Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s health officials have stressed that there is no threat to Haj pilgrims from the possible outbreak of a new virus in the Kingdom. “There have been two cases …

Saudi Arabia has denied allegations that Syrians will not be able to perform the annual Muslim pilgrimage of Hajj this year because of a conflict with Damascus. The Saudi Hajj …

The leader of the Lebanese anti-Israeli group Hezbollah has called for fresh protests in the country on Monday over a film deemed offensive to Muslims. The world needed to know …

Saudi Arabia's annual inflation eased to 3.8 percent in August, its lowest level in almost three years, government statistics showed. Slower increases in rents were highlighted as the cause of …

Saudi Arabia is concerned by the recent increase in oil prices as the market is no longer short on supply, the country’s oil minister said on Monday. Ali al-Naimi said …

Indices, indexes, rankings and ratings. Never have there been more measures competing for attention than today. At the end of May, two ranking reports with relevance to Arab markets were …

Pessimists think of Yemen as the new Afghanistan or Somalia, while the optimists’ tend to see it as the new Egypt, or better yet, Tunisia. Situated somewhere between the two, …

Despite billions of petrodollars spent on healthcare in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom’s targets for healthcare service have not been met in recent years. With the government’s push to include more …

Entrenched Arab governments in Jordan, Algeria and even Syria and Yemen reacted to the Arab Spring with a mixture of political concessions and repression. Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, …

Saudi Aramco, valued anywhere from $2 trillion to $7 trillion and employing more than 55,000 people, is the world’s largest unlisted company. How it got there is a story that …