Saudi Arabia

Amid mounting criticism of Saudi Arabia over its human rights record, a new report by a nonprofit organization shows that the number of beheadings in the kingdom during the first quarter of 2018 rose by over 70 percent compared to the same period last year.

Yemeni forces have launched a missile strike on an airport in Saudi Arabia’s Jizan on Wednesday, killing six Saudi troops.

A senior Iranian journalist and commentator says the Syrian army must fire missiles at Riyadh and Abu Dhabi in retaliation for the airstrikes on Syria conducted by a US-led coalition supported by Saudis and Emiratis.

A senior Iranian cleric has called on Saudi clergymen and Muslim scholars to fulfil their religious obligation by warning the novice rulers of Saudi Arabia against making provocative decisions about regional issues.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has dismissed as baseless the accusations levelled against the country in a recent statement by the Arab Quartet Committee. 

A senior Iranian commentator says Saudi Arabia has spent a hefty amount of money to purchase the US-made cutting-edge patriot missiles but what it has received cannot intercept the missiles fired by Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters at the Kingdom.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says the current rulers of Saudi Arabia have turned themselves into symbols of aggression and crime in the Middle East.

A senior Iraqi analyst says Saudi Arabia should extricate itself from the quagmire of anti-Iran delusions created by the United States.

The latest move by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to recognize Israel as a state has been described as the climax of the three-year covert and secret relations between Riyadh and Tel Aviv, which can lead to the creation of an anti-Israel coalition by the Islamic states.

The 32-years-old hair to the Saudi throne has contradicted his own account on the connection between the House of Saud and the Wahhabi ideology.

A leading Iraqi jurist and senior analyst says Saudi Arabia should first get rid of the quagmire of Yemen before threatening Iran with war.

Ambitious Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been at the centre of media attention for quite some time now due to his unexpected behaviour and comments.

Reports suggest that some Arab countries backed by the US and Saudi Arabia are trying to bring Syria back to the Arab League, a move which could be seen as part of the “soft policy” adopted by Washington and its regional allies.

Yemenis from all walks of life have held rallies and issued separate statements vehemently condemning the abuse of a Yemeni woman by a Sudanese mercenary in western al-Hudaydah province.

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman has confessed that Riyadh is spreading Wahhabism ideology in the region at the request of the west.

The Arab countries that imposed a blockade on Qatar have asked Doha to give up its right to host the football world cup in 2022 in exchange for lifting of the siege, a Qatari official claimed.

Senior Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian has lashed out at the remarks made by Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, who called Iran and Turkey “evil” states.

Jeremy Corbyn has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to protest Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen during the visit of the kingdom’s crown prince to London.

Iran’s Justice Minister Alireza Avaei says the blockade imposed on Yemen by Saudi Arabia has pushed about 17 million civilians to the brink of a devastating famine.

A high-ranking Yemeni official says the Saudi-led coalition has launched the fourth phase of its invasion of Yemen, adding the coalition has recruited Afghan and Pakistani forces to press ahead with its war on the impoverished nation.

Men in a number of tribes in southern Saudi Arabia are banned forever from seeing the faces of their female family members including their wives.

The Yemeni forces on Tuesday morning targeted the King Khalid international airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by a long-range ballistic missile, media reports said.

Yemen’s Ansarullah movement says it has developed a new type of missile which could change the trend of war in the future.

Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Waleed bin Talal has been reportedly freed from detention more than two months after he was taken into custody in a luxurious hotel.

A criminal court in Kuwait has sentenced a Kuwaiti journalist and activist to five years in prison for ‘publishing insulting pieces against Saudi Arabia.’