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  • Labor
    Shortage of Saudi women for textiles, tailoring job

    The Ministry of Labor faces a shortage of qualified Saudi women to replace expatriates in the textiles and tailoring industries, al-Watan reported.

  • Women Driving
    Saudi extends detention of women drivers

    Two Saudi women detained nearly a week ago for violating the kingdom's female driving ban were ordered held for 25 more days on Sunday, a relative told The Associated Press.

  • Internet Media
    7 ways Saudi Arabia is silencing people online

    Raif Badawi is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Saudi Arabia, mainly for setting up a website. We talk to another local blogger – who has to remain anonymous for their own safety – about different tactics the authorities use to silence people online.

  • U.S. Energy
    Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General

    The email exchange from October 2011, obtained through an open-records request, offers a hint of the unprecedented, secretive alliance that Mr. Pruitt and other Republican attorneys general have formed with some of the nation’s top energy producers to push back against the Obama regulatory agenda, an investigation by The New York Times has found.

  • Family Owned Companies
    A Blow to Saudi Arabia’s Family Firms

    Family-owned companies are among the most significant pillars for the development of the Saudi economy. They account for a significant proportion of the Kingdom’s large and medium-sized enterprises. In previous years, these family-owned businesses have made striking improvements in the way they are managed following a wave of problems, failures and bankruptcies that hit some of them as a result of disputes over inheritance after the death of their founders.

  • Education
    UC Berkeley professor criticizies Saudi university’s recruitment process of world’s top researchers

    It was enough to inspire Pachter to conduct his own review of the newly minted rankings. His inquiry revealed that KAU had aggressively recruited professors from a list of top scientists with the most frequently referenced papers, often referred to as highly cited researchers.

  • U.S. Secretary of Defense
    Obama to nominate next secretary of defense tomorrow

    Current and former officials say that Obama will nominate Ashton B. Carter, a physicist and former academic who previously served as the Pentagon’s second highest ranking official, for the job.

  • Pakistani Taliban
    Pakistani Taliban squeezed by Afghan revolt, U.S. drone strikes

    Pakistani Taliban militants holed up in Afghanistan are being squeezed by U.S. drone strikes and a revolt against them, a trend that could disrupt the insurgents' capability to strike in Pakistan. For years, Pakistani Taliban commanders fighting the Pakistani state have been hiding in remote areas of east Afghanistan, plotting attacks and recruiting.

  • Islamic State
    Saudi FM: fighting ISIS in Syria requires boots on the ground

    Countering terrorism in Syria will take a long time and requires combat troops on the ground, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saudi al-Faisal told an international conference of the partner countries in the coalition against ISIS held in Brussels on Wednesday.

  • Syria
    200,000 dead? Why Syria’s rising death toll is so divisive

    But this new figure is also a reminder of how little we really know about the death toll in Syria -- and why the figures we do have can become politically controversial. International bodies have publicly struggled to count the dead in Syria. At the beginning of this year, the United Nations announced it would stop updating its death toll due to concerns about its accuracy (it had last been updated in July 2013, when it stood at 100,000).