Worldfocus contributing blogger Dwight Bashir writes about recent skirmishes between Saudi Arabia and Houthi rebels in northern Yemen. Iran and Saudi Arabia, have each spent billions of dollars exporting competing religio-political ideologies in the region.
All Posts Tagged With: "Saudi Arabia"
Perspectives
November 18, 2009
Saudi Arabia and Iran fighting proxy war in northern Yemen
Daily News Brief
November 10, 2009
Today: Korean clash, Saudi strikes and endangered koalas
Stories brought to you from the Worldfocus newsroom. Today: continuing clashes on the Saudi-Yemen border; an environmental group says the Australian koala population is dropping precipitously; and Japan increases humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.
Interview
October 20, 2009
Saudi Arabia rehabilitating Al-Qaeda suspects
In recent years, the Saudi government has been battling homegrown terror suspects and even has a program to rehabilitate al-Qaeda militants. Daljit Dhaliwal talks to historian Robert Lacey about the latest developments in Saudi Arabia.
Video
October 9, 2009
Iranian scientist still missing after June pilgrimage
An Iranian scientist remains missing after a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in June. Many in Iran assume that Amiri defected, but the U.S. denies any involvement. Nazanine Moshiri of Al Jazeera English reports from Tehran.
Mohammad Al-Kassim (blog)
October 7, 2009
A view from the East
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is on a two-day visit to Syria, his first since ascending to the throne in 2005, in a further sign of warming ties between the two Arab states.
In the Newsroom (blog)
September 25, 2009
Reading the Middle Eastern press on Iran’s nuclear plant
Worldfocus producer Mohammad Al-Kassim blogs about how Middle Eastern news media outlets covered the news that Iran is building a second nuclear site.
Video
September 24, 2009
Saudi Arabia opens first co-ed university
The recently-opened King Abdullah University of Science and Technology is Saudi Arabia's first mixed-gender university. Women will also not be required to wear veils at the school.
Perspectives (blog)
September 21, 2009
Q&A: A Saudi woman’s perspective on polygamy
Islam allows men to have up to four wives at a time. A Worldfocus contributing blogger speaks with a divorced Saudi woman -- whose father and ex-husband each had two wives -- for her perspective on polygamy.
Video
February 10, 2009
Obama: Al-Qaeda, bin Laden will not operate with impunity
Eric Rosand of the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation discusses how President Barack Obama's approach to counterterrorism will differ from that of the previous administration and the major terror threats that the U.S. faces.
Video
January 13, 2009
Gaza war shifts balance of power in Middle East
Tamara Cofman Wittes of The Brookings Institution discusses how the war in Gaza has put pressure on U.S. allies like Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
