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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

Saudi Arabia

A handout picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) shows Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Riyadh October 9, 2024. (SPA / AFP)
October 9, 2024, 11:44 pm
Saudi prince hosts top Iran diplomat for talks as regional tensions simmer
Kingdom’s Mohammed Bin Salman discusses thawing ties and regional developments with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Iran as Israeli retaliation for strike looms
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A diplomat observes the room at the opening of the 57th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 9, 2024. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
October 9, 2024, 10:18 pm
Saudi Arabia narrowly misses out on UN Human Rights Council seat
Riyadh falls seven votes shy of Marshall Islands, losing out on chance to join influential UN body; miss comes as rights group says executions in kingdom at all-time high
By Michelle Nichols and Pesha Magid
President Isaac Herzog at a memorial ceremony for former president Shimon Peres, at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, on September 4, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 6, 2024, 10:09 pm
Herzog exhorts Iranians, Lebanese to ‘rise up’ against Tehran-led anti-Israel axis
In interview on Saudi TV, president calls current moment ‘a golden opportunity’ for moderate states to reshape Middle East, suggests ‘NATO-like structure’ to block radicalism
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
A handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority's press office (PPO) shows Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) meeting with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Riyadh on August 27, 2024. (Thaer GHANAIM / PPO / AFP)
October 1, 2024, 10:05 am
Ending embargo, Saudi Arabia to send $60 million to Palestinian Authority – report
In apparent warming of ties, kingdom to give funds to cash-strapped Ramallah in four monthly payments, in arrangement struck during Abbas visit to Riyadh
By ToI Staff
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
September 28, 2024, 11:27 am
Europeans, Arab and Muslim nations launch a new initiative for a Palestinian state
Norway and Saudi Arabia co-host a conference attended by 90 countries on sidelines of UN General Assembly to accelerate statehood, bolster two-state solution
By Edith M. Lederer
National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz (left) speaks at the Middle East America Dialogue (MEAD) summit in Washington, DC, September 8, 2024. (Itzik Balnitzki / Courtesy)
September 9, 2024, 11:50 am
Gantz says military focus should shift from Gaza to Lebanon: ‘We’re late on this’
At Washington summit, National Unity chair says ‘story of Hamas is old news,’ while hostage point man Gal Hirsch says terror group unmotivated to strike deal when pressure is on Israel
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman meets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, not pictured, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 20, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)
August 19, 2024, 11:19 am
Former Saudi official alleges MBS forged king’s signature on Yemen war decree
Exiled intelligence official claims Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman took advantage of father’s deteriorating mental capacity to authorize ground intervention against Houthis
By Jon Gambrell
A member of Saudi Arabia's special forces stands in front of a military vehicle during the 'World Defense Show 2024,' north of the Saudi capital of Riyadh, February 4, 2024. (Fayez Nureldine / AFP)
August 12, 2024, 11:18 pm
US ends ban on offensive arms sale to Riyadh, eyeing Saudi help on Gaza and Iran
Biden slapped sanctions on the desert kingdom after thousands of civilians were estimated killed in its war on Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels
By AFP and ToI Staff
This infographic released by the IDF on August 10, 2024, shows terror operatives it says it killed in an airstrike on a Hamas-Islamic Jihad command room at a school complex in Gaza City. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 10, 2024, 5:53 pm
Amid global criticism, Israel names 19 it says it killed in terror HQ at Gaza school
White House ‘deeply concerned’ by strike; Egypt, Qatar fume; top EU diplomat slams unjustified ‘massacres’; IDF dismisses Hamas claim 90 killed, says no major damage to school complex
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a Joint Ministerial Meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-US Strategic Partnership discussing the humanitarian situation in Gaza, at the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretariat in Riyadh on April 29, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool/AFP)
August 9, 2024, 11:34 pm
US expected to end three-year ban on weapons sales to Saudi Arabia
Embargo imposed following high civilian casualties in Saudi war against Houthi terror group, but rapid changes in region following Oct. 7 made Biden administration reconsider
By Humeyra Pamuk, Patricia Zengerle and Steve Holland
(R to L) Deputy Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia Waleed Al-Khuraiji and Azerbaijan Yalchin Rafiyev, Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour and Jordanian Foreign Minster Ayman Safadi, attend the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Jeddah on August 7, 2024. (Amer HILABI / AFP)
August 7, 2024, 10:15 pm
Saudi Arabia calls Haniyeh killing a ‘blatant violation’ of Iran’s sovereignty
Comment by deputy FM during extraordinary meeting of Organization of Islamic Cooperation is first reaction by Iran’s regional rival to assassination in Tehran
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Rockets are fired from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip toward Israel on August 5, 2024. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)
August 7, 2024, 7:34 am
Jordan, Qatar, Saudis hesitant to join US-driven postwar peacekeeping force in Gaza
While Egypt and UAE are conditionally on board, neighbors have held off so as not to be seen as ‘protecting’ Israel from Palestinians, officials tell ToI; PA presents its own plan
By Jacob Magid
Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman meets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, not pictured, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 20, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)
July 26, 2024, 1:21 pm
Top Israeli official insists Saudi normalization still possible before US elections
US, Israeli sources recently said window for deal before US elections has closed due to Congress schedule; PM, in Congress speech, said regional alliance is needed to counter Iran
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Iranian demonstrators hold up portraits of the Islamic Republic's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and wave Bahraini flags during a protest after the Friday noon prayer in Tehran on May 18, 2012, held in response to a government call to protest a plan to unite Bahrain with Saudi Arabia that Tehran has said is a US plot. (Atta KENARE / AFP)
June 24, 2024, 2:52 pm
Iran, Bahrain agree to discuss restoring ties in latest Gulf-Tehran thaw
Foreign ministers meet on sidelines of summit in Tehran, nearly 8 years after relationship soured over execution of Shiite cleric; move follows Saudi detente with Iran
By AFP
A man affected by the scorching heat is helped by another as Muslim pilgrims arrive to perform the symbolic 'stoning of the devil' ritual as part of the hajj pilgrimage in Mina, near Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca, on June 16, 2024. (Fadel Senna/AFP)
June 23, 2024, 1:43 pm
Over 1,000 pilgrims dead during hajj in Saudi, officials say
Pilgrimage took place under soaring temperatures, and unauthorized visitors without hotel rooms had nowhere to escape heat; no official comment from kingdom
By Samy Magdy
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