Tag: Saudi Arabia

• Tuesday, January 5th 2016 - 01:39 UTC

  Saudi Arabia breaks diplomatic relations with Iran: row over execution of Shia cleric

  

  Saudi Arabia says it has broken off diplomatic ties with Iran, amid a row over the Saudi execution of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir was speaking after demonstrators had stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran.

• Tuesday, August 18th 2015 - 09:08 UTC

  Trump blasts Saudi Arabia for making 'a billion a day' and funding terrorism

  

  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump backed the commitment of ground troops if necessary to cripple the Islamic State and complained the US has always come out in support of Saudi Arabia, and while they make 'a billion a day', they are also the world's biggest funder of terrorism.

• Monday, June 8th 2015 - 08:25 UTC

  “Argentine Malvinas question” support group has a branch in Saudi Arabia

  

  Argentina is seeking the support of Saudi Arabia in its dispute with the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands sovereignty. This was the appeal of the country's Ambassador Jaime Sergio Cerda during a seminar recently on the matter at his residence in the Diplomatic Quarter of Riyadh, reports Arab News.

• Tuesday, March 10th 2015 - 06:17 UTC

  Saudi Arabia largest importer of defense equipment in 2014, and probably 2015

  

  Saudi Arabia has replaced India as the largest importer of defense equipment worldwide and took the top spot as the number one trading partner for the US in 2014, according to IHS’ annual Global Defense Trade Report.

• Friday, October 3rd 2014 - 07:11 UTC

  Oil at its lowest point in more than two years as Saudis defend market share

  

  Price cuts by key exporter Saudi Arabia helped send global crude prices to their lowest point in more than two years Thursday before they recovered in late trade.

• Thursday, September 11th 2014 - 05:14 UTC

  Islamic State's ultimate goal: Saudi Arabia's oil wells

  

  For the terrorist group known as the Islamic State, Syria and Iraq were a good place to start their campaign, but in order to survive and prosper it knew from the outset that it had no choice but to set its sights on the ultimate prize: the oil fields of Saudi Arabia.

• Monday, October 21st 2013 - 19:52 UTC

  Support for Saudi Arabia's rejection of UN Security Council seat

  

  Saudi Arabia's Gulf Arab allies and Egypt have applauded its decision to reject a UN Security Council seat in protest at the world body's failure to act on Syria, whose leader is backed by Russia and Shi'ite Iran.

• Saturday, October 19th 2013 - 16:06 UTC

  Saudi Arabia furious with the US, is not taking seat on UN Security Council

  

  Saudi Arabia, in a display of anger at the failure of the international community to end the war in Syria and act on other Middle East issues, said it would not take up its seat on the United Nations Security Council.

• Wednesday, August 29th 2012 - 03:07 UTC

  US government sales soared to 66.3bn dollars in 2011; Saudis main buyers

  

  US government sale of weapons soared by over three times in just one year - from 21.4 billion dollars in 2010 to 66.3 billion in 2011, the largest for a single year in the history of the US arms export program, according to a report by the US Congress Research Service.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 04:35 UTC

  The endless war: Saudi Arabia goes on the offensive against Iran

  

  Saudi Arabia has gone on the offensive against Iran to protect its interests. Their involvement in Syria is the first battle in what is going to be a long bloody conflict that will know no frontiers or limits.