The Guardian view on Saudi Arabia: in need of new leadership
The Guardian – Saudi Arabia is facing its biggest diplomatic crisis with the west since the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers – and…
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Saudi Arabia delivers $100 million pledged to U.S. as Pompeo lands in Riyadh
The New York Times – This summer, Saudi Arabia promised the Trump administration $100 million for American efforts to stabilize areas in…
US, Saudi trying to ‘whitewash’ Khashoggi murder: Fmr. US diplomat
Press TV – The administration of US President Donald Trump is trying to “whitewash” Saudi Arabia’s murder of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi,…
Israel pounds multiple positions in fresh offensive against Gaza
Press TV – Israeli warplanes have carried out fresh aerial assaults on Gaza in yet another act of aggression against the blockaded coastal…
‘Guilty until proven innocent’: Trump defends Saudi Arabia in disappearance of writer Jamal Khashoggi
NBC News – President Donald Trump Tuesday criticized rapidly mounting global condemnation of Saudi Arabia over the case of missing journalist Jamal…
Time to face up to emperor Bin Salman – He has no clothes
FNA – On Sunday, Saudi stocks endured their biggest fall in nearly four years over journalist Jamal Khashoggi who was murdered last…
Police found evidence in Saudi consulate that Khashoggi was killed there – Turkish official to AP
RT – A Turkish official told AP that police have found evidence inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul which confirms that journalist…
Will Khashoggi case spark Turkish-Saudi crisis?
Alwaght – Turkey and Saudi Arabia are both influential powers in the region. The rise of the Justice and Development Party in…
UN warns 12mn Yemenis may face worst famine in 100 years
Press TV – The UN’s food agency has urged Saudi Arabia and its allies to stop their devastating war on Yemen, saying…
Jamal Khashoggi: US secretary of state meets Saudi king for crisis talks
The Guardian | Bethan McKernan: Mike Pompeo meets King Salman amid reports Riyadh may admit journalist was killed in Istanbul consulate The…
Israeli forces wound dozens of Palestinian protesters in Gaza Strip
Press TV – Israel soldiers have wounded dozens of Palestinians who had held a protesting rally along the northern coast of the…
Saudis preparing to admit Jamal Khashoggi died during interrogation, sources say
CNN – The Saudis are preparing a report that will acknowledge that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death was the result of an…
German, French, British FMs issue statement on Khashoggi’s disappearance
MNA – The Foreign Ministers of Germany, France and Great Britain have issued a joint statement on disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi. The…
Syria: Takfiris refuse to leave Idlib buffer zone
Press TV – Al-Qaeda-lined Takfiri terrorists say they refuse to either leave a planned buffer zone in the northwestern Syrian province of…
Bush & Blair’s Iraq war was key that opened door to Syria’s current hell
RT | John Wight: If the pain of birth is the price of life, Syria’s birth as a truly independent nation has come…
‘Massacre in Syria’s Idlib is Iran’s red line’
Press TV – The potential massacre of civilians while trying to retake the last major stronghold of anti-government militants in Syria —…
US-led warplanes drop white phosphorus bombs on eastern Syria: Report
Press TV – The US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has reportedly dropped internationally-banned white phosphorus bombs on Syria’s troubled…
Saudi jets attack buses in Yemen’s Hudaydah, kill civilians
Press TV – At least 15 Yemenis have been killed in a Saudi airstrike in Hudaydah that has become a flashpoint of a…
Iranian media see Saudi-Turkey rift in Khashoggi case
Al-Monitor – Given that Saudi Arabia is Iran’s main regional rival, Iranian censors have allowed the Iranian media to extensively cover the…
US Senate passes anti-Hezbollah bills
Tasnim – The US Senate approved two bills that clear the way for new sanctions against the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah. The…
Amnesty ‘shocked’ by devastation caused by US strikes in Syria’s Raqqah
Press TV – Amnesty International’s new Secretary General Kumi Naidoo says he has been shocked by the horrific destruction and utter human…
Trump likely to block any attempts to sanction Saudis over missing journalist
Sputnik – US President Donald Trump is likely to block any sanctions that US Congress may try to impose on Saudi Arabia…
UN experts urge Saudi Arabia to swiftly release women’s rights activists
Press TV – Saudi Arabia must “immediately and unconditionally” release all women it has arrested and imprisoned on charges relating to their…
7 Palestinians killed, 112 injured by Israeli fire
Press TV – At least seven Palestinians have been killed and 112 others injured by Israeli fire during anti-occupation protests at the…
Turks tell U.S. officials they have audio and video recordings that support conclusion Khashoggi was killed
The Washington Post – The Turkish government has told U.S. officials that it has audio and video recordings that prove Washington Post…
1,600 int’l, domestic correspondents covering Arbaeean
IRNA — Spokesman for the headquarters of Arbaeen said that 1,600 foreign and domestic correspondents and 400 television networks from 43 countries…
Writer Khashoggi feared Saudi government before disappearing, friends say
Euronews | Kristina Jovanovski and Saphora Smith and F. Brinley Bruton and Dan De Luce with NBC News World News: Friends of the missing…
‘Yemenis target Saudi military boat in counter-strike’
Press TV – Yemeni naval forces have targeted and destroyed a Saudi military boat off the war-torn country’s northwestern coast, killing all aboard…
Turkish daily reveals identities of Saudis suspected of killing Khashoggi
Press TV – A Turkish newspaper has published the names and photos of 15 Saudis, including several officials, who are suspected of having…
Hariri hopes for speedy Lebanon govt. formation after concessions made
Press TV – Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri says all political sides have made concessions on their demands for posts in the…
Over 8,000 Yemeni dialysis patients on verge of death: Health minister
Press TV – Yemen’s health minister has warned that more than eight thousand hemodialysis patients will lose their lives if the Saudi-imposed blockade…
Saudis, authoritarian leaders inspired by Trump: Sanders
Press TV – Saudi Arabia and its de facto leader, crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, are among authoritarian entities “clearly inspired” by…
Israeli strikes in Syria to continue despite S-300 delivery, Netanyahu says
Press TV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has informed Russian officials that the Tel Aviv will continue to hit…
Turkey vows to put on trial all, including Saudi officials, tied to Khashoggi case
Press TV – An advisor to Turkey’s president has vowed that the country will prosecute all those involved in the suspected kidnapping…
Fugitive prince calls for civil disobedience to change Saudi regime
FNA – Saudi prince Khalid bin Farhan al-Saud, who has fled to Germany after the empowerment of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,…
Al-Jaafari: Presence of foreign forces in Syria illegitimate
IRNA – Syria’s permanent representative to the UN, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari affirmed on Monday that the presence of foreign forces on Syrian…
Saudi airstrikes leave five more civilians dead in southern Yemen
Press TV – At least five civilians have been killed when Saudi military aircraft carried out airstrikes against a residential area in…
Three Russian S-300PM battalion sets delivered to Syria free of charge — source
TASS – Russia has donated to Syria three battalion sets of S-300PM missile systems of eight launchers each, a military diplomatic source…
11 Palestinians wounded during Gaza fishing boat protest
Press TV – Eleven Palestinian protesters were wounded by Israeli fire during a protest along Gaza’s coast on Monday, according to the…
Foreign powers obstructing Lebanon government formation: Legislator
Press TV – The head of the parliamentary bloc of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has leveled strident criticism at foreign countries,…