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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, with Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar. File | Photo Credit: Reutres Foreign Ministers of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, and Egypt have discussed ways to enhance cooperation in “key areas of mutual interest” in a third consultative meeting held in Antalya. The meeting between Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, Saudi Arabia…
Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, once compared Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to Hitler, and warned that if Tehran acquired a nuclear bomb, his kingdom would do the same. For years, rivalry between Saudi Arabia, a Sunni monarchy, and Iran, a Shia theocracy, had been a defining feature of West Asian geopolitics….
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Saudi Arabia said its national security was a “red line” on Tuesday, backing calls for UAE forces to leave Yemen within 24 hours, shortly after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit the southern port of Mukalla. Source link
President Donald Trump points to a reporter as he meets Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, on November 18, 2025, in Washington. | Photo Credit: AP Donald Trump defended Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the murder of a journalist and hailed a $1…
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U.S. President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday (November 14, 2025) that he is considering agreeing to a deal to supply Saudi Arabia with F-35 stealth fighter jets, which are made by Lockheed Martin. “They wanna buy a lot of jets,” Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air…
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Scenes from ‘India Week’, held from November 2-10 at the Suwaidi Park in Riyadh as part of the ‘Global Harmony’ initiative of the Ministry of Media, Saudi Arabia | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement For decades, they were considered itinerants of the oil-fuelled boom, people who came to make a living – often under restrictive conditions…
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As world leaders gathered in Munich, Germany, for Europe’s top annual security conference, placating, pleasing, and managing US President Donald Trump stood as a top agenda. Trump’s phone call to Russia’s Vladimir Putin, US Vice-President J.D. Vance’s disruptive speech challenging Europe, and, by association, the very nature of trans-Atlantic alliances, and demands to end the…
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Moscow: A Russian delegation including foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov has arrived in Saudi Arabia for high-level talks with US officials, Russian state TV reported Monday. The Rossiya 24 news channel showed the officials disembarking a plane in the Saudi capital Riyadh. “The main thing is to begin a real normalisation…
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Washington, United States: A senior team from US President Donald Trump’s administration will start talks in Saudi Arabia with Russian and Ukrainian negotiators on ending the Ukraine war, US officials said Saturday. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Trump’s Middle East negotiator Steve Witkoff will head to Saudi…
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If talks go well, the death machines will fall silent in West Asia, or at least Gaza, on Sunday. The US and Qatar have reportedly brokered a deal between Israel and Hamas to end the war. It’s been a long wait for the misery to end. The killings began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas…
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