Saudi Arabia has publicly accused the United Arab Emirates – a fellow Gulf Arab state and former partner in the Yemen war – of undermining its national security, an unusually blunt charge that exposes ...

Analysts attribute increase to kingdom’s ‘war on drugs’ as authorities kill 356 people by death penalty Saudi authorities executed 356 people in 2025, setting a new record for the number of inmates ...

Saudi Arabia is quietly permitting some residents to buy alcohol, breaking a longstanding taboo as the Islamic kingdom looks to expand its tourism sector, attract high-earning expatriates and ...

DUBAI - The Saudi authorities executed 356 people in 2025, according to an AFP tally, setting a new record for the number of inmates put to death in the kingdom in a single year. Analysts have largely ...

Fraternal, historical relations between the two states a key pillar for regional stability The UAE has expressed its deep regret regarding the statement issued by the sisterly Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ...

Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen’s port city of Mukalla on Tuesday after a weapons shipment from the United Arab Emirates arrived for separatist forces in the war-torn country, and warned that it viewed ...

Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen’s port city of Mukalla on Tuesday over what it described as a shipment of weapons for a separatist force there that arrived from the United Arab Emirates. The kingdom later ...

Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes on Yemen’s southern port city of Mukalla this week have exposed a sharp and public rupture inside what was once a unified Gulf-backed coalition. What began as a complex war ...

Attack was aimed at what Riyadh called a shipment of weapons for separatists backed by UAE The United Arab Emirates has said it will withdraw its remaining forces in Yemen after tensions with Saudi ...

Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen’s port city of Mukalla on Tuesday after a weapons shipment from the United Arab Emirates arrived for separatist forces in the war-torn country, and starkly warned that it ...

Simply sign up to the Middle Eastern politics & society myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It was a covert military shipment docking at a Yemeni port that finally brought simmering ...

Strike at port represents major flare-up between Gulf powers Source links incident to November talks over Sudan UAE-backed force advanced through region bordering Saudi Arabia UAE denies working to ...