Saudi Arabia

A recent report by an Israeli TV station revealed that Saudi Arabia would allow Israeli jets to use its airspace to attack Iran, demonstrating the clandestine strategic alliance between Saudi Arabia and Israel. As the Times of Israel reported in...

The official coming to power of the Saudi King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has invoked numerous comments by experts, journalists, and politicians. Many a predicting, like with tea leaves, how Saudi policy will change now and what direction the new king will take...

Interesting news came from the foggy shores of Albion. The British newspaper The Telegraph, which has repeatedly been noted to be in close ties with the American capital, again decided to stand up for its big brother and scare the world with new tales about the...

Late at night on April 17 the Arab media outlets reported that a mysterious meeting of foreign ministers of the Council of the Arab States of the Persian Gulf had succeeded. The outlets stated that the parties involved "...

The recent dismissal of Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan is a significant development in the region, but not one that signals a fundamental change. Although the sacking of the man long known as “Bandar Bush” represents the departure of an infamous...

US President Barack Obama's recent visit to Saudi Arabia confirms what many even causal political observers have begun to suspect regarding recent US political history, that Washington's values aren't just nonpartisan, driven entirely by special...

The incidents preceding and following the Saudi government’s decision to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a “terrorist” organization are symptomatic of the growing division within the “Sunni” Arab world - a ‘world’ that is pitted against the “Shia” world is...

While human right crusades are dominated by headlines involving the "homophobic" Russian government and tales of homosexuals being strung up across Iran, there is a larger...

After the political changes that occurred in the 1990s and the collapse of the socialist camp, the White House has been striving to create a unipolar world and impose its own vision of the world order, disregarding not only the norms of international law, but human values, as well...

The relationship between Saudi Arabia and the west, primarily the United States, has always been a critical component of the Saudi political policy. However, the recent changes to the strategy undertaken by Washington and its various European allies to resolve both the Syrian...