In December 2023, the Houthis Ansar Allah movement, Iran's proxy in Yemen, escalated its attacks on vessels in the Red Sea and Bab-el-Mandeb. The Houthis have been attacking commercial vessels that they claim are connected to Israel or are bound for that country, with the stated aim of aiding the Gazans in the war with Israel, which broke out following Hamas' deadly attack on
Amid the riots in France following the killing of a French-Algerian teen by a Paris policeman, senior Saudi journalist 'Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed, a former director of Al-Arabiya TV and former editor of the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat daily, wrote in the daily that the main reason for these riots is not French racism or hatred towards immigrants or Muslims, but rather the weakness of the
A number of articles recently published in the Saudi press criticize the extremist model promoted by the Taliban in Afghanistan and by ISIS and the movements of political Islam. This model, they argue, does not reflect the true spirit of Islam and is based on a misguided implementation of the Islamic shari'a. It results from decades of indoctrination that promoted Islamic
The December 7-9, 2022 visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Saudi Arabia attracted attention and sparked debate all over the world, especially against the backdrop of the rivalry between China and the U.S.