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Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani has been invit-ed by Emir Sabah Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah of Kuwait to at-tend the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit, taking place in Kuwait on December 5-6 with Saudi Arabia expected Read more
Saudi Air defense forces have indicated they have destroyed Thursday a ballistic missile launched from within neighboring Yemen in direction to the southern city of Khamis Mushait, state-run news agency has reported. The missile, according to Col. Turki Al-Maliki, spokesman Read more
King Mohammed VI warned that the continuing stalemate in the Middle East peace process jeopardizes the future of the peoples in the region and is a key driver of extremism and instability. “It goes without saying that the Palestinian cause Read more
The former head of the Saudi National Guard was freed Tuesday from detention after he agreed to pay back to authorities more than $1 billion in the anti-corruption clean-up directed by powerful Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, aka MbS, an Read more
Microsoft founder Bill Gates in an email to Bloomberg Monday dared to speak in favor of Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal whom he called an “important partner”. Alwaleed has been detained along with 200 others in a corruption clean-up drive Read more
The Kuwaiti appeal court Monday handed opposition figures, including leader Musallam al-Barrak, jail terms ranging from one to nine years for storming the National Assembly six years ago. Barrak, a former MP, just completed in April a two-year prison term Read more
The political turmoil in the Gulf and the drop in international oil prices are not affecting the UAE’s economy nor Abu Dhabi’s economic diversification plans, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, CEO of Mubadala, a sovereign fund with around $125 billion of assets Read more
Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, aka MbS, who was hosting a meeting of top defense officials of Muslim-majority countries Sunday in Riyadh, urged for stronger action to erase terrorism from the surface of the earth. The Sunday gathering, held Read more
Iraq announced that it plans to build a new pipeline that will ship oil from Kirkuk’s oilfields to the Ceyhan port in Turkey, in an attempt to reduce dependence on the pipeline crossing the territories under the administration of the Read more
Despite the economic blockade imposed by its neighbors and a plunge of crude prices, Qatar’s economy is still projected to expand by 3.1% in 2018 up from 2.5% in 2017. The real GDP growth is expected to pick up on Read more