Saudi King and Crown Prince Condole Kuwait
In a heartfelt gesture of solidarity, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman expressed their deepest condolences to the Emir of Kuwait on Monday following the passing of Sheikh More »
Putin and Abbas Discuss Gaza Crisis
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday during Abbas’ visit to Russia. Arriving on Monday, Abbas aims to discuss the ongoing Gaza conflict with More »
Saudi Arabia Voices Strong Support for Gaza Peace Initiatives
Saudi Arabia has firmly aligned itself with the recent joint statement made by President Joe Biden of the United States, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt, and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, More »
Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »
Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity
:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »
Category Archives: Columns
Dark clouds over Jeddah
By : Mahmoud Ahmad It looks like a cloud is really hanging over the city of Jeddah. For every time it rains chaos reigns in the whole city with excessive water logging in various major nodal points such that the
No such thing as ‘good terrorists’ and ‘bad terrorists’
By : Harun Yahya Turkey has always been an important country. Strategically placed between Asia and Europe, it has seen its fair share of conflicts and political games and plots, all for control of these important lands. Now almost 100
Iran torn between historic Europe visit and Syria talks
By : Camelia Entekhabi-Fard It was supposed to be “historic, charming” and was “highly anticipated” – President Hassan Rowhani’s official state visit to Europe to normalize Iran’s relations with the West after many years of turbulence and tension. Rowhani had
Celebrating sham democracy
By : Ramzy Baroud Writing in the New York Times in an article entitled, “Myanmar Generals Set the State for Their Own Exit”, Thomas Fuller expressed his and the media’s failure to recognize the total fraud that is Burmese democracy.
World must act to destroy this terrorist disease
By : Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor Paris is in mourning. We are all in mourning for those who thronged the glorious French capital on Friday evening little knowing it would be their last. All except the terrorists and their brain-diseased
A new Cold War in the Middle East?
By : Dr. Azeem Ibrahim When Russia attacked Georgia in 2008, commentators gingerly raised the prospect of a new Cold War between Russia and the West. In 2014, when Russia’s client in Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, was toppled from power by
No mercy for Daesh
By : Linda S. Heard On the very same day that Paris was attacked by soulless scum who’ve achieved new heights in bestiality, US President Obama praised the killing of British decapitator “Jihadi John” and patted himself on the back
Apologizing to Iran
By : Abdulrahman al-Rashed I am not surprised that Iranian President Hassan Rowhani has demanded that the United States apologize for its past behavior before opening embassies in each others’ capitals. Washington seems desperate to gain Tehran’s friendship, and is
The Vienna plan for Syria: Fighting terrorism with politics
By : Raghida Dergham Momentum is the theme chosen for the second Vienna meeting to address the Syrian crisis. With the participation of the five U.N. Security Council permanent member states, major regional powers, and with Russian-American leadership that the
Friday 13th: the price France had to pay for doing what’s right!
By : Faisal J. Abbas Paris will never be the same after last night, and as the French mourn their dead – and we all mourn with them – the reality is that Friday 13 November will inevitably leave a
Shocking, senseless and cowardly Paris attacks
By : Grand Mufti Shawki Allam I was as shocked as any sensible human being would have been when I learned about the senseless, heinous, appalling and cowardly act that took place in Paris this week. This attack is shocking,
Is ISIS now stronger than ever?
By : Brooklyn Middleton The highly sophisticated terrorist attacks, which saw multiple suicide bombers armed with AK47s strike six sites in Paris and indiscriminately massacre over 100 civilians, likely will trigger concerns that ISIS militant group is stronger than ever.
Growth, justice for all
By : Recep Tayyip Erdogan This week, the leaders of the G-20 are meeting in Antalya, Turkey, to discuss a long list of pressing issues, foremost among them a series of serious economic and geopolitical challenges. The G-20, whose members
Saudi society encouraged to fight corruption
By : Samar Fatany Institutionalized corruption and the erosion of our Islamic principles of integrity and the values of honesty and trustworthiness were the subject of research conducted by the King Abdullah Institute for Research and Consulting Studies. The National
Paris must not do what Washington did after 9/11
By : Dr. John C. Hulsman It is early, very early, to make any definitive statements about the Paris terror attacks of last night. But as I used to say—in the countless counter-terror meetings I attended in Washington following 9/11—I
Dr Iryani and Yemen’s need to fill the void
By : Manuel Almeida On Sunday, as Yemenis in the southeast coast and the beautiful island of Socotra prepared to face the second of two cyclones that brought more rain than what Yemen gets in a decade, news emerged that
Paris attacks, a strike on France’s values!
By : Mohamed Chebarro France is again in the eye of the storm. It’s been a long year since the attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in the center of Paris. A long year in which France was diplomatically and
Money will buy Israel weapons but not security
By : Yossi Mekelberg If proof was required that personal antipathies are secondary to political interests in the world of diplomacy, it was amply provided in the meeting on Monday between U.S. President Barak Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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