Saudi Arabia will kick-start operations on the country’s longest railway, running 2,750-km between capital Riyadh and the northern city of Gurayat, on December 24 2017.
Saudi Air Navigation Services Company is set to employ women as air traffic controllers for the first time after the Saudi Academy of Civil Aviation...
Saudi Arabia could emerge as a global competitor in knowledge-based industries. It’s an achievable vision, but it requires the policy details to be right, not just...
The new academic year 2017-18 kicked off on Sunday with more than 6 million students in different levels of public education attending the first day...
Curbs on spending and improved oil revenues have supported Saudi Arabia’s government finances in the first half of 2017, with clear indications of government achieving...
Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani recieved Saudi Minister of State for Gulf Affairs Thamer al-Sabhan on Saturday as part of a Saudi offer of mediation between...
Energy-subsidy reform is a key part of Saudi Arabia’s plan to overhaul the economy, along with the sale of stakes in state-owned entities, including the...
SADARA Chemical Company, the largest chemical complex ever built in a single phase, announced the commercial start-up of its toluene di isocyanate (TDI) facility. The...
Ghassan Al-Sulaiman, Governor of Monsha’at previously announced that the authority would also finalize its national plan for SMEs by the end of the year. These...
Social media platform Snapchat has blocked access to Al Jazeera content in Saudi Arabia.
Snapchat said it was asked by the Saudi authorities to remove the...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson discussed cooperation on the Syrian crisis, Middle East issues, and the agreement to...
Nimruz’s provincial capital, Zaranj, is like no other Afghan town. As Afghanistan’s smuggling capital, it houses about 160,000 permanent residents, but its contours are shaped...
Kuwait has ordered North Korea’s ambassador to leave within a month as the Gulf country downgraded diplomatic relations with Pyongyang, a North Korean diplomat in...
The internal debate regarding the Trump administration's policy towards Iran is coming to a head. A sensible – and indeed significantly improved – American approach is now competing with...