In the summer of 2015 Mohammed bin Salman, then Saudi defence minister and third in line to the throne, turned his country’s foreign policy on its head and gave a covert green light for Russia’s intervention in Syria, according to a lawsuit by a former top intelligence official. In...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi movement in Yemen said Sunday in a statement carried by state news agency SPA that it had intercepted and downed a ballistic missile launched towards civilian targets in southern Saudi Arabia. Cross-border attacks by Iran-aligned Houthi forces...

Al-Qaeda militants in war-torn Yemen executed a dentist accused of spying for the government and guiding US drone strikes targeting the Islamist extremists, a local official said Sunday. The jihadis shot Motthar al-Youssoufi, then crucified his corpse and left it outside his health centre,...

Syrian rebel group has shot down two Russian drones in northwestern Idlib province, a military source said Sunday.   Al-Fateh al-Mubin, an operations room of rebels and jihadist factions, shot down two attack drones in the eastern countryside of Larakia and the Jabal al-Zawiyah...