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...

Saudi Arabia said Friday it had intercepted several ballistic missiles fired from Yemen towards Saudi cities as finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 major economies gathered for a meeting in Riyadh. The Iran-aligned Houthi movement launched the missiles from the...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Riyadh Wednesday for talks with Saudi leaders focused on countering Tehran, his first visit since a top Iranian general's killing sent regional tensions soaring. The top US diplomat, whose visit follows his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa, will...

The United Arab Emirates has started loading fuel rods into the first reactor at its Barakah nuclear plant, operators said Wednesday, two days after regulators gave the green light. On Monday, the national nuclear regulator announced it has issued the operating license for the first of the...