Shortly after a promising ceasefire and troop pullout deal was reached for the Yemen port city of Hodeidah, tensions escalate between Saudi Arabia and Houthi rebels in Yemen. In recent weeks, the Houthi rebel group ...
“This is a strong message, I think, that our values must guide our foreign policy.” On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representative passed three resolutions to block President Donald Trump’s plan to sell precision-guided munitions ...
Nicki Minaj is scheduled to perform in Saudi Arabia, a nation that beheaded five men in April for admitting to sexual relations with other men. The Human Rights Foundation is advising Nicki Minaj to cancel ...
An airport in southern Saudi Arabia was attacked by Houthi rebel forces over the weekend for the fourth time in a month. The Yemen-based, Houthi-linked Ansar Allah militant group claimed responsibility early on Tuesday for ...
“For a long time there were questions as to whether or not Saudi Arabia and other countries were sponsoring terror. You have absolutely stopped and I really appreciate that and the world really appreciates it.” ...
“There is a complete disconnect between EU principles and its image and enforcing any coherent policy concerning arms exports.” The British government gave the green light to arms sales to Israel in 2018 worth $17 ...
“There is credible evidence, warranting further investigation of high-level Saudi Officials’ individual liability, including the Crown Prince’s.” “Mr. Khashoggi’s killing constituted an extrajudicial killing for which the State of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is ...
In 2017, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) created a special unit — the Iran Mission Center — to focus attention on the U.S. plans against Iran. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was adamant ...
“According to the officials, since Friday, the White House has been holding incessant discussions involving senior military commanders, Pentagon representatives and advisers to President Donald Trump.” Tensions between the United States and Iran escalated on ...
“Secretary Pompeo gives zero proof but insists that Iran is responsible for ship attacks in Gulf of Oman. Lies, lies, and more lies to make a case for war.” In a press conference that immediately evoked ...
“The breaking up of the sit-in was one of the main points on the agenda that was discussed. Unless he got the green light from his regional allies he would not have been able to ...
Houthi rebels in Yemen conducted a second attack on Saudi Arabian soil in less than a month. The Saudi-led Arab coalition in Yemen said on Wednesday that Houthi rebels in Yemen fired a missile on ...
He was arrested in September 2014 and moved to the Dar al-Mulahaza juvenile detention center in al-Dammam city. Reports stated he was held in solitary confinement for a month while being subject to inhumane beatings ...
The UNDP is giving 72 vehicles to an agency controlled by Houthi rebels, prompting the Yemen government to accuse the UNDP of favoritism and worsening the situation in Yemen. The internationally-recognized government of Yemen strongly ...
“It’s an enemy of women.” “In Saudi Arabia, citizens and residents can use Absher, an online government platform, to access Interior Ministry services. Absher comes as a mobile app available for iPhones and Android phones, ...
After declaring the defeat of ISIS in Syria, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia seem to be beefing up security forces in Eastern Syria. Saudi Arabia plans to create a military group in eastern Syria with ...
“Targeting civil facilities that involve civilians will be confronted with all possible means of deterrence at the disposal of the Arab military coalition.” The Saudi-led Arab military coalition fighting in Yemen announced on Thursday, May ...
“They want to make an example of us because it’s the first time in France that there have been leaks like this.” French investigative journalists are facing imprisonment for exposing, through the use of an ...
The U.K. says peace in Yemen is nearing as the UAE gives an ominous warning. UAE’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Qerqash, said Wednesday that the Saudi-led military coalition for Yemen will respond forcefully to ...
“Carrying out acts of sabotage on commercial and civilian vessels and threatening the safety and lives of those on board is a serious development.” (Newsclick.In) Saudi Arabia said on Monday two of its oil tankers ...
Egypt’s decision to lift the travel ban for Umrah comes as Cairo attempts to mediate the ongoing dispute between the Islamist Hamas party and the Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. For over four ...
“Trump has shamefully vetoed our bipartisan effort to end the unconstitutional US-Saudi war in Yemen, which has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” President Trump issued the second veto of his presidency on Tuesday, derailing ...
“Apparently things are not going fast enough with new arms deliveries to the Yemen war coalition.” Germany is selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who are involved in the Yemen ...
“President Trump, I urge you to sign the resolution Congress passed last week ending U.S. support for this conflict. Yemen needs humanitarian aid, not more bombs,” tweeted Sen. Bernie Sanders. (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) ...
“More and more democratically-elected leaders no longer see the media as part of democracy’s essential underpinning, but as an adversary to which they openly display their aversion.” Amal Clooney, international rights lawyer and the wife ...
“The whistleblowers who came forward have warned of conflicts of interest among top White House advisers that could implicate federal criminal statutes.” President Donald Trump has approved six authorizations for American companies to conduct nuclear-related ...
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, both party to the international offensive in Yemen, together make up around 28 percent of the US global arms sale. (Peoples Dispatch) A recent report by the Stockholm International ...
“If true, these new reports raise grave questions about what derogatory information career officials obtained about Mr. Kushner to recommend denying him access to our nation’s most sensitive secrets.” On March 28, 2019, the Senate ...
A new report by Save the Children stated that an average of 37 Yemeni children had been killed or injured every month by foreign bombs in 2018. (Peoples Dispatch) As the war in Yemen enters ...
White House Advisor Jared Kushner’s Middle East peace proposal allegedly included a land swap plan where Jordan would receive Saudi Arabian land if Jordan turned over land to the Palestinians. Jared Kushner’s proposal to make ...
Germany is extending its arms sales ban on Saudi Arabia but only until the end of March. Germany first announced its decision to impose a ban on arms sales to oil-rich Saudi Arabia last October, ...
Saudi prince Mohammad bin Salman inked multiple billion dollar deals on his Asia tour with India, Pakistan and China. While the West may still be somewhat wary of its relationship with Saudi Arabia and Saudi ...
A new House investigation is looking into the Trump administration’s push to transfer sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, possibly in violation of U.S. law. According to a recently released report prepared for Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, ...
When will Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism be called to account for its zealotry and human rights abuses? Addressing the nation during his State of the Union speech, President Donald Trump further affirmed his determination to ...
The UN wrapped up a preliminary investigation into the Khashoggi murder despite frustration over lack of access. A U.N.-led team, headed by French diplomat Agnes Callamard, sent to Turkey to investigate the killing of Saudi ...
The 39-year-old woman was executed earlier this week on charges of murdering her employer. Rights organizations have long criticized the horrible conditions in which domestic workers are forced to work in Saudi Arabia, with the ...
The United Nations (UN) will officially lead an international inquiry into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an opinion writer for the Washington Post. UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard will stay in Turkey from ...
A Saudi prosecutor announced his intention to seek the death penalty for five out of the 11 suspects in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a trial held in Riyadh Thursday. The Saudi Press ...
A major step forward came in Sweden behind closed doors, where the Yemeni government and Houthi rebel group agreed to a prisoner swap and truce in the key port of Hudaydah. On Thursday, the first peace ...
The UK is considering using taxpayer money to fund a new Aramco project in Malaysia bringing a conflict of ethics into question. Should human rights violations, murdering journalists and bombing Yemen disqualify you from taxpayer ...
Edward Snowden told listeners via video conference that Khashoggi was tracked via a software program called Pegasus. The investigation of the alleged murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi continues as new information has emerged that ...
After the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, multiple Western nations called for a pause in arms exports to Saudi Arabia but why doesn’t the humanitarian crisis in Yemen illicit the same response? The Swiss government recently ...
Only a few months ago, world leaders fawned over Saudi Arabia’s young prince Mohammed bin Salman – a grand reformer the world long awaited. Those voices have now fallen silent. Saudi Arabia murdered Jamal Khashoggi, ...
The WWE recently announced they were going forward with the Crown Jewel event, despite mounting pressure after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. Despite domestic and international pressure for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) to cancel the November 2nd ...
Outrage over Jamal Khashoggi’s murder has sparked a movement to suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s role in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey generated intense reactions in the United States and ...
In August, President Donald Trump had the following to say about the media during an interview with Fox News: No, not at all. But the fake news is, and the fake news is comprised of ...
Saudi Arabia has officially claimed that Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death was a result of a fist fight during a discussion that “did not go as required.” Hours before Riyadh came up with what it ...
Will the alleged murder of Jamal Khashoggi bring down Saudi Arabia’s beloved Prince Mohammed bin Salman? The biggest falls often come from the most unlikely of crises. Just as one fruit-seller in Tunisia, Mohamed Bouazizi, brought ...
Saudi Arabia is destroying religious and cultural sites across the country, but one group, the Al Baqee Organization, is fighting to preserve a heritage. October is not a good month for Saudi Arabia … but ...
Turkey Police confirmed this Tuesday that it found evidence in Saudi consulate that Khashoggi was killed there. It all began on October 2, when Jamal Khashoggi, one of the Washington Post’s most prominent columnists and ...