A new MintPress News study based on Dept. of Defense documents can reveal that U.S. weapons manufacturers have sold well in excess of $28.3 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the Yemen War ...
Samantha Power has been an outspoken advocate of US humanitarian intervention, promoting the Iraq war and defending human rights abusers like Israel and Saudi Arabia. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) President-elect Joe Biden has selected ...
British soldier Ahmed Al-Babati has been arrested for opposing the United Kingdom’s role in the Saudi-led war against Yemen. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) A British soldier has been arrested for opposing the United Kingdom’s ...
(David Swanson) By peace journalist Salem Bin Sahel from Yemen (@pjyemen on Instagram) and Terese Teoh from Singapore (@aletterforpeace), World BEYOND War, June 19, 2020 These letters are in Arabic here. Yemen war: Letter from a ...
A perfect deal is where all protagonists get something out of it. All oil-producing countries stand to gain if the oil price rebounds. In bare bones, the OPEC+ group led by Saudi Arabia and Russia ...
“Most royals are at severe risks of developing complications – poor diet, lack of exercise, age, all those factors play against many members of the monarchy I’m afraid. Evidently daily gatherings, outings and the coming ...
“I think they are surveilling not only those they know are dissidents, but those they fear may deviate from the Saudi leadership. They are particularly worried about what Saudi nationals will do when they are ...
From dumping toxic waste into the sea to littering Yemen’s farms with tons of unexploded cluster bombs, Saudi Arabia is creating a legacy so toxic in Yemen that experts believe it could take a century ...
The case of Al-Hathloul and the other women’s rights activists on trial in Saudi Arabia is a tremendous embarrassment for MBS, who has been putting an enormous effort into convincing his Western allies that he ...
Some 2,500 US troops have arrived at their new home for the foreseeable future, the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Amid rising tensions with Iran, the United States ...
“The boats from Obock, Djibouti, will continue to ply their trade; Ethiopians will continue to travel the Eastern Route into Saudi Arabia. No plans are afoot inside Ethiopia to be able to generate employment to ...
“I’ve been meeting with the Trump campaign people…we have a deal with Trump: my boss, His Highness, made a deal that if we help Trump get elected, he’s going to be harsh on Iran, he’s ...
Libya’s political future has yet to be decided, but it will deeply impact Europe’s future and the battle against Islamic radicalism. A stone’s throw away from Europe, Libya’s internal strife is ringing ever present in ...
An escalating campaign of U.S. drone strikes in Yemen in slowing a Houthi advance on al-Qaeda-held territory reports Ahmed Abdulkareem. MARIB, YEMEN (By: Ahmed Abdulkareem, Mintpress News) An escalating campaign of U.S. drone strikes in ...
In the first of a three-part series, Agha Hussein investigates efforts by wealthy Gulf Arab countries to ply post-war Syria away from Iran by investing heavily in its post-war reconstruction. (By: Agha Hussain, Mintpress News) ...
Within hours of a video file being sent by WhatsApp to Bezos “a massive and unauthorized exfiltration of data from Bezos’s phone began, continuing and escalating for months.” Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) ...
However Iran responds to the recent assassination of General Soleimani, Iranian officials are correct that U.S. influence in the region has deteriorated and will deteriorate further. Major General Hossein Salami, the chief of the Islamic ...
“The parties responsible for this, and other atrocities, must be held accountable.” Both the United Nations and the Saudi-led Arab military coalition in Yemen promised on Thursday to hold an investigation into a recent deadly ...
“Those who dispatched the death squad to Istanbul on a private jet and sought to sweep this murder under the rug, have been granted immunity.” A Saudi Arabian court ruling on the 2018 killing of ...
The U.S. pressed its case to the U.N. Security Council that Iran was behind attacks on Saudi oil facilities in September, while the U.N. is hesitant to rush to judgment. (MEMO) The US has shared ...
Peace in the Hodieda, according to officials, will help facilitate humanitarian efforts by providing a safe corridor in the port city. In an effort to accelerate implementation of the Hodieda deal, a ceasefire in the ...
The recent Pensacola shooting at a U.S. naval base by a Saudi lieutenant is a reminder of the dangers of U.S. Middle East policy. The brutal shooting at a U.S. Naval Base in Pensacola, Florida ...
“Once our leadership decides to attack the Zionist enemy, we will be ready to do so.” The Defense Minister of the Yemeni militant Houthi group, Major General Mohammad Al-Atefi, warned over the weekend that Houthis ...
“We should establish security in the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz through expanding our cooperation and preventing foreign powers to interfere.” – Iranian President Rouhani. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed on Tuesday his country’s willingness ...
President Rouhani announced the discovery of a huge new oilfield in Iran, but will Iran have any buyers as U.S. sanctions continue to scare off customers? Standing in the desert city of Yazd, Iranian President ...
For the second time since Monday, an assassination attempt targeted Ministers in the official Yemen government. A large explosion ripped through a convoy for Yemen Defense Minister Mohammad al-Maqdishi on Tuesday, which involved several ministerial ...
Conventional battlefields have been replaced by cyber warfare and the U.S. has already conducted two cyber attacks on Iran in 2019. The U.S. is believed to have launched at least two secretive cyber attacks on ...
“Russia sees the expansion of friendly and mutually beneficial ties with Saudi Arabia as particularly important.” On Monday, October 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a historic visit to Saudi Arabia, the first since 2007, ...
“Remember when Donald Trump tweeted that he was ‘trying to end the endless wars?’ That was yesterday.” (By Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Less than a day after President Donald Trump bragged to supporters at a ...
On the heels of reportedly successful talks between opposing factions in Yemen, the UAE has withdrawn troops from a key Yemen port city. Yemeni officials, speaking anonymously to Bloomberg, announced they observed the withdrawal of ...
At least one foreign agent simultaneously held a U.S. government appointment while being paid to represent Saudi interests as a foreign agent. (By Anna Massoglia, Center for Responsive Politics) Foreign influence and lobbying spending targeting the United States ...
“The greed of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup and BlackRock is insatiable.” Last year, top executives and investors protested the annual investment conference in Saudi Arabia known as ‘Davos in the Desert’ after the savage execution ...
As impeachment proceedings against Trump ramp up, could he turn to declaring war on Iran in a move to provide distraction? On CBS’s “60 Minutes,” the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the architect of ...
“It is unfathomable and unconscionable that the U.S.A. continues to feed the conveyor belt of arms flowing into Yemen’s devastating conflict.” (By Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) U.S. made bombs killed six Yemeni civilians on June 28, including ...
The Houthi drone strike on Aramco shows the shifting strategic balance in the Persian Gulf. It also shows that any escalation in this region threatens the global economy. The intricate war dance among the U.S., ...
“Since the US revoked waivers for even modest imports of Iranian oil, half a dozen tankers have been sabotaged or seized in the Persian Gulf, and America and Iran nearly went to war after Iran ...
If Americans fail to speak out now, we may discover too late that our failure to rein in our venal, warmongering ruling class has led us to the brink of World War III. On Saturday, ...
An attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities has renewed fears of a looming US-Iran conflict, despite claims of responsibility by Houthi rebels in Yemen. Devastating drone strikes on Saudi Arabia’s state-run oil facilities on Saturday ...
In response to an attack on Saudi oil facilities, President Trump has announced that the U.S. is locked and loaded to retaliate. U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on Monday that his country is ready to ...
If you want to identify the most reckless powers in our world today, look no further than Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America. There’s no point in dredging ...
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators condemned Saudi Arabia’s failure to provide financial aid to war-torn Yemen in a letter sent directly to the Saudi royal family. In a letter spearheaded by Sen. Chris Murphy ...
Saudi Arabia is moving forward with a uranium enrichment program, but can the U.S. embrace a nuclear Saudi Arabia after exiting the Iran Deal? While attending a conference in Abu Dhabi on Monday, Saudi Arabi’s ...
It is not enough to be moved by the tragedy in Yemen. Action is necessary. On September 1, bombers struck Dhamar Community College in Dhamar City, which is in Yemen’s southwest. The college has not ...
Previously, the Saudi-led coalition has come under sharp criticism by rights groups for killing hundreds of civilians during raids and attacks in Yemen. In a new fresh attack by the Saudi-led Arab military coalition in ...
Across the Islamic World, one in seven girls marry before the age of 18. But what if this status quo was to hide under layers of disingenuous religiosity and a tradition that still views women, ...
Thursday’s fighting in Yemen constituted the latest spate of violence between Saudi Arabia-backed government-loyal troops and the militias linked with the Southern Transitional Council. Saudi Arabian-backed Yemeni forces belonging to the internationally recognized government of ...
![Deputy Crown Prince, Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad Bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud participates in the Counter-ISIL Ministerial Joint Ministerial Plenary Session, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on July 21, 2016. [State Department Photo/Public Domain]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/mbs-288x180.jpg "Saudi Arabia to Host Media Forum One Year After Khashoggi Murder 44")
“The murder of Jamal Khashoggi caused extensive damage to Saudi Arabia’s international image, marking a real low point for a country that has one of the world’s worst press freedom records.” Saudi Arabia will stage ...
President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is off on a Middle East tour possibly ahead of an Arab states conference at Camp David. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi reiterated his country’s support for a Palestinian-Israeli peace ...
“Our operations will continue unabated, in response to crimes committed by the Saudi-led Arab military coalition.” The Houthi rebel-run Al Masirah TV channel reported on Thursday that a large-scale drone attack by the Houthi-linked Ansaru ...
“If you think Libya’s slave market was bad then let me tell you, I have seen worse. Children are being shipped off the coast of Yemen under military escort for the Gulf countries, and no ...
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