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,...

Unlike President Bush who has retired to Texas to write his forthcoming memoirs, former vice-president Dick Cheney has decided...

Last week, a news item appeared which should send a shiver down the spine of anyone concerned about the future of the Middle East.

The head of Saudi Arabia's religious police on Sunday replaced a senior officer who outraged hardliners with calls to ease rules for prayer in mosques...

Senior Saudi cleric Sheikh Salman Al-Odeh, who is general supervisor of Islamtoday.net, recently reiterated his firm opposition to Al-Qaeda...

Saudi Arabia views the ongoing war in Afghanistan as a threat to Pakistan, which, for many decades, has served as Saudi Arabia's...

In 1994, a Saudi UN diplomat, Muhammed al Khilewi, was defected with about 10,000 documents among which were some that showed...

Saudi concerns about Yemen were amplified after its top anti-terrorism official, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, was slightly hurt in a suicide attack...

Saudi Arabia views the ongoing war in Afghanistan as a threat to Pakistan, which, for many decades, has served as Saudi Arabia's strategic...

SAUDI ARABIA is a land of superlatives. It has the biggest oil reserves in the world, the driest deserts and the holiest cities of Islam,...

Historians love anniversaries. They make a good excuse for organising a conference, but even better, they are perfect hooks to pitch 800...

But in this case, part of the frisson was nerves. Would the marauding religious police see unmarried — and some uncovered — women talking freely with men in the merry crowd of 600 and stage a raid?

The Saudi-CIA Web site was set up several years ago as a "honey pot," an online forum covertly monitored by intelligence agencies...

Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, spokesman for the ministry, said the new warning was issued after the ministry noticed a spate of SMS and online adverts...

The Saudi-CIA Web site was set up several years ago as a "honey pot," an online forum covertly monitored by intelligence agencies...

Plans to modernise Saudi Arabia's legal system -- key to reassuring foreign investors -- will take years due to a chronic shortage of qualified judges and lawyers and resistance from the powerful religious elite.

Pollution of the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina is a concept frequently condemned by the Wahhabi sect that enjoys a position as the state religion in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.