Saudi Arabia temporarily suspended entry of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) citizens to Mecca and Medina, the foreign ministry announced in a statement published by the state news agency Friday. The statement added it will exclude from that decision the citizens of the GCC who had been...

Saudi sports authorities have launched a women's football league, the latest unlikely extravaganza in the kingdom as it attempts to shrug off its ultra-conservative image. The first season of the 500,000 riyals ($133,000) league for women over 17 will be staged in the cities of Jeddah,...

Saudis Arabia’s Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said on Tuesday that OPEC+ should not be complacent about the coronavirus. “Everything serious requires attendance,” he told reporters. Prince Abdulaziz said he was confident that every member in the OPEC+ group was a...

Saudi Arabia has issued more than 400,000 tourist visas since it opened its borders to foreign vacationers in late September, the country’s top tourism official said on Monday. That number, which doesn’t include millions of religious pilgrims, drives home the challenges the conservative...