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‘Saudi Arabia has acknowledged that the US-led anti-ISIS coalition has held a “political” discussion about a potential ground troop deployment in Syria. Riyadh’s statements have been criticized by Damascus as destructive and a threat to regional security. In an interview with Reuters, an aide to Saudi Arabia’s defense minister, Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri, confirmed that […]

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‘The Syrian government has warned against Saudi Arabia’s attempts to undermine a cessation of hostilities agreement that recently came into effect across the war-hit country. The Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday that remarks by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir about a plan B in Syria are clearly aimed at derailing the […]

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‘The Saudi military Saturday carried out a new airstrike on a populated market in Yemen’s northern province of Sana’a. Local witnesses said at least 40 people were killed in the airstrike that targeted the market in the Nehm district, northeast of the capital, Sana’a. However, Yemen’s official news agency Saba, citing security sources, identified the […]

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‘Calls have stepped up on the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) member states to stop selling deadly weapons to Saudi Arabia as the kingdom is using foreign arms to target civilians in Yemen. The Control Arms Coalition said in a report on Friday that 11 countries, all of them state parties or signatories to […]

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‘The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling for the introduction of an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia over its operation in Yemen, The Greens political group reported on its website. The resolution calls for an EU-wide arms embargo against the country, until alleged breaches of international humanitarian law in Yemen have been investigated, the […]

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‘This latest diplomatic development certainly appears positive on its surface, this week’s declared ‘Syrian Ceasefire’ – a three-way agreement between Washington, Russia and the Syrian government (and begrudgingly by the West’s other regional ‘stakeholders’) looks increasingly like it may just be the latest attempt to buy time – so that Washington, Turkey and Saudi Arabia […]

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‘Riyadh says it will not reduce crude production at its own expense and that high-cost American oil producers should make the cuts. Oil minister Ali al-Naimi says the current crude oversupply should be addressed by less efficient producers. The high-cost producers in question are US shale fields, Canada’s oil sands and deepwater projects. And this […]

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‘Saudi Arabia has asked all its nationals in Lebanon to leave the country amid deteriorating political ties between Riyadh and Beirut. The Saudi Foreign Ministry in a statement on Tuesday called on “all citizens not to travel to Lebanon, for their safety, and asking citizens residing in Lebanon or visiting not to stay unless extremely […]

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‘Saudi Arabia has started taxing water for residents amid the soaring cost of debt as oil revenues decline, media reports say. The kingdom’s unsustainable and extravagant use of water is rapidly depleting the country’s reserves, Saudi newspaper Al-Watan Arabic daily reported. It warned that the practice could soon lead to an environmental and social catastrophe. […]

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‘Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister says the militants wreaking havoc in Syria should be equipped with surface-to-air missiles. Arming militants with the missiles would “enable … [them]to neutralize the [Syrian] helicopters and planes,” German weekly Der Spiegel quoted Adel al-Jubeir as saying. In an interview published online on Friday, Jubeir expressed Riyadh’s support for regime change […]

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‘Over the weekend, the biggest story in the geopolitical world was Turkey’s escalation in Syria. With the Sunni-backed opposition on its last legs in Aleppo and under near constant bombardment by Russia from the air and Hezbollah on the ground, Ankara and Riyadh have a decision to make: intervene or allow the rebellion to be […]

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‘For the first time in a long time I feel concerned and worried about the prospect of war. The reaction of Saudi Arabia to the Russian intervention in Syria has always been the wild card in the shifting geopolitical power base in the Middle East. Turkey and Israel, along with Saudi Arabia are the three […]

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‘A war is brewing and perhaps within a few days or weeks, should cooler heads not prevail in the middle east, we will see the opening salvos of World War III. This time it won’t just be a proxy war between various extreme and moderate terrorist organizations. This time, as John Kerry so eloquently noted, […]

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