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The sun rises over a Mosque on the Persian Gulf in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 9, 1990.
Lifestyle & Belief
Saudi Arabia’s conservative clerics have a new relationship with the government under Mohammed bin Salman
Build it, and they will come: The dream of King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia. Join the journey at outofedenwalk.org.
Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: Paul Salopek traverses the Arabian Peninsula via Saudi Arabia
Evacuees leave Saudi Amanah ship after landing at Jeddah port, Saudi Arabia, May 4, 2023. 
Conflict & Justice
Negotiations continue in Saudi Arabia to end fighting in Sudan
US President Joe Biden and Israel's Prime Minister Yair Lapid, sign a security pledge at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Jerusalem
Nuclear
US and Israel sign joint declaration on Iran’s nuclear program during Biden’s visit
A protester holds a placard as she takes part in a small demonstration against the holding of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in China, at Piccadilly Circus in London, Feb. 3, 2022. 
Human rights
Uyghurs in Saudi Arabia risk deportation to China
A photographer takes pictures of the Khurais oil field during a tour for journalists, 150 km east-northeast of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Energy
Saudi Arabia says it’s not responsible for high oil prices
The exterior of Pfizer in Groton, Conn. Pfizer Inc.
Top of The World
Pfizer announces ‘highly effective’ pill to combat COVID
Andreina Baduel wears a T-shirt that reads in Spanish "Justice and freedom" and holds a sign with pictures of people during a protest against political prisoners outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, known as the Helicoide, in Caracas
Top of The World
ICC to open investigation over alleged crimes against humanity in Venezuela
In this photo provided by the Saudi Royal Palace, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, greets US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry during the Green Initiative Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 25, 2021.
Climate Change
Oil giant Saudi Arabia says it wants to get to net-zero emissions by 2060. But critics question its roadmap.
A family visits across the U.S.-Canada border at the Peace Arch Historical State Park as a cyclist rides past on the Canadian side, in Blaine, Wash.
Top of The World
US to reopen land borders next month to fully vaccinated people
A group of four people sit in red chairs in an elegant room with green and gold-starred walls
Human rights
UK sanctions on Russians, Saudis are a ‘milestone’ for human rights, advocate says
Agnès Callamard, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, and Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, hold a news conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Dec. 3, 2019.
Khashoggi sons’ pardon of his killers is ‘final act of the parody of justice,’ UN expert says
Saudi Arabia Defense Attache arrives to meet with Saudi students at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida
Foreign policy
After Pensacola attack, Saudis pledge ‘whatever measures are necessary’ to prevent another
A sign reading "Future Investment Initiative" is visible between the heads of two men
Business, Economics and Jobs
Saudi ‘Davos’ turnout underscores costs of Khashoggi murder
A man poses for a photo against a tree, wearing a red jacket
Khashoggi colleague: ‘They took me away and they told me that I’m the target of a Saudi threat’
show
After Khashoggi, exiled journalists say ‘you can’t feel safe, anywhere you go’
Protesters hold signs with images of Saudi journalists on them
Justice
International community has ‘failed’ in the aftermath of Khashoggi’s death
The Misk Foundation, founded and chaired by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, held a controversial event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.
Saudi ‘Youth Forum’ at New York public library canceled after activists’ outcry
Flames emerge from flare stacks at Nahr Bin Umar oil field, north of Basra, Iraq, on Sept. 16, 2019.
What do attacks on Saudi oil facilities mean for US-Saudi relations?
Promoter Eddie Hearn announces Clash on the Dunes, a boxing rematch in Saudi Arabia between heavyweights Andy Ruiz, Jr and Anthony Joshua.
Sports
Are the Saudis using big sporting events to ‘sportswash’ their image?
Saudi women gather at a job fair in Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia grants women permission to apply for passports
Every year, millions of Muslims from around the world descend upon Mecca, Saudi Arabia for the Hajj.
Religion
Politics complicate the hajj spiritual journey for some Muslims
President Donald Trump met with Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani
Global Politics
The Gulf sees Qatar as ‘an outlaw,’ but Trump needs everyone to get along
People attend a symbolic funeral prayer for Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Conflict & Justice
UN report sees credible evidence linking Saudi crown prince to Khashoggi murder
US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters with National Security Adviser John Bolton looking on in the Oval Office at the White House
Foreign policy
Sen. Chris Murphy says Trump’s Iran plan is ‘blind escalation with no endgame’
The motorcade of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo enters the Saudi Royal Court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Foreign policy
US ‘should’ve done more’ to prevent college student’s execution in Saudi Arabia
A man holds a blackened piece of metal toward the camera
Saudi Arabia is buying more weapons than ever before
Kamal, a tour guide in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
A Troubled Kingdom
This Saudi tour guide wants you to come to his hometown, Jeddah
A woman wearing a black veil puts her blocks her face standing in a department store.
A Troubled Kingdom
At the Riyadh mall, Saudi women sell everything from lingerie to popcorn. Meet the kingdom’s new workforce.
Sharia Walker heads home after a long day at work in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
A Troubled Kingdom
Saudi women can drive. But gender equality isn’t yet ‘mainstream.’
Saudi women attend a concert featuring the Greek perfomer Yanni at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on December 3, 2017. 
Saudi Arabia isn’t known for fun. It has a $64 billion plan to turn it around.
A little girl wearing a red dress stands next to a dog near a destroyed building.
Global Politics
US Senate hands Trump historic double rebuke on Saudi Arabia and Yemen
Demonstrators from the Stop The War Coalition stage a protest, holding signs.
Senate could vote to pull US out of the Yemen war
US President Donald Trump is shown shaking hands with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a medium framed photograph.
Global Politics
Trump maintains business as usual with Saudis
Poster with a picture of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi lit up by candelight.
US slaps sanctions on 17 Saudis over Jamal Khashoggi killing, but not the Riyadh government
Saudi women attend the opening of a cinema at Riyadh Park mall, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia April 30, 2018.
Saudi Arabia loosened some of its strict social rules, but intimidation of activists continues
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman walks from a black car toward Lambeth Palace, London.
Conflict
Remarks raise prospect of nuclear arms race in the Middle East
Saudi Arabian Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal arrives at the Elysee palace in Paris, France
Finance
One of the wealthiest men on Earth is being detained, and no one is talking about it
Saudi men walk at the entrance to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is staying in Riyadh March 4, 2013.
Global Politics
What’s it like inside Riyadh’s five-star ‘prison’?
the launch by Houthi forces of a ballistic missile aimed at Riyadh's King Khaled Airport
Conflict
What the missile strike on Riyadh means
Donald Trump and Mohammad bin Salman
Global Politics
White House seen to be ‘hands off’ as Saudi crown prince grabs more power
Saudi rapper
Culture
How a rapper’s radio interview revealed a Saudi soft power campaign
Women fully covered in black carry jerrycans after they filled them up with drinking water from a charity tap, amid a cholera outbreak, in Sanaa. Graffiti on wall behind them reads "USA kills Yemeni people."
Conflict
‘We don’t have leverage.’ Why the US can’t stop the Yemen war.
Aviation ordinancemen organize 1000 pound MK-83 JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) bombs on their racks on the flight deck of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier in this archival photo taken in the northern Persian Gulf March 18, 2003.
Conflict
The US is dropping bombs quicker than it can make them
Saudi F-15
Conflict
Saudis made a $100 million US buy to upgrade its air force
Saudi Arabia Uncovered
Conflict
Saudi activists use secret cameras to show repression by authorities
Bilal and Ahmed
Conflict
A young Yemeni man wants you to know how war changed his life
People stand on the rubble of an electronics warehouse store after a Saudi-led air strike destroyed it in Yemen's capital Sanaa
Conflict
US senator to Saudis: Stop bombing civilians in Yemen
A woman leaves a polling station after casting her vote during municipal elections, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia December 12, 2015
Global Politics
Happy for the right to vote, now Saudi women vie for real democracy
President Barack Obama shakes hands with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tameem bin Hamad Al Thani, while hosting the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council at Camp David on May 14, 2015.
Conflict
A royal Saudi ‘snub’ isn’t stopping the flow of American weapons to the Gulf
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, attends a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on March 26, 2015.
Global Politics
Here’s the royal family you should really be watching
woman hijab
Development
Women in Saudi Arabia have two choices: ‘Either lose your mind or become a feminist’
Saudi Arabia's picture of King Abdullah Economic City in 20 years
Business
Saudi Arabia plans a $100 billion mega-city to help end its oil dependence
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's King Salman at the start of a meeting at Erga Palace in Riyadh.
Justice
Would you take 100 lashes to spare a Saudi blogger? They say they will
Khaloob Mushref, at lef, is a biology major, and Hassan Zakari, right, is a psychology major at Marymount University
Culture
Saudi students in the US have confidence in their new king
A Houthi fighter holds a rifle with a sticker portraying Ahmed Ali Abdulah Saleh, the eldest son of Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, as he rides a truck near the presidential palace in Sanaa. On Thursday, Houthi rebels welcomed proposed conce
Global Politics
3 ways to sound smart about Yemen
A burned out vehicle was all that was left behind in the attack on Saudi prince's motorcade in Paris.
Justice
Gunmen pull off a movie-style heist on a Saudi prince’s motorcade
Conflict & Justice
The number of global jihadis is increasing, but Americans aren’t necessarily less safe
Global Politics
Saudi Arabia, Gulf States Increasingly Skeptical of US Commitment
Arts, Culture & Media
Next time you’re at a Saudi wedding, don’t be surprised if you’re asked to do the penguin dance