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  • Saudi-Lebanon
    Saudi Arabia waiting on new president for $3B grant to Lebanon

    The arms deal is “not advancing.”

  • UN
    Sweden to Recognize State of Palestine

    The U.N. General Assembly approved the de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine in 2012 but the European Union and most EU countries, have yet to give official recognition.

  • Instability in the Middle East
    Opinion: Islamic State Leads Mideast Into Warlord Era as Nations Dissolve

    The Middle East may be sliding toward a warlord era, with nation-states increasingly struggling to control all their territory and millions living under the rule of emergent local chiefs and movements.

  • Missing Saudi in California
    FBI assisting in search for missing CSUN student, Saudi national Abdullah Alkadi

    Alkadi’s two cousins and a friend, all of whom were Abdullah’s roommates, last saw him at their home in the 9900 block of Reseda Boulevard on Sept. 17. He was reported missing early the next morning, his brother Ahmed Alkadi has said, adding that it was very uncharacteristic of his brother to disappear without being in contact with any family members.

  • ISIS and Air Strikes
    Islamic State Dispersing Makes U.S Adapt Targets

    “Yes, they’re blending in more” with the population and “yes, they’re dispersing, and yes, they aren’t communicating quite as openly or as boldly as they once were,” Rear Admiral John Kirby told reporters yesterday at the Pentagon. “That’s a good thing, because if they aren’t operating as freely, then they aren’t as free to achieve their goals.”

  • Energy
    Mideast Turmoil Keeps Gasoline at 45 Cents in Oil States

    Ministers from six Arab Gulf nations delayed action to curtail the support when they met Sept. 11 in Kuwait, Ali Al-Omair, Kuwaiti Oil Minister, said that day. State-run Saudi Arabian Oil Co. warned in May that it will have “unacceptably low levels” of oil to sell in the next two decades if domestic power use keeps rising at 8 percent annually. The region currently supplies 24 percent of the world’s crude.

  • Global Connectivity Index
    Saudi Arabia ranks 19th globally in creating a competitive ICT market

    The findings detail 25 developing and emerging countries, which account for 78 percent of global GDP and 68 percent of the world’s population. It reviews 10 industries including finance, manufacturing, education, transportation and logistics, providing a quantitative assessment of connectivity and its value from both national and industrial perspectives.

  • Global Oil Markets
    Oil Set for Biggest Quarterly Drop Since 2012 on Adequate Supply

    “There’s plenty of supply but no demand,” said Michael Hewson, a London-based market analyst at CMC Markets Plc, who forecasts that Brent could drop to $90 a barrel and WTI fall as low as $85 next quarter. “We have weak growth, with China and Europe slowing down, while U.S. air-strikes are protecting oil supplies in the Middle East. The momentum is certainly for a lower oil price.”

  • Crisis in Yemen
    Saudi Arabia, Iran and the ‘Great Game’ in Yemen

    Reminiscent of the "Great Game" played out in Afghanistan between Great Britain and Russia more than a hundred years ago, Saudi Arabia and Iran are engaged in their own decades-long strategic rivalry for power and influence in the Middle East, stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf and Arabian Sea. It is built mostly along sectarian and ideological lines - Saudi Arabia as the leader of the Sunni Muslim world, and Iran as the leader of the Shia Muslim world.

  • Shi'a Unrest
    Saudi Shi’ite dissident dies after clash with police – media

    A Saudi Arabian wanted for his role in violent protests calling for more rights for the Shi'ite Muslim minority has died from injuries sustained in a shootout with police on Friday, local media reported on Sunday. The Sunni-ruled kingdom has been searching for a number of citizens suspected of involvement in anti-government violence in the Eastern Province, where a substantial number of the country's Shi'ite Muslim minority live.