This decree comes in order to restore the prestige of the fatwa and to regulate how fatwas are issued,...

In June, Western skepticism of the rehabilitation program was intensified when the Saudi Ministry of Interior...

There's an unexplored flip side to the Cassandra myth: As you'll recall, she was the Trojan princess to whom the gods granted the gift of prophecy.

An imam, whose voice helped him become the first black Saudi to lead prayers at Mecca's Grand Mosque, said he was wrong to speak against a fatwa...

Addressing a press conference, he thanked the Saudi government for its continuous support to the MWL. “The United Nations has given...

Thirdly, analysts say the reform of the education system fits well with the overture initiated by King Abdullah, particularly with the appointment...

The society that leaps from these pages is repressive to an almost unimaginable degree. Daily life is a cocktail of cane-wielding religious police,...

August marks Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud's fifth year as king of Saudi Arabia, a good moment to assess reforms in the area of human rights.

The empowerment of the Sudairis brought continuity to the system, preventing the recurrence of open squabbling. It also prompted...

The country was traumatized by fears that Iraq might extend its invasion of Kuwait into the kingdom and that thousands of arriving...

Al Maiman said they have thought about that, and don’t want it to be “just a bunch of papers presented within a certain period of time.”

According to Arab News, the U.S. ambassador to Riyadh, James Smith, described this White House visit as a “very important”...

Last week, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah was welcomed to the White House by President Obama. According to the Washington Post,...

The spotlight was focused on Al-Qaeda in Yemen in the wake of an attempt to blow up a passenger plane headed to United States last December...

Whether the challenge is climate change, homelessness resulting from man-made and natural disasters, the fight against religious extremism,...

We will have to wait for W's biography for his explanation of this gaucheness, which came to define his presidency. However, the prevailing assumption is that Abdullah,...

This makes Al Maiman singularly qualified for his new role in a crucial ideological struggle that is taking place in the kingdom and throughout the Muslim world.

Despite the odds, novelists in closed, controlled Saudi Arabia have come into their own in recent years, publishing a growing body of work...

In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency, an official source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said: "Saudi Arabia has noticed some false claims..."

Tel Aviv and Tehran are separated by around 1,900 kilometers, which is the distance that separates the Israeli fighter jets from their Iranian targets...

To ensure the Israeli bombers pass unmolested, Riyadh has carried out tests to make certain its own jets are not scrambled and missile defence systems not activated.

According to the Islamic lunar calendar, King Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz has reigned over Saudi Arabia for five years. In late summer 2005,...

When terrorists in the Middle East attack innocent civilians, observers in the West often ask a pained question: Where's the outrage in the Muslim world?

The prince warned that Saudi Arabia was still a target. “So we are going ahead with the same strength and determination to confront them,”...

The Saudis have accumulated one of the most modern militaries in the Arab world. Although there is minimal threat to Israel from Saudi Arabia on its own,...

Saudi Arabia's religious police are investigating three young Saudis who challenged the country's strict laws in a TV programme.

As U.S. policymakers become increasingly uneasy about the fate of the remaining detainees currently held at Guantánamo Bay, greater attention is being paid to so-called jihadist rehabilitation...

What do hardline, right wing Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and an Iranian cleric called Mohammed Baqer Kharrazi have in common? The answer is their hatred of Saudi Arabia.

A prominent Saudi journalist who conducted several interviews with Osama bin Laden and once tried to persuade him to reconcile with the Saudi royal family...

There is not much public debate in Saudi Arabia on foreign-policy issues. Even with the greater media openness of the last five years or so,...