Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey has begun sending home Saudi fighters in Syria. Officials said Turkey responded to a request from Saudi Arabia and sent nationals who had been fighting the regime of President Bashar Assad in Syria. The officials said many of the Saudi fighters had crossed the border from Syria into Turkey […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Saudi Arabia was said to have paid Pakistan for nuclear weapons, meant for delivery once Iran achieves such capability. European and Israeli sources said Saudi Arabia has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program. They said Islamabad has already assembled an unspecified number of nuclear warheads […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia plans to expand weapons supplies and training of Syrian rebels in Jordan. The Washington Post reported that Saudi Arabia has pulled away from the United States to help the Sunni revolt against Syrian President Bashar Assad. The U.S. daily said the Saudi efforts included increased arms and training […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Saudi King Abdullah has long kept women drivers from military facilities. An opposition group released an order by Abdullah that banned women from driving within two hospitals operated by the National Guard. The Institute for Gulf Affairs said the ban by Abdullah, then crown prince and issued more than a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com WASHINGTON — Saudi King Abdullah was preparing to replace his longtime foreign minister, a report said. The Gulf Institute asserted that Abdullah was preparing to replace longtime Foreign Minister Saudi Bin Faisal, struck with Parkinson’s Disease. In a report, the opposition institute said the king was intent on appointing his son […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Saudi Arabia has reported tension between the government and the controversial religious police. Senior officials have accused the religious police, called Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, of violating the law and ignoring government policy. They cited the harassment by the police, known by […]
Special to WorldTribune.com AMMAN — Jordan, which is hosting 1,000 U.S. troops and tens of thousands of Syrian refugees and fighters preparing to enter Syria, has expressed dismay over delays in U.S. arms exports. The United States has some 1,000 troops — part of what has been called U.S. Central Command Forward, Jordan. The unit, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The administration of President Barack Obama has been warned that Syria’s chemical weapons could be dispersed and that Jordan could collapse. A leading senator said the Hashemite kingdom was under tremendous strain from the civil war in neighboring Jordan. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com AMMAN — Jordan has been transformed into the main base of the Sunni revolt against Syrian President Bashar Assad. Western diplomatic sources said Jordan has been hosting thousands of foreign fighters recruited to fight the Assad regime. They said Jordan, aided by Saudi Arabia and the United States, has also helped train […]
Special to WorldTribune.com AMMAN — Jordan, in wake of the ouster of Egypt’s first Islamist president, has been considering its own crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. Sources said King Abdullah determined that the opposition, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood, was seeking to undermine Jordan’s rapproachement with Egypt’s new military-backed regime. “The king does not want the […]