Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia opened its first mangrove nursery on Wednesday, which is targeting to plant 50 million trees by 2030 in the fight against desertification, Anadolu Agency reports. John Pagano,...

Saudi Arabian authorities have detained five relatives of a US citizen, rights groups said on Wednesday, arguing that the detentions were retaliation for his family's failed lawsuit against the...

Saudi Arabia has officially responded to human rights concerns by the United Nations over the NEOM megacity project being constructed in the Kingdom, alleging that three men sentenced to...

Early this week, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said that his country's independence would never be complete as long as Palestine is occupied. Echoing the words of the late South...

The Barbie movie has ignited a worldwide social media trend coined 'Barbiecore'

The Central Bank of Egypt announced yesterday that remittances from Egyptians working abroad have decreased by 26.1 per cent this fiscal year. During the first nine months of the...

Footballer Sadio Mane has reportedly agreed to join Saudi Arabia's Al-Nasr Football Club, Saudi Okaz has reported. The newspaper quoted informed sources as saying that Al-Nasr was given until...

Qatar has manged to fend off competition from Saudi Arabia, UAE and China to secure a deal with Pakistan over the running of Islamabad Airport. The sale, via tender...

The department store has denied the reports saying Saudi's public fund owns a minority stake in the group that purchased the department store in 2022

Saudi Arabia's Al-Hilal Football Club has made history by offering a record €300 million ($332 million) to French striker and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) Captain, Kylian Mbappe. Italian football journalist Fabrizio Romano said...

Jordanian and Syrian army and intelligence chiefs met yesterday to discuss the ongoing smuggling of drugs over the Syria-Jordan border, in the first of a series of meetings to...

Qatar on Sunday announced the appointment of its first ambassador to the United Arab Emirates in more than six years after the UAE, along with Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, severed ties with...

This month, the Syrian pound recorded a historic collapse against the US dollar as its exchange rate hit the lowest ever, 12,0000 Syrian pounds to the dollar.

Authorities in Saudi Arabia seized more than six million narcotic pills concealed in sweets and nuts from a shipment coming from Oman and arrested a Saudi and a Syrian...

Citizens of Saudi Arabia can invite Muslim friends overseas to perform Umrah on new "personal visit visas," the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah announced on Thursday. In a social...

The Saudi Foreign Ministry on Friday summoned the chargé d'affaires of the Swedish Embassy in the Kingdom, handing him a protest note against the burning and desecration of copies...

The governments of Tunisia and Saudi Arabia signed a soft loan agreement worth $400 million and a financial grant of $100 million offered by Riyadh to help mitigate Tunis'...

Ending the Black Sea grain deal as announced this week would hit hard in numerous ways, warned Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, adding that Turkiye is already working to...

Some 22 countries have "formally" asked to join the BRICS group, while an equal number has informally expressed interest in joining the bloc, South Africa announced yesterday. BRICS, a...

The Netherlands has lifted its arms export restrictions off Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as it seeks to apparently reform the framework for its arms...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's three-nation Gulf tour has grabbed headlines, Anadolu Agency reports. The tour started with Saudi Arabia, followed by a visit to Qatar and then the...

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, privately threatened to journalists that he would impose sanctions on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last year, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has revealed....

Talks being mediated by Saudi Arabia and Turkiye on the repatriation of Ukrainian thousands of children taken to Russia since Moscow's invasion have been under way since at least...

Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, is due to arrive in major gas-producer, Qatar, on Tuesday for the final leg of a Gulf tour that has focused on securing future...

Saudi Arabia has provided a voluntary contribution of €1 million ($1.1 millio) to the Interpol Capabilities for Operational Relevance (I-CORE) program, the Saudi Gazette reported yesterday. A contribution agreement with the International...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan kicks off his Gulf tour in Jeddah, where he presented Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman with Turkiye's first domestically produced electric car 'Togg'

Well-known Saudi cleric, Sheikh Badr Al-Meshari, has been detained by the authorities for reasons which are currently not known, according to Saudi Arabian human rights organisation Prisoners of Conscious who announced...

French press revealed that Hugo Lloris, Tottenham's goalkeeper, rejected an offer from Saudi Arabia's Al-Hilal Football Club. The 36-year-old's contract with Tottenham runs until the summer of 2024, but...

The five-nation group on Lebanon, which comprises the US, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt, said on Monday they had discussed several measures against politicians and groups who were...

In a viral video, a group of Saudi men are seen performing a dance which combines footballer Christiano Ronaldo's famous 'Siuu' goal celebration with their traditional 'majroor' dance.

Saudi Arabia is reportedly seeking to raise $2.7 billion (10bn riyals) to proceed with the development of its ambitious smart megacity project, Neom, according to Bloomberg. The report cites...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today embarked on a visit to Saudi Arabia to enhance relations with the Gulf kingdom. Erdogan will be welcomed by Saudi King Salman Bin...