Kasia Anderson / TruthdigSep 25, 2015
Saudi Arabia's King Salman was working on disaster containment and prevention strategies after Thursday's mass tragedy in Mina, where at least 717 people were killed and 863 others injured in a stampede during the Hajj pilgrimage. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Stanley HellerSep 15, 2015
A flood of US defense dollars long has supported Saudi Arabia, a hideous human rights abuser Ending the U-Saudi alliance could bring an enormous peace dividend to Americans. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigSep 9, 2015
The Saudi-owned, pan-Arab London daily Asharq al-Awsat reported on the meeting Friday between King Salman of Saudi Arabia and President Obama and their top foreign policy and security teams. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigSep 4, 2015
In a move to allay the Persian Gulf state’s concerns over the Iran nuclear deal, the Pentagon is completing an agreement to provide weapons for the Saudi military effort against Islamic State and Yemen. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Roisin Davis / TruthdigAug 25, 2015
According to Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia has executed at least 175 people in the past year, as the rate of beheadings soars under King Salman. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigMay 11, 2015
Watching Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia nowadays, is like Kremlin-watching in the old days of the Cold War. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigApr 13, 2015
Sweden's foreign minister has done what few Western officials have been willing to: denounce Saudi Arabia for its appalling human rights record. Now, Sweden has put its money where her mouth is, but will it cave in to pressure from Arabs and big business? Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 29, 2015
Egyptian president and former defense minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has backed calls to create a unified Arab force capable of opposing regional security threats and called the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led intervention in Yemen the “inevitable” result of meddling by a foreign power, namely non-Arab Iran. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigJan 28, 2015
That Saudi Arabia is treated with kid gloves only has one explanation: It pumps over 10 percent of the petroleum produced daily in the world. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigJan 28, 2015
President Obama cut short his trip to India, where he lectured the locals on women's rights, to personally express his warm wishes to the new monarch of Saudi Arabia, a country where women are not allowed to drive and where women and men are beheaded for crimes including sorcery. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJan 24, 2015
Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right and Center" panelists ask how will Saudi Arabia's new king manage the challenges of the region after Abdullah's death? New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is indicted on corruption charges. Also, the European Central Bank announced an aggressive bond-buying program. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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