Saudi Arabia aims to sell about 5% of state oil company Saudi Aramco in an IPO next year, and stock exchanges from the UK to Japan are vying for what may be the world’s richest IPO.

Saudi Arabia is not all that fond of competition — the kingdom has long reaped rich reward from its Opec membership.

The US senate passed legislation that would allow families of 9/11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia, rejecting the fierce objections of a US ally and setting congress on a collision course with the Obama administration.

Saudi Arabia has shot down a ballistic missile launched toward the kingdom from Yemen.

At almost any other time, an escalating diplomatic conflict between Opec members Iran and Saudi Arabia would mean a spike in oil prices.

Sectarian split deepens across Middle East in wake of executions

Saudi Arabia has often counted on having the oil market’s equivalent of a nuclear option.

Since Saudi Arabia's foundation, its leaders have tried to keep a friendly regime in power in Yemen to prevent it from posing a threat. However, Mohamad Bazzi says this time the stakes are higher

Oil prices rallied for a second straight day yesterday after Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies began air strikes in Yemen, sparking fears of a bigger Middle East battle that could disrupt world crude supplies.

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has died, according to Saudi state TV. He was 90.

US President Barack Obama sparred with Russia’s Vladimir Putin over how to end the war in Syria during an icy encounter at a G8 summit where divisions over the conflict eclipsed the rest of the agenda.

France’s president has vowed his country will stand against instability in Lebanon, two weeks after the assassination of a senior Lebanese intelligence official sparked clashes between pro- and anti-Syrian groups.

Reconciliation talks between Bahrain’s Sunni monarchy and the Shiite opposition have started for the first time since anti-government protests erupted in the Gulf kingdom, an opposition figure said.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today boldly declared that Iran is ready to help fill an imminent power vacuum in Iraq, while also defending the neighbouring country’s embattled Shiite prime minister who has been criticised by US politicians.

A son of Osama bin Laden confirmed today he had married a British woman nearly twice his age, and voiced outrage at the publicity the wedding attracted.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad begins his first official visit to Saudi Arabia today, a trip that many in the region hope will help calm sectarian tensions threatening the Middle East as well as conflicts in Iraq and Lebanon.

AN Irishman was shot dead yesterday at his office in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, the Government confirmed last night.

SAUDI Arabia vowed yesterday to strike with an iron fist at militants who attacked a Saudi Arabian petrochemical site and pledged every effort to protect foreigners, five of whom died in the shooting spree.

A WESTERN engineering firm yesterday said it was evacuating all 90 foreign staff from the Saudi city of Yanbu after gunmen shot dead five of their colleagues.

The US is closing its embassy in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh tomorrow because of terror threats.

THE United States, Britain, and Germany have closed their diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia after Washington warned that more terror attacks in the oil rich kingdom were “imminent.”

Saudi Arabia will not join any war against Saddam Hussein until it has seen UN evidence Iraq has been developing weapons of mass destruction, Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal says.

Saudi Arabia has given foreign oil firms such as Royal Dutch/Shell Group and ExxonMobil Corp until Nov 1 to respond "positively" to a final offer made by Riyadh over three large gas projects, or risk losing the deal, Asharq Al-Awsat daily reported citing Saudi sources.