Putin visits Saudi Arabia on Mideast trip in bid to boost Russia's presence and energy ties
Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Saudi Arabia on Monday, meeting with the oil-rich nation's king and crown prince as he seeks to cement Moscow's political and energy ties across the Mideast. Putin received all the trappings of a state visit, with a mounted guard ...
Khamenei tells Iran's Revolutionary Guard to develop advanced, modern weapons
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards on Sunday to develop more advanced and modern weapons, amid increasingly tense disputes with the United States and Gulf Arab states. Tensions in the Gulf have risen to new highs since May 2018, when the ...
Saudi Arabia launched on Sunday a new logistics zone open to private investors in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, as part of a wider industrial initiative to diversify the economy away from oil and create jobs for Saudis. The al Khomra zone — ...
Iran says still-mysterious attack on oil tanker won't go unpunished
Iran said Saturday that an attack on one of the country's oil tankers won't go unpunished, the official IRNA news agency reported. Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said a day after two missiles struck the Iranian tanker Sabiti as it traveled ...
Two missiles fired from Saudi territory struck an Iranian tanker traveling through the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia on Friday, Iranian officials said, the latest incident in the region amid months of heightened tensions between Tehran and the U.S. There was no ...
Saudi Arabia has lifted some restrictions on women traveling in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom, its tourism authority said Sunday, with new guidelines allowing women to rent hotel rooms without a male guardian's presence, and foreign men and women to share a room without proof ...
Jamal Khashoggi remembered outside Saudi Consulate where he was slain amid calls for U.N. probe
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos joined activists and friends of Jamal Khashoggi near the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Wednesday, and demanded justice for the journalist on the first-year anniversary of his horrific death at the hands of Saudi agents. The memorial began just after ...
Slain Saudi writer's fiancee says prince must give answers now that he's accepted responsibility
The fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi says Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has a duty to answer questions now that he'd accepted responsibility for the killing inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year. Hatice Cengiz told The Associated Press she is apprehensive ...
Suspects in murder of Jamal Khashoggi made 'chilling' jokes before killing, U.N. investigators say
Saudi operatives suspected of killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the country's Istanbul consulate were heard joking and talking about dismemberment before his arrival, according to secret tapes heard by U.N. investigators. Helena Kennedy, a British lawyer assisting the U.N. probe into Khashoggi's death, said recordings ...
Saudi Aramco is producing more than 9.9 million barrels of crude a day as it fully recovers from the worst-ever attacks on its energy infrastructure. Output reached that level Sept. 25 and is a "little bit" higher now, Ibrahim Al-Buainain, chief executive officer of state-owned ...
Yemen's Houthi rebels free 290 prisoners, reviving hopes for peace talks
Yemen's rebels on Monday released scores of detainees they had rounded up and held for years in rebel-controlled territory, a development that raised hopes of reviving stalled peace talks between the warring sides. The International Committee of the Red Cross said the Iran-aligned rebels, known ...
U.N. expert blasts Saudi prince over denial of Jamal Khashoggi 'state killing'
A U.N. human rights expert who led a probe into the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi criticized Saudi Arabia's crown prince on Monday for trying to create "distance" between himself and the execution. Agnes Callamard, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, was ...
