Saudi Arabia is prepared to deploy ground troops to Syria to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) if US-led coalition leaders agree to the offer. Saudi’s air force has targeted ISIL with air strikes since the campaign began in Syria in September 2014, but the Gulf[…]
A Saudi court overturned the death sentence for Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh on Tuesday, his lawyer announced in a statement the same day. Fayadh was sentenced to the death penalty in November for “apostasy” and allegedly emitting “blasphemous statements” in some of his poetry. The poet’s sentence has been changed[…]
Malaysia’s attorney-general said on Tuesday that $681m transferred into Prime Minister Najib Razak’s personal bank account was a gift from the royal family in Saudi Arabia and there were no criminal offences or corruption involved. “I am satisfied with the findings that the funds were not a form of graft[…]
There will be no increase in South Africa’s hajj quota for 2016 after the Saudi Ministry of Hajj announced that quota cuts are to continue until construction work in the Kingdom has been completed. There were initial suggestions that the country could have 20% of its original quota restored for[…]
The South African Hajj and Umarah Council (SAHUC) has confirmed that the number of Umrah passengers who were unable to board a plane from Jeddah to Johannesburg at the weekend stands at forty-four and not sixty as stated in earlier reports. Although the matter has been resolved and the mutamireen[…]
Around 60 mutamireen from South Africa were unable to board a plane from Jeddah to Johannesburg on Sunday evening. President of the South African Travel, Hajj and Umrah Association (SATHOA), Seddick Steenkamp said on Monday morning an investigation into the matter found that the Saudi Arabian Airlines “inadvertently” cancelled the[…]
Iran took steps on Monday to try to limit the diplomatic damage from an attack on Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran by an angry mob, laying blame on a top security official and saying some of those who carried out the attack were being interrogated. Iranian officials appear to fear[…]
Top Arab diplomats have condemned attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran and warned that the Islamic Republic would face wider opposition if it continued its “interference” in the internal affairs of Arab states. After meeting on Sunday in Cairo for emergency talks requested by Riyadh, Arab League foreign ministers[…]
The Saudi-led coalition and Yemen’s foreign ministry denied Iran’s accusation that Saudi warplanes had hit its embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. Iran on Thursday said the warplanes had attacked its embassy in Yemen’s capital on Wednesday night, an accusation that exacerbated tension between the major Shi’ite and Sunni[…]
Qatar has become the latest country to back Saudi Arabia in its dispute with Iran, recalling its ambassador to Tehran on Wednesday in response to the attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions last weekend. Jordan, Djibouti, and Turkey also expressed pro-Saudi positions on Wednesday after the embassy attacks in Iran that[…]
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