Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The Saudi royal family is said to have been engaged in regional bribery. A leading anonymous Saudi dissident, known only as Mujtahidd, asserted that senior Saudi officials as well as royal family members were receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from Gulf Cooperation Council states. Mujtahidd, deemed a pseudonym, identified […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has submitted a request for billions of dollars in additional aid from Saudi Arabia. Diplomatic sources said the regime of President Abdul Fatah Sisi discussed a plan for Egypt to help bolster security of Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies. They said Sisi, who met Saudi King Abdullah, sought […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Saudi Arabia has displayed intermediate-range ballistic missiles procured from China nearly 30 years ago and maintained with Pakistani assistance. The Saudi military exhibited the CSS-2 missiles, designed to strike targets at a distance of up to 2,650 kilometers at a ceremony that ended the Abdullah Sword exercise on April 29. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States is said to have disclosed that Saudi King Abdullah was dying. Diplomatic sources said the administration of President Barack Obama relayed a photograph that showed Abdullah with a breathing tube, Middle East Newsline reported. The sources said the photograph was taken by White House personnel during Obama’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Saudi King Abdullah imprisoned his four daughters after they pleaded with their father to alleviate poverty in the Gulf Cooperation Council state. Abdullah’s ex-wife has disclosed that the king kept their daughters in confinement for 13 years. Al Anood Al Fayez, now in exile in London, said the daughters […]
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 […]