Significantly, the country followed strictly orthodox Wahhabi Sunni Islam. Now, Saudi Arabia has mandated a much more modern style of Islam. It no longer has school textbooks full of blood-curdling ...

Although Saudi Arabia is the world’s biggest oil exporter, the kingdom and neighboring countries are using money from energy sales to diversify their economies. Saudi Arabia has announced that ...

Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Syria and meet with its new president is a major shift in U.S.-Syria relations, but it ...

In a major embarrassment for the country, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif stated that the problem has reached ...

US President Donald Trump didn’t show up empty-handed on the first international trip of his second term. Joining him in Saudi Arabia were almost three dozen CEOs of ...

President Donald Trump arrived in Riyadh on Tuesday to a royal-purple-carpet rollout and a motorcade ride ensconced by a ...

not selling military hardware to regional countries that are as or more advanced than Israel's arsenal. Unlike the neighboring United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia has not joined the Abraham Accords ...

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would order the lifting of sanctions on Syria at the behest of Saudi Arabia's crown ...

breaking with the longstanding tradition of visiting neighbouring North American countries first. His trip to Saudi Arabia from May 20 to 22, 2017 – during which he attended the Riyadh Summit ...

In the warm kitchens of Saudi Arabia and across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries like Bahrain and the UAE, a ...

He encouraged Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords, agreements inked with neighboring UAE and Bahrain ... edge transformative technologies in both countries.” Trump, meanwhile, lavished ...

US President Donald Trump signed a $142bn defense sales agreement in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as he ... The president is then set to travel to neighbouring Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.