Iran Guards Member Begins Work As Iraq Ambassador
In a sign of the growing regional influence of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, a close advisor to its foreign operations commander ...
Tag: Saudi Arabia
US Pentagon Chief Meets Saudi King With Iran In Focus
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis met Saudi King Salman on Wednesday, beginning a series of talks to reinvigorate the Riyadh-Washington ...
Mattis In Riyadh To Boost US-Saudi Alliance
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is in Saudi Arabia Wednesday to reinvigorate the Riyadh-Washington alliance, with both seeing a common ...
Oil Output Cuts Pressure Mideast Economic Growth
Economic growth in Saudi Arabia and most other Arab oil exporters will slow this year following production cuts aimed at ...
Qatar and Philippines Sign ‘$200m Contracts’
Qatar and the Philippines have signed trade agreements worth $200 million during the final leg of President Rodrigo Duterte's Gulf ...
Saudi Woman Fleeing To Australia Is Forced Back To Kingdom
A young Saudi woman who was seeking asylum in Australia was stopped on a layover in the Philippines and returned ...
Facebook Disrupts Suspected Spam Operation
Facebook on Friday said it disrupted an international fake account operation that was firing off inauthentic 'likes' and bogus comments ...
‘They Will Kill Me’
Activists feared Friday for the safety of a young Saudi woman they say was returned to the kingdom against her ...
Rights Group Slams Yemen Journalist’s Death Sentence
Reporters Without Borders said Friday it was "appalled" at a death sentence handed to a veteran journalist by a court ...
Rights Group Slams Yemen Journalist’s Death Sentence
Reporters Without Borders said Friday it was "appalled" at a death sentence handed to a veteran journalist by a court ...
Facebook Disrupts Suspected Spam Operation
Facebook on Friday said it disrupted an international fake account operation that was firing off inauthentic "likes" and bogus comments ...
Activist Demands Iran Olympics Ban Over ‘sexual Apartheid’
Iranian human rights activist Darya Safai on Friday demanded sports sanctions against her country as punishment for banning women from ...
Pentagon Chief To Travel Next Week To Middle East, Africa
US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis is heading to the Middle East and Africa next week for a series of ...
Filipino Expats In Gulf Look To Hardman Duterte
With more than a million Filipino workers spread across Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar, it is small wonder that President ...
Saudi Raises $9 Bn In First Global Islamic Bond Issue
Saudi Arabia raised $9 billion in its first global Islamic bond issue, the government announced on Thursday, a move analysts ...
Rebel Court Sentences Yemen Journalist To Death
A Yemeni court in the rebel-held capital has sentenced a veteran journalist to death on charges of spying for neighbouring ...
Philippine’s Duterte Pulls Back From Spratlys Flag Vow
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday pulled back from a vow to place his country's flag on an island in ...
Philippines Says Saudi Arabia Still Needs Its Workers
Saudi Arabia will still need even more Filipino workers despite its "Saudization" policy, Manila's labour secretary said Wednesday following a ...
First Woman On Trial In Saudi Over Shiite Protests
The trial has begun in Saudi Arabia of the first woman accused of involvement in protests in a Shiite-majority area ...
Syria War: Russian Officers ‘could Face Sanctions’
G7 foreign ministers will attempt to agree a common position on the Syrian conflict, before the US secretary of state ...