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3 Apr 2018, 12:52 pm by William Ford
The president added that if Saudi Arabia wants U.S. troops to remain in Syria, then the kingdom should increase its financial support for U.S. operations there. [read post]
29 Mar 2018, 5:27 am by Barry Sookman
The FairPlay coalition comprising more than 25 organizations representing hundreds of thousands of members of Canada’s creative community made a reasonable proposal to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Canada’s telecommunications and broadcast regulator, to address the scourge of online copyright infringement.[1]  The proposal, which involves website blocking, was immediately attacked by anti-copyright activist Michael Geist… [read post]
26 Mar 2018, 10:59 am by William Ford
” Yemen’s Houthis launched a multipronged ballistic missile attack against Saudi Arabia late Sunday evening, the Washington Post reports. [read post]
23 Mar 2018, 3:48 am
The government sent a protest note to Saudi Arabia on Monday (19/03), after an Indonesian national was beheaded in Mecca. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 2:18 am by Family Law
From CNN: Mothers in Saudi Arabia can now retain custody of their children after divorce without filing lawsuits, according to a Saudi Information Ministry statement Monday, meaning the kingdom is breaking ranks with several other countries in the region that... [read post]
20 Mar 2018, 7:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
MBS is eager to shift to a more moderate form of Islam in the kingdom, but consistently elides Saudi Arabia’s role in propagating Sunni extremism even as he characterizes Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei as a “new Hitler. [read post]
16 Mar 2018, 9:27 am by Jordan Brunner
Paul Rosenzweig posted another edition of Bits and Bytes, flagging Iran’s cyberattack on Saudi Arabia, lies traveling further than truth, and Berkeley's efforts at surveillance and transparency. [read post]
15 Mar 2018, 10:12 am by William Ford
The U.S. provides Saudi Arabia with aerial refueling of its fighter aircraft and sends the kingdom precision-guided weapons. [read post]
13 Mar 2018, 4:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
Saudi Arabia’s quest for an array of nuclear energy reactors is also a likely subject of discussion—and controversy. [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 6:00 am by Bruce Riedel
Iran has every reason to perpetuate a conflict that costs its rival Saudi Arabia some $5 billion per month and costs Iran a pittance. [read post]
25 Feb 2018, 7:00 am by Kristin Smith Diwan
Saudi Arabia has been the source of most of these media-driven campaigns, which have instrumentalized the kingdom’s relations with dissident Qatari royals and cross-border tribes, along with its religious authority. [read post]
23 Feb 2018, 8:49 am by Jason Kilborn
Saudi Arabia's King Salman has approved a new bankruptcy law. [read post]
22 Feb 2018, 1:20 pm by William Ford
The Gulf kingdom’s decision to stand with Pakistan comes in the wake of Islamabad’s commitment to send upwards of 1,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to augment the kingdom’s forces and influence throughout the Middle East, and it was a rare instance of disagreement between Washington and Riyadh. [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 6:21 am by Michael Geist
Some groups say that there are 27 countries with website blocking, but we excluded five countries due to widespread censorship in their blocking systems: Saudi Arabia (which features government-backed Internet blocking), Indonesia (which has blocked 800,000 sites), Malaysia (which regularly uses the power to block legitimate sites), Turkey (which uses real-time large scale blocking of sites including Wikipedia) and South Korea (which uses censors to block access to thousands of web… [read post]
28 Jan 2018, 7:00 am by C. Christine Fair
To establish more productive ties with Muslim states and to woo Saudi Arabia, Ziaur made crucial constitutional changes. [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 8:00 am by Shehab Makahleh, Alex Vatanka
The Kingdom of Jordan, a long-time U.S. ally in the Middle East, is looking to reorient its regional policies. [read post]
9 Jan 2018, 10:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
  Royal Infighting over Austerity Measures in Saudi Arabia As popular protests ebbed in Iran this week, Saudi Arabia faced a different kind of protest—one from within the royal family. [read post]
30 Dec 2017, 5:21 pm by Jason Kelley
Snapchat and Medium Censor Qatari Media At Request of Saudi Arabia The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s most prolific censors. [read post]