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  • 23 Jun 2017

    The Qatari-owned television network Al Jazeera has denounced what it calls an attempt to silence freedom of expression, after Saudi Arabia demanded that the broadcaster be shut down. The Saudis, plus other Gulf nations leading a blockade against Qatar, have issued a list of 13 demands in exchange for lifting a draconian two-week embargo. Qatar…

  • 7 Jun 2017
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    The Wikileaks files suggest there have been western efforts to “bring pressure” on Saudi Arabia to end its support for ISIS.

  • 5 Jun 2017

    The question of who supports terrorism has sparked the biggest diplomatic spat for years in the Gulf. Qatar has denied Saudi accusations that it supports terror groups, as five Arab states slapped on a travel ban and cut diplomatic ties.

  • 21 May 2017

    The long time Trump supporter and backer, strategist Roger Stone, has blasted the President for meeting with the Saudis. Mr Stone has played many roles in political campaigns and the elections of Presidents. He worked as a lobbyist and was a part of Mr Trump’s Presidential campaign. Mr Trump once described him as “a good…

  • 21 May 2017

    In what many may see as a change from his campaign’s anti-Muslim rhetoric President Trump has spoken of friendship, hope and love to the leaders of over 50 Muslim-majority countries. But he also called on them to ‘drive extremists out of this Earth’.

  • 20 May 2017

    President Trump has gloried in the lavish greetings extended to him by his Saudi hosts and garnered multi billion dollar deals. But as he did there were signs of a Saudi push-back at Iranian influence in the region and signs his troubles at home have apparently deepened.

  • 19 May 2017

    Air Force One is about to take off tonight, carrying Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia on his first trip overseas since he became President – for a summit in Saudi Arabia with Arab and Muslim leaders. Iran won’t be there, though, nor its close ally Syria. Today relations were complicated still further, as the Syrians…

  • 4 Apr 2017

    Theresa May has arrived in Saudi Arabia, insisting she would be raising concerns about the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, where thousands of people have died in the war between a Saudi-led coalition and rebel fighters.

  • 3 Apr 2017

    Theresa May flies to Saudi Arabia tomorrow on the second leg of her tour of Arab states.On the agenda will be discussions on counter terrorism and boosting trade with the kingdom. But her trip comes as the Metropolitan Police revealed its war crimes unit is examining allegations of war crimes by Saudi Arabia in their…

  • 3 Apr 2017

    Crispin Blunt, chair the Commons foreign affairs committee.

  • 19 Dec 2016

    Cluster bombs supplied by Britain have been used by Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen, where many civilians have been killed and injured in the fighting between rebels and government forces. Jon Snow speaks with former International Development Minister Sir Desmond Swayne.

  • 23 Mar 2016

    Saudi mosque, exports, oil and the West

    The Great Mosque of Brussels is said to remain a centre of Saudi-funded Wahhabi preaching and Salafism.

  • 4 Jan 2016

    Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of using an attack on its embassy in Tehran as an excuse to inflame tensions between the two Middle East rivals.

  • 2 Jan 2016

    Prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr is among 47 executed in Saudi Arabia in just one day.

  • 15 Dec 2015

    Saudi Arabia is leading an alliance of Muslim countries to combat Islamic State and other terrorist organisations.

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