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Rapprochement between USA and Saudi Arabia

22 October 2021

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman.
The talks mostly focused on the possibility of warming relations between their two countries if Riyadh would agree to normalize its diplomatic relations with (...)

Saudi Arabia inks military cooperation agreement with Russia

2 September 2021

After purchasing a $ 3 billion package of arms manufacturing rights from Russia in 2017 and subsequently backing out of a deal to acquire S-400 anti-missile systems, on 24 August 2021, Saudi Arabia signed an agreement of military cooperation with the Deputy Minister of Defense, General (...)

Saudi Arabia restores relations with Qatar

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) | 11 January 2021

Pursuant to the outcomes of the forty-first Summit of the Cooperation Council of the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) – the “Sultan Qaboos and Sheikh Sabah Summit” – held on 21 Jumada I A.H. 1442, corresponding to 5 January 2021, in Ula governorate in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which stressed the (...)

Benjamin Netanyahu and Yossi Cohen in Saudi Arabia

23 November 2020

According to the Israeli press, on 22 November 2020 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad chief Yossi Cohen travelled Neom, in Saudi Arabia, to meet with Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman ("MBS").
Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have official diplomatic (...)

Trump adapts US energy strategy

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 14 April 2020

While most people are absorbed by the time-distribution measures of the epidemic, the Saudis are questioning the power of their American protector. A showdown between Riyadh and Washington, which was already disrupting the world economy before the spread of Covid-19. President Trump considered (...)

Saudi gereontocracy tested by Covid-19

10 April 2020

0n 23 March 2020, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed for a worldwide ceasefire to fight Covid-19.
In Yemen, the Houthis, who had just defeated Saudi Arabia in the North of the country, immediately called on the various armed forces on the ground to respect a truce.
It (...)

White House planning "oil alliance" with Saudi Arabia

25 March 2020

As Washington takes stock of the Saudi defeat in Yemen and rumors in Riyadh of a possible coup d’etat are rife, Victoria Coates has been nominated US Special Envoy for Energy. She is reported to have arrived in Riyadh where she will reside.
Ms. Coates is suspected of having penned the column (...)

First NATO-ME War Overturns Regional Order

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 24 March 2020

While Europeans and Arabs are being absorbed by the coronavirus, Anglo-Saxons are changing the world order. Under US command, the United Kingdom took control of the Red Sea entrance; the United Arab Emirates turned on Saudi Arabia and inflicted a bitter defeat on South Yemen, while the Houthis (...)

Saudi Arabia makes oil price drop to $ 31 per barrel

10 March 2020

The price of crude per barrel plunged 20% on the European markets and 30% on the Asian markets following the quarterly OPEC meeting in Vienna, reaching it’s lowest level in eleven years.
Dismissing proposals to slightly cut its oil production during the current global economic downturn sparked (...)

Motive behind Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination

4 March 2020

Iranian journalist Saeed Kamali Dehghan (photo) working for The Guardian has confirmed that Jamal Khashoggi was his informant. According to him, the latter’s revelations to him constituted the motive for the assassination of the Washington Post journalist (and member of the Muslim Brotherhood), (...)

Russian comment on attack against oil infrastructure facilities in Saudi Arabia

Moscow (Russia) | 16 September 2019

According to media reports, a large-scale drone attack was launched in the early hours of September 14 against oil refineries of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company Saudi Aramco near the cities of Abqaiq and Khurais in the eastern part of the Kingdom. The Houthi Ansar Allah movement, now fighting (...)

Saudi Arabia informed of advance of attacks in Sri Lanka

21 May 2019

Sri Lankan police have arrested a Wahhabi preacher, Mohamed Aliyar, director of the Islamic Guidance Center in Kattankudy, a Muslim-dominated Eastern city.
He would be related to Zahran Hashim, the leader of the operation led by Daesh at Easter, which claimed the lives of nearly 270 people and (...)

Saudi Arabia supports China against the jihadists

25 February 2019

The Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed ben Salman, travelled to China on an official visit. The purpose: to contribute his support to China’s anti-terrorism policy.
The Crown Prince’s trip is taking place just as Turkey issues a declaration denouncing the repression that China is applying, according (...)

Saudi Arabia will fund the reconstruction of Syria

2 January 2019

According to President Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia could providing the core funding for reconstructing the Syrian Arab Republic.
Over the last seven years, Saudi Arabia has spent more than 500 billion dollars to bring down the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The only reason Saudi Arabia had (...)

The Opening of the 2018 Session of the Future Investment Initiative of Riyadh

24 October 2018

The 2018 session of the Future Investment Initiative opened on 23 October
2018 in Riyadh. This conference was inaugurated in 2017 and the intention
was that it become an annual event. However, the feet of most speakers and
foreign sponsors turned blue with hypothermia following Jamal (...)

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