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Obama’s 'ironclad' diplomacy in Middle East is a cash cow in the US
President Obama’s “ironclad commitment” to Persian Gulf allies may fail to calm Arab concerns about the resolutions to the increased instability in the Middle East, national security experts say. But...
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9 arrested over spectacular robbery of a Saudi prince in Paris
On Monday French police arrested 9 people connected to a $300,000 high-stakes robbery on the convoy of a Saudi prince in Paris last August, Radio France International reports.The tale of the heist is...
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Iran's decades-long cold war with Saudi Arabia may finally be reaching a...
On April 27, the head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Maj. Gen., Mohammad Ali Jafari lashed out at Saudi Arabia and its recent military intervention in Yemen, accusing the...
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Saudi Arabia wants to build the world's largest hotel
The world’s largest hotel is being planned for Mecca, Saudi Arabia, a remarkable structure that will rise out of the desert and apparently contain 10,000 rooms for worshippers.The hotel will be part of...
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The world's biggest oil exporter has quietly seized a market milestone from...
As the US raced over the past five years toward becoming a global petroleum powerhouse, the world's biggest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, quietly seized a market milestone from America: the largest...
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The ISIS - al Qaeda rivalry is playing out violently in Yemen
CAIRO (Reuters) - A bomb exploded at a Shi'ite Houthi mosque in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday, wounding 13 people, a security source said, and the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the...
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A private company is trying to build a $100 billion city-from-scratch in...
A $100 billion city-from-scratch in Saudi Arabia is to be completed by 2035 and will serve as the main logistics and manufacturing hub for countries on the Red Sea, the world's "largest new emerging...
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ISIS's global strategy is coming into focus
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham conducted two major bombings on Shia mosques in the Arabian Peninsula on May 22nd through its affiliates in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. ISIS claimed responsibility for...
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Saudi Arabia is on edge after ISIS suicide bombing
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's top Sunni cleric on Saturday branded a deadly attack on Shi'ite Muslims a bid to sow chaos, after villagers targeted in the bombing vented their anger at what they saw...
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Saudi Arabia is hedging its bets with solar power
So what to make of the statement by Saudi Arabia’s oil minister that the world’s biggest oil exporter could stop using fossil fuels as soon as 2040 and become a “global power” in solar and wind...
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Saudi-led warplanes launched a fresh wave of air strikes across Yemen
Sanaa (AFP) - Saudi-led warplanes launched a fresh wave of air strikes across Yemen targeting Iran-backed rebels as fighting raged on the ground in the south of the country, witnesses said.The air...
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ISIS is trying to stir up sectarian war in Saudi Arabia
A suicide bombing in Saudi Arabia as it presses on with its war against Shi'ite fighters in Yemenhas exposed the Sunni kingdom's failure to curb sectarianism at home and prompted fears that such...
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This is how reliant Saudi Arabia is on oil money
HSBC did a 79-chart long chartbook on the Saudi economy. The takeaway is that Saudi Arabia has one of the strongest economies in the region and a very young population.But it's heavily reliant on...
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Saudi Arabia is on pace to set a new record in executions
Saudi Arabia beheaded three men on Tuesday, bringing the number of prisoners put to death by the kingdom this year to 88, according to a tally by Agence France-Presse.With seven months still left in...
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US and Moroccan F-16s train during the largest Department of Defense exercise...
Six F-16 Fighter Falcon aircraft belonging to 480th Fighter Squadron from Spangdahlem, Germany, along with support assets deployed to Ben Guerir airbase, in Morocco, to participate in joint and...
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ISIS suicide bomber in women's clothing kills 3 in Saudi Arabia
An Islamist militant suicidebomber disguised as a woman blew himself up outside a Shi'ite mosque in eastern SaudiArabia on Friday, killing himself and three other people, the second attack of its kind...
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Fighting rages in Yemen's strategic port city
Heavy fighting erupted in southern Yemen near Aden airport on Friday when local militia attacked Shi'ite Houthi rebels in a push to drive them from the district, residents and fighters said.Saudi-led...
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Saudi Arabia has been stabbing the US in the back for decades
In my Post colleague Charles Krauthammer's May 21 op-ed column, "You want hypotheticals? Here's one," former Saudi Arabian intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal was quoted approvingly as...
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King Salman is overhauling the birthplace of Saudi Arabia's ideology
Saudi Arabia's recently crowned King Salman is making the birthplace of his government's ruling ideology into a tourist attraction, according to The New York Times.A massive complex with parks,...
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Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen could change OPEC's entire strategy
OPEC's hands-off policy in the oil market is expected to continue after the cartel meets in Vienna on June 5.This policy includes an aggressive pace of oil production despite extremely volatile oil...
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