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Ukrainian and US officials met behind closed doors for hours of talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to find a path towards ending the war with Russia, after Kyiv’s forces launched their largest drone attack on Moscow of the war overnight. Ukrainians and anxious allies watched for any signs of an improvement — or further…
When Ukrainian and American officials sit down in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for their first high-level meeting since an Oval Office shouting match between their presidents last month, the goal will be finding a way to halt the bloodiest European war in generations. But the United States, Ukraine and Russia appear to have very different…
When President Trump said last month that he wanted to move all of Gaza’s roughly two million residents out of the strip to Egypt and Jordan and transform the territory into a beachfront “Riviera” for tourism, the pressure was on Arab leaders horrified by the idea to come up with their own grand plan. At…
As the commander of a rebel group allied with Al Qaeda during Syria’s long civil war, the man known by his nom du guerre, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, welcomed foreign jihadists, dispatched suicide bombers to blow up military posts and vowed to create an Islamic state. A decade ago, he told a journalist that Muslims should…
Only a few years ago, Washington was calling Saudi Arabia a “pariah” over its headline-making human rights violations. Western business leaders canceled investments in the kingdom. Celebrities and sports stars took flack for doing events there. With its oil and its regional clout, however, Saudi Arabia proved too useful for the Biden administration to push…
Ukraine conflict resolution brings USA and Russia close as never before Following the talks in Saudi Arabia, Russia and the U.S. proposed a three-stage peace plan for Ukraine. The first stage involves a ceasefire, the second calls for elections in Ukraine, and the parties will sign the peace agreement as part of реу third stage….
Russian and US officials held talks in Riyadh, covering various topics, including conflict resolution in Ukraine. The Russian delegation included Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov. Representing Washington were U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and Special Representative of the U.S. President Steve Witkoff. Russia and the…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived on Monday in Saudi Arabia for the second leg of a whistle-stop Middle East tour to discuss the future of both Gaza and Ukraine. The visit came amid criticism that the Trump administration was acting without consulting relevant foreign partners about the wars in both countries. The Saudi embassy…
Saudi Arabia ranked fourth and Riyadh 3rd globally in the United Nations E-Government Development Index 2024 (EGDI 2024). Saudi Arabia is also ranked second among the G20 countries and first regionally in the digital services index in addition to achieving seventh place in the e-participation index. Minister of Communications and Information Technology Eng. Abdullah Al-Swaha…
President Trump touted the 2020 Abraham Accords that established formal ties between Israel and four Arab countries as one of the biggest foreign policy achievements of his first term. Now he is pursuing his long-desired goal of getting Saudi Arabia to join the accords — but he may have just dealt himself a serious setback….
