Saudi arabia News

On a visit to Bahrain US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has assured his country's Gulf Arab allies that the US will retain a strong military presence in the Persian Gulf following its interim agreement with Iran.

Riyadh - A seventh month amnesty period for undocumented immigrants to Saudi Arabia expired last month and now the government has been cracking down on illegal migrant workers.

New York - The November 24 "interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear program" reached between Iran and what is called p5+1 is important. And what happens now is important.

In the wake of the controversial deal brokered with Iran in Geneva over Iran's nuclear ambitions, Saudi Arabia, concerned about being "lied to," is opting for its own proactive foreign policy agenda.

Saudi Arabian writer Hamza Kashgari, 24, imprisoned since February 2012 on charges of apostasy for insulting the Prophet Muhammad on Twitter, has been released from jail.

A video, featuring a song which parodies Bob Marley’s ‘No woman, no cry’ and mocks the Saudi ban on women drivers has gone viral.

Riyadh - This weekend Saudi women with foreign licences will get behind the wheel starting tomorrow (Oct. 26). The women organizing the protests have posted photos on line of them driving in Saudi cities.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has tried to reassure Saudi Arabia that Washington shares Riyadh's goals of preventing a nuclear-armed Iran and bringing to an end the ongoing war raging in Syria.

Amnesty International has stated that Saudi Arabia has failed to address human rights concerns and on top of that has actually “ratcheted up the repression” since 2009.

The Arab League's chief, Nabil al-Arabi, seconded Saudi Arabia's discontentment with the United Nation's policies in the Middle East by espousing his own contention that the organization has failed in the Middle East.