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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud speaks during a joint press conference with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi at the foreign ministry in Islamabad on July 27, 2021. AFP

Saudi Arabia deplores ‘negative activity’ of Iran in the region

Saudi Arabia

Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (L) and President Michel Aoun (C) meeting Premier-designate Najib Mikati in Beirut on July 26, 2021. (AFP)

Saudi Arabia shows little interest in Lebanon’s political crisis

Saudi Arabia

Saudi staff checking attendants’ mobiles for vaccine certificates or a negative COVID-19 test at the entrance of a theatre in Riyadh, last June. (AFP)

Saudi Arabia reopens to tourists after 17-month closure

Saudi Arabia

A Saudi Aramco engineer monitors the central control room of the Khurais oil field, 150 kilometres east-northeast of Riyadh. (AP)

Saudi Aramco acknowledges facing $50M cyber extortion

Lebanon

Lebanese Army Commander General Joseph Aoun (R) and French Army Chief of Staff General Francois Lecointre, salute the flag in Paris, last May. (AFP)

Western nations count on army to pull Lebanon out of crisis

Saudi Arabia

A Muslim pilgrim prays in front of the rocky hill known as Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual hajj pilgrimage, July 19. (AP)

Pandemic transforms hajj, future of pilgrimage

hajj

Pilgrims arrive at the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine, at the Grand mosque in the holy city of Meccca, at the start of the Hajj season. (AFP)

Pilgrims arrive in Mecca for second downsized hajj

Iranian

A file picture shows a dry river in Isfahan, Iran. (REUTERS)

Protests continue in drought-hit Iranian northwest, demonstrator killed

Saudi Arabia

Pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba as they keep social distancing in the Muslim holy city of Mecca. (AP)

Saudi hosts second downsized hajj amid health precautions