NOVANEWS Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have long enjoyed close relations, but Islamabad’s new-found resolve for fighting the root causes of extremism has seen the Gulf state come in for rare criticism. The two countries, both […]
NOVANEWS One political analyst tells MintPress that “this particular friendship is interest-based. Politically, culturally and ideologically, those two powers stand on polar opposites, and therefore, their alliance will shift or dissolve based on each player’s […]
NOVANEWS An inflexible, oil-rich state run by an elderly, out-of-touch elite in cahoots with kleptocratic, self-dealing vested interests, how long does Saudi Arabia have to wait for a true reformer? And what’s going to happen […]
NOVANEWS By Taylor Goel Following the death of king Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Jan. 23, U.S. President Obama cut short his trip to India for a visit to Saudi Arabia to pay his condolences. Obama […]
NOVANEWS Exclusive: Saudi Arabia is under a new cloud after a jailed al-Qaeda operative implicated senior Saudi officials as collaborators with the terror group – and the shadow could even darken the political future of Israeli Prime Netanyahu because […]
NOVANEWS Saudi Arabia beheaded three on Wednesday convicted of rape and murder, the interior ministry said, bringing to 21 the number of foreigners and locals executed in the kingdom this year. The three were […]
NOVANEWS A regional human rights group on Tuesday denounced what it called Saudi intimidation, saying its website has been blocked by authorities in the conservative Gulf nation. Attempts inside Saudi Arabia to access the […]
NOVANEWS By: Mohamed Nazzal The Mufti of Saudi Arabia was right on the mark when he recently said that Twitter was a source of “evil” and a “scourge” for his kingdom. Secret Saudi documents from […]
NOVANEWS A court has sentenced a Saudi man to three years in prison for “insulting a foreign embassy in Riyadh” on Twitter, Saudi daily Al-Riyadh reported on Tuesday. The man, whose identity was not revealed, was convicted […]
NOVANEWS For Sixth Time in a Year Saudi activist Walid Abu al-Kheir was transferred from al-Malz prison to al-Hayer prison in Riyadh, marking the sixth transfer between several facilities in less than a year […]