A gunman has opened fire outside the Al-Salam Palace on Saturday, killing two members of the Saudi Royal Guard.
According to Saudi Arabian media, a security spokesman for the Interior Ministry confirmed that an attacker opened fire upon the royal palace after exiting a vehicle.
Two royal guards have been shot dead and three others were injured.
SPA reports that the gunman was shot dead.
The…
While allowing women to drive in Saudi Arabia is a step forward, there is still a long way to go
28th September 2017
Brittani Barger explains why allowing women to drive in Saudi Arabia is a welcome step, but argues that there is still a long way to go for women’s rights in the region.
The news that King Salman of Saudi Arabia issued a decree allowing women to be given driving…
King Salman of Saudi Arabia signs order which allows women to drive
26th September 2017
King Salman of Saudi Arabia’shas issued a decree which allows women to be given driving licences according to state media.
From June 2018, women driver will be allowed on the road for the first time in the country’s history.
Currently, Saudi Arabia is the…
Yesterday, His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan represented Her Majesty The Queen at the Sandhurst Sovereign’s Parade as the Reviewing Officer, where his son, Crown Prince Hussein, also graduated on Friday.
Before His Majesty inspected the parade, the Jordanian national anthem was played. The Sovereign’s Banner to the Sovereign’s Platoon, the Senior Division’s best performing…
The Supreme Order of the Renaissance (Wisam al-Nahda)is the middle Jordanian royal order; theOrder of Al-Hussein bin Aliis the highest order while the Order of the Star of Jordan and the Order of Independence are the third and fourth highest…
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has ordered that a newspaper columnist is suspended from the al-Jazirah newspaper after the columnist compared him to God.
The newspaper column written by Ramadan al-Anzi described King Salman as “Haleem” or forbearing and…
The deposed Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Muhammed bin Nayef, has reportedly been confined to his Palace in the city of Jeddah, as his successor consolidates his newfound power. Muhammed bin Nayef was replaced as Crown Prince by Mohammed bin Salman, the 31-year-old son of King Salman of Saudi Arabia, by his third wife, Fahda bint Falah bin Sultan bin Hathleen.
Muhammed bin Nayef was the nephew of…
His Majesty King Salman of Saudi Arabia has named his 31-year-old son, Mohammed bin Salman as Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Mohammed replaces the King’s nephew as His Majesty’s heir.
The announcement came just after midnight through a royal decree sent out to…
His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan is not known to just sit on the sidelines, and he recently helped to put out a fire near the Jordanian capital of Amman and the Royal Palace. He assisted the Jordanian Army and civil defence teams in extinguishing the blaze.
On Sunday…
On 10 June 1993, then-Prince Abdullah married Rania al Yassin in a traditional Muslim ceremony in Amman. The 31-year-old Prince and his 22-year-old fiancé had only been dating for a few months, after meeting at a dinner party in August of 1992, when they became engaged in January 1993. Abdullah would tell People Magazine a few years later that “It was love at first sight.” What…
