More: Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia and Iran cold war
After almost seven decades, the cold war has reached the middle east, turning into a religious war of words and diplomacy. As Winston Churchill...
Iran-Saudi Arabia talks: Some good news
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) recent comments where he batted for better bilateral ties with Iran have understandably drawn attention (given that...
Reconciliation among the Gulf States: New concern for the US & others?
It was 5th June of 2017, when Saudi Arabia, declared a ban on Qatar and its registered planes, ships and naval facilities from using...
Yemen war: Reasons behind new peace initiative
Why Saudi Arabia has given a new peace initiative to end Yemen conflict
Yemen, a tiny state on the Arabian Peninsula, has been a place...
BRI project thriving in Middle East
Why Middle East is of immense importance for belt and road initiative project?
BRI a developmental approach embraced by China is the revival of ancient...
Playing US politics: Saudi Arabia targets Middle America
Amid Washington chatter about the future of US-Saudi relations, the kingdom has launched an unprecedented public diplomacy campaign to marshal business and grassroots support...
In the bull’s eye: Turkish, not Saudi, schoolbooks
In a sign of the times, Turkish schoolbooks have replaced Saudi texts as the bull’s eye of criticism of supremacist and intolerant curricula in...
Reform in Saudi Arabia: A road not taken
Saudi Sheikh Salman al-Awdah, a popular but controversial religious scholar who has been mostly in solitary confinement since 2017, appeared in court this week...
Russia Foreign Minister’s Gulf tour: A bellwether of US-Saudi relations
As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov embarks on a four-day visit to the Gulf, Middle Eastern leaders are either struggling to get a grip...
Joe Biden and his first contradictory foreign policy moves
Those who thought that the elderly American President, formerly Barack Obama's vice-President, would step into the international limelight as the wise and moderate statesman...