Writer: Abdullah Al-Shihri

April 8, 2014
2:30 pm

Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan at his palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2008 (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)

Saudi intelligence chief returns to post

Prince Bandar bin Sultan said to have had surgery abroad; analysts thought he’d been sidelined for backing Syrian radicals

By Abdullah Al-Shihri

October 26, 2013
2:15 pm

Saudi Arabian woman drives car as part of a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving, Friday, June 17, 2011 (photo credit: AP Photo/Change.org, File)

Activists: Saudi women’s driving protest kicks off

Armed with sunglasses and a black headscarf, Riyadh resident makes it all the way to the grocery store without being stopped

By Abdullah Al-Shihri and Aya Batrawy

October 18, 2013
12:42 pm

The United Nations Security Council votes on a resolution (illustrative photo: AP/Craig Ruttle)

Saudi Arabia rejects seat on UN Security Council

Riyadh says United Nations body has failed in its duties to bring peace to Syria, solve the Israel-Palestinian conflict

By Abdullah Al-Shihri

January 12, 2013
8:22 am

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar/File)

Saudi king grants women seats on advisory council

Female council members will still enter building from special gates, sit in reserved seats, wear a niqab, and pray in segregated areas

By Abdullah Al-Shihri

November 6, 2012
1:59 pm

British Prime Minister David Cameron (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)

British PM: Grant Assad safe passage to end conflict

David Cameron says that if the Syrian leader wants to leave it ‘could be arranged’

By Abdullah Al-Shihri and David Stringer

April 28, 2012
6:23 pm

A protester is detained by security forces in front of the Saudi Embassy in Cairo, April 28, 2012 (photo credit: Ahmed Gomaa/AP)

Saudi Arabia closes embassy in Egypt following protests

Egyptian government issues statement expressing its ‘regret’; says Egyptian people hold Saudi Arabia in ‘great esteem’

By Abdullah Al-Shihri and Sarah El Deeb