TEHRAN, October 11 -Pressure is building on the Riyadh regime amid reports of its role in the disappearance and suspected murder of a dissident journalist, with Human Rights Watch (HRW) urging Saudi allies, including the US and the EU, to reconsider their ties with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman -- who is reported to have ordered an “operation” against his critic.
TEHRAN, October 10 -Yemeni army soldiers, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have reportedly launched an airstrike against a position of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen's former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, in the country’s western coastal province of Hudaydah.
TEHRAN, October 09 - Whistleblower organization WikiLeaks has raised suspicions about the way the British media have been covering the disappearance and alleged death of a Saudi journalist in Turkey, saying there could be Saudi money at work.
TEHRAN, October 08 -Turkey has summoned Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Ankara for the second time in less than a week and asked for permission to search the kingdom's consulate for dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi who has disappeared since visiting the mission.
TEHRAN, October 06 - Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into the disappearance of prominent Saudi commentator Jamal Khashoggi, who has been missing for four days after entering the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, broadcaster NTV reported on Saturday.
TEHRAN, October 06 - Lebanese media say Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi who is suspected to have disappeared in Turkey’s Istanbul has been flown to Riyadh.
TEHRAN, October 05 -Major American daily newspaper the Washington Post has printed a blank column in solidarity with prominent Saudi dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who went missing after visiting the Saudi consulate in Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul a few days ago.
TEHRAN, October 04 -Oil prices on Thursday slipped from four-year highs reached the previous session, pressured by rising U.S. inventories and after sources said Russia and Saudi Arabia struck a private deal in September to raise crude output.
TEHRAN, October 03 -The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia’s key partner in the ongoing Riyadh-led invasion of Yemen, has reportedly been recruiting tribesmen from northern and central parts of Africa to fight in the war.
TEHRAN, September 30 -Saudi Arabia has missed out on gaining full membership of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) after the global body dedicated to fighting illicit money flows found the kingdom fell short in combating money laundering and terror financing.
TEHRAN, September 29 - Saudi Arabia and its allies have cried foul over a UN Human Rights Council resolution that extended the mandate of an international investigation into war crimes in Yemen, despite Riyadh’s efforts to abort the mission.
TEHRAN, September 28 -Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is going to visit neighboring Kuwait on the weekend, amid expectations that he will seek a Kuwaiti mediation to resolve the ongoing spat with Qatar and put an end to its diplomatic and trade boycott against the energy-rich Persian Gulf kingdom.
TEHRAN, September 26 -At least seven people have sustained injuries when Saudi regime forces carried out an operation in the kingdom’s oil-rich Eastern Province as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its brutal clampdown against pro-democracy campaigners and political dissidents.
TEHRAN, September 24 - Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have intercepted and targeted an unmanned aerial vehicle, belonging to the Saudi-led military coalition, as it was flying in the skies over the country’s strategic western province of Hudaydah.
TEHRAN, September 16 -Saudi authorities are reportedly keeping more than 2,500 anti-regime activists behind bars as part of a widening crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against Muslim preachers, members of the press and intellectuals in the oil-rich kingdom.
TEHRAN, September 15 -At least 15 people have lost their lives in fresh air raids conducted by Saudi warplanes on a strategic road linking the Yemeni port city of Hudaydah to the capital, Sana'a.
TEHRAN, September 11 -The ongoing aggression by the Saudi-led coalition has devastated Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Middle East. The war is estimated to have cost the Saudis upwards of $100 billion, eroded the international image of the kingdom and failed to achieve any of its objectives.
TEHRAN, September 07 - With the devastating impact of the ongoing campaign led by the Saudi regime in Riyadh against the impoverished country of Yemen, there has been a constant rise in the cases of malnutrition there, many of them life-threatening.
TEHRAN, September 03 - Saudi Arabia says a school bus targeted in an airstrike in Yemen last month was a "legitimate target" after finally admitting "mistakes" which took the lives of scores of children.