The United States has reiterated commitment to strengthen defense capabilities of Saudi Arabia and its Gulf partners against threats from Yemen. The support came from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken while talking to Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on telephone. Meanwhile, ...

RIYADH – Amid the diversification of entertainment in the Kingdom, foreign dancers performed at a local festival in the south-western region that triggered an outcry. As the viral footage showed foreign dancers performing at a local festival with revealing costumes on street, Saudi authorities ...

LONDON – Saudi Arabia has released a princess and her daughter after three-year-long detention without any charges against them. Princess Basmah bint Saud bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, 57, is known for campaigning for human rights especially women in the kingdom. She was arrested along with her adult ...

JEDDAH – Saudi Arabia will fine and jail individuals for undertaking Hajj this year without getting permit from the authorities. The kingdom’s interior ministry said that people entering Mina, Muzdalaf and Arfat without a permit will be slapped with 15,000 Saudi Riyals while individuals and ...

RIYADH – The Saudi Hajj Ministry has revised the policy for Umrah, allowing the pilgrims to perform one Umrah every 10 days. Report of *Haramain Sharifain* quoting Ministry of Hajj officials said the authorities restricted pilgrims to perform multiple Umrah on arrival in wake of the surge in ...

Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday referred to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif’s speeches as "a job application". While talking to media persons after federal cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Imran said that the speeches by Opposition Leader Shehbaz ...

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Thursday reimposed social distancing measures at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Makkah, after recording the highest number of infections in months. Workers have returned floor markings removed on October 17 to guide people to social distance in and around the Grand ...

Pakistan has strongly condemned the launch of hostile projectiles by Houthis towards Samtah governorate in Jazan region of Saudi Arabia that resulted in casualties, injuries and damage to civilian infrastructure. In a statement, Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar said such attacks not only ...

In Saudi Arabia, two persons were killed and seven others injured in a projectile attack by Houthi Militia on Jazan, a southern region of the Saudi Arabia bordering Yemen on Saturday. Saudi Arabia's civil defence said that hostile projectile was launched from inside Yemeni territory towards ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan has once again warned of the severe humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan saying that the Asian country could potentially become the biggest man-made crisis in the world if it did not act now. Addressing the Extraordinary Session of the Council of Foreign ...