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  • Syria
    Academics and Archaeologists Fight to Save Syria’s Artifacts

    Scholars can do little to stop the fighting and looting, but they have created blogs, websites, Facebook pages, and Twitter accounts to monitor the destruction and raise awareness about it. By sharing excavation records, scholars outside the Middle East have helped their counterparts in the Arab world to compile online lists of missing or stolen objects.

  • WATER
    Riyadh to get more water next year

    Riyadh currently gets 2.2 million cubic meters of water daily thanks to projects supported by Riyadh Gov. Prince Turki bin Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi Press Agency reported Saturday. “Support has been given to the water and electricity sectors through the use of advanced technology and the adoption of international standards,” the prince said in a statement to the Saudi Press Agency.

  • Counter-Terrorism
    Saudi counterterror donation sends ideological message

    "I think it's becoming clear that Saudi officials are frustrated with the lingering perception among some – especially in the West – that the Saudi government helped create ISIS and that it supports it financially," says Fahad Nazer, former analyst at the Saudi embassy in Washington. "I think the Saudis view themselves as being at the forefront of the global effort to combat terrorism. This donation and the center itself, which was proposed by [Saudi] King Abdullah in 2005, are indicative of  what appears to be a sincere commitment to fight Al Qaeda and its affiliates.

  • Energy
    Libya Plans to Resume Exports From its Largest Oil Port Next Week

    Libya plans to restart exports from its largest oil port Es Sider next week after a one-year interruption, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday. The news, which comes after shipments restarted this week from another key terminal, Ras Lanuf, shows Libyan oil exports are set to gain momentum after a slower-than-expected restart.

  • Gaza
    Prince Saud: Israel has no right to self-defense as an occupier

    Saudi Arabia has said that the actions of the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, cannot be equated with Israel’s mass killings.

  • Nitaqat
    1.5 million Saudis now work in private sector

    There were almost 1.5 million Saudis employed in the private sector in 2013, an increase of more than 332,000 compared with 2012, according to data released by the Ministry of Labor.

  • Gaza
    Saudi Arabia and the third Gaza war

    Saudi Arabia has remained quiet during the current Gaza war, working instead through Egypt.

  • Religious Freedom
    U.S. Religious-Freedom Report Criticizes Russia, Saudis

    The Russian government used laws banning “extremism” to restrict religious freedoms, according to the U.S. State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report for 2013. The annual report, mandated by a law that lets the U.S. sanction governments that engage in “particularly severe” violations of religious freedom, said the year saw the “largest displacement of religious communities in recent memory.”

  • EID Al-FITR
    Riyadh welcomes Eid with fireworks

    Colorful fireworks display lit up the the pitch-black skies over seven locations in the Saudi capital on Monday night as residents of all ages expectantly welcomed the Eid Al-Fitr holidays.

  • Putin
    The Malaysia Airlines crash is the end of Russia’s fairy tale

    Before there is any further discussion of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, it’s important that one point be made absolutely clear: This plane crash is a result of the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine, an operation deliberately designed to create legal, political and military chaos. Without this chaos, a surface-to-air missile would not have been fired at a passenger plane.