sunni Muslims, caught in the crossfire as Iran-backed Shiite militias battle the Islamic State in Iraq.
A Saudi family that filmed themselves eating an extravagant Ramadan feast around a moving table has caused an uproar on social media platforms over the meaning of the holiday and the morals of luxury at a time when many in the Arab world are in need.
Hillary Clinton’s victory speech in her campaign for the Democratic Party nomination led many Arab social media users to debate her personality and skills.
A group composed of 21 family members and survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks wrote a letter to the White House, imploring President Barack Obama to declassify 28 pages from a bipartisan joint congressional inquiry into intelligence failures surrounding the al-Qaeda strike.
Talk of a production cap to stabilize oil prices seems like a distant memory now, as Iran continues ramping up post-sanctions production and Saudi Arabia cuts oil prices to Europe to compete.
(Reuters) More than 25 European and Asian-owned supertankers are shipping Iranian oil, data seen by Reuters shows, allowing Tehran to ramp up exports much faster than analysts had expected following the lifting of sanctions in January.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and LinkedIn were allegedly hacked Sunday by a group believed to be from Saudi Arabia as a demonstration of the vulnerability of social media accounts, even for top tech leaders.
The Saudi security services have uncovered 33 spies who have been working for the Israeli Mossad and the Iranian intelligence for the past three years, reports said on Sunday.
Tehran on Sunday dismissed its renewed blacklisting by Washington as a state sponsor of terrorism charging that it was US allies including Riyadh that were the real culprits.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s powerful deputy crown prince is expected to visit Washington in mid-June for talks with top U.S. officials, possibly including President Barack Obama, amid growing friction between the longtime allies, three sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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The Saudi Initiative, originally proposed by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in 2002, states that Israel would receive “normal relations” with the Arab world in exchange for a full withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip, West Bank, Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem, which includes the Temple Mount.
