A diplomatic crisis broke out last October after the then-information minister George Kordahi was quoted criticizing the Saudi role in Yemen, prompting the kingdom and other Gulf allies to expel Lebanese envoys.

The first wave of the pandemic spanning April to the end of November 2020 witnessed 267 deaths for each 100,000 cases.

In a major shake-up in the coalition battling Houthi rebels, Yemen's president Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi has formed a new council to lead the war-wracked country.

The meetings are taking place under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Saudi ruler King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

Saudi Arabia has declared a ban on the import of trucks older than five years in order to raise the efficiency and competitiveness of the kingdom's transport sector.

The selection followed the Kingdom's admission to the Academy’s membership as one of the founding members of the international organization.

The Saudi Finance Ministry has forecast the kingdom's real gross domestic product to grow by 7.4 percent.

Yemen's warring parties on Tuesday traded accusations of violating a ceasefire agreement, three days after it went into effect at the start of Ramadan.

The non-oil private sector of Saudi Arabia has recorded more growth in March than it did in more than four years, driven by improvements in purchasing and supply deliver times.

The growth was driven by medical supplies, dermatology, knitting sector.

The Saudidates platform is expected to help the center promote digital transformation and digitize markets and the entire sectors.

The wheat is being procured from Europe, North and South America, and Australia, and will arrive in Saudi Arabia from September to November this year.

As foreign investors seek to take advantage of investment opportunities in the region, KSA and UAE get billions of dollars injected into their economies.

The International Data Corp. has predicted Saudi spending on information and communications technology to touch $33 billion in 2022, a growth of 2.3 percent.

ACWA Power of Saudi Arabia and its partners have begun work on a big green hydrogen project in NEOM.

The firm will buy controlling stake for $158 million.

Here’s a look at what landed the UAE and Saudi Arabia among some of the better countries with a pension scheme for retiring or retired employees from both the government and private sectors.

Middle East’s largest entertainment event, Riyadh Season 2021, which concluded on March 31, welcomed more than 15 million visitors, according to Saudi media reports. The Season’s second edition was launched on October 20 last year. Organized by the Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority, the first edition of the event was...

Saudi Venture Capital and Flat6Labs have teamed up to launch a $40 million startup seed fund.

A UN-brokered two-month truce took effect in Yemen Saturday, the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and analysts hope for a rare respite in the impoverished country's seven-year war.

Tadawul, the Saudi stock exchange, has barred three companies from trading in shares over their failure to issue financial statements for 2021.

The UAE has expressed its "support" for the UN ceasefire, which was also welcomed by the US, UN chief Antonio Guterres, the European Union, and the leaders of Britain, France, and Iraq.

Traditionally, many Muslim-majority countries have followed dates set by Saudi religious authorities, but in recent years many have used their own astronomic calculations.

Here’s a broader look at how the region has prioritized solid-waste recycling and the production of alternative fuels to deal with the trash they generate.

The UAE and Saudi stock markets posted considerable gains this week even as oil prices took a dip with the US tapping into its reserves to tame high crude oil prices.

GCC countries have a highly dynamic environment characterized by growing populations, a broad diversity of patient demands and increasing healthcare budgets, says Rodrigo Rodriguez, the Middle East Cluster General Manager of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company.

The economy of Saudi Arabia is forecast to grow 7.7 percent this year propelled by the expansion of the kingdom's oil sector, according to Jadwa Investment.

The 13 members of the Saudi-led OPEC and 10 countries spearheaded by Russia backed an increase of 432,000 barrels per day in May, marginally higher than in previous months.

Yemen's Houthi rebels said Wednesday that they "regret" that Saudi Arabia has not given a "clear" reaction to their ceasefire offer, but said they were open to "any positive response".

The paper has shone a spotlight on how Saudi Arabia’s e-government, tourism, healthcare, and transit sectors stand to benefit from the smart city revolution in the Kingdom.

The Egyptian and Saudi governments have signed a draft agreement for Saudi investments in the country totaling a projected $10 billion, according to a statement by the Egyptian cabinet.

The unemployment rate among Saudi citizens reduced to 11 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021. The General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) released the "Labor Market Statistics Q4, 2021, on its official website which revealed this data. The unemployment rate fell by 0.3 percentage points (pp) from Q3/2021, and lower...

Sudan's de facto leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Wednesday started his first official visit to Egypt since last year's military coup. Burhan, greeted on arrival by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a ceremony broadcast live on state television, was accompanied by the head of general intelligence services, according to...

Digital Government Authority has launched the Digital Government Investment and Procurement Program (SADAF) initiative to accelerate digital procurement in government agencies.

The Global Entrepreneurship Conference (GEC) recorded 28.9 billion ($7.71 billion) worth of agreements and launches on the second day. The conference is designed to support entrepreneurship in various fields and enhance the Kingdom's position as an attractive environment for pioneers, innovators and creators from around the world. It has been...

Shares of Saudi mining firm Amak surged 30 percent on its debut on the kingdom's main stock exchange.

Volatility on oil markets sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine would be worse without OPEC+, the Saudi energy minister said on Tuesday, insisting the alliance that includes Russia deserves credit.

The Global Entrepreneurship Congress is expected to see 40 agreements being signed between government agencies and major corporations.

Five countries, including Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Italy, Ukraine and Russia are in the reckoning for the 2030 World Expo.

Pablo Martinez, Managing Director and Senior Partner at the Boston Consulting Group, sheds light on what lies ahead for the sector in the kingdom.

PIF, Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund, is in talks with four construction firms in order to make investments to the tune of millions of dollars in the companies.

The airline will fly three weekly flights to Serbia's capital.

A total of 33 agreements besides several investments worth more than $4.2 billion were signed on the first day of the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Riyadh. These are aimed at supporting entrepreneurship in various fields and enhancing the Kingdom’s status as an attractive environment for pioneers, innovators and creators in...

The bank announced this while participating in the Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) in Riyadh.

Now entities that typically have strong brand equity, control over distribution, and very few competitors, have a competitive edge that makes it difficult for rivals to emulate their products and services. What of the rest? Lovrenc Kessler, Managing Partner of Simon-Kucher & Partners Middle East, explains.

War-torn Yemen faces an "extremely troubling outlook" after a serious escalation between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia, the head of the United Nations Development Program warned on Sunday.

Saudi Arabia has evinced interest to develop small modular nuclear reactors in order to generate electricity for remote areas of the kingdom. He told GEC 2022 in Riyadh that the kingdom will develop more technologies at home to limit the risk to the planet.

In order to protect SMEs from economic recession, Saudi Arabia provided more than $80 billion in support to the businesses, according to the head of the authority known as Monshaat.

As the world talks about the Ukraine crisis, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have called out the world about its reaction to the suffering of a lot of countries in the Middle East.

The move comes two weeks after the country lifted all Covid-19-related entry restrictions.