Saudi arabia News

The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council has agreed upon the terms of a security pact which they hope will bring about an end with the dispute around the policies of GCC-member state Qatar.

Foreign Ministers of Arab states on the west side of the Persian Gulf are meeting in order to discuss the tensions between three Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states with their fellow member Qatar.

Syrian rebels seemed to have received at least 20 American TOW anti-tank missiles. The rebels who seem to have gotten their hands on such weaponry are said to be "moderates."

A week has passed since the GGC Arab states of the Persian Gulf recalled their ambassadors from Qatar. That crisis may continue and even get worse.

Iraq Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has directly accused Saudi Arabia and Qatar of attacking Iraq through proxies in Syria.

Saudi Arabia has declared the Muslim Brotherhood to be a terrorist mere days after withdrawing its ambassador from Qatar for that gulf states support for the Brotherhood.

The ambassadors of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have withdrawn their respective ambassadors against Qatar alleging that country of interfering in their internal affairs.

Riyadh - A female student in Saudi Arabia died of a heart attack after staff at her university allegedly refused to allow male paramedics to enter a women's-only campus to save her.

London - Saudi Arabia is now the world's fourth largest defense spender moving past the United Kingdom and France from seventh place. The statistics are from the latest report of the Institute for Strategic Studies in London (IIHS)

New York - The international war being waged inside of Syria has created a humanitarian crisis of staggering proportions. Estimates of numbers killed in the war since March 2011 range from 94,000 to 130,000.