The ditching of Saudi Prince Bandar as the oil kingdom's spymaster does not portend a retreat by Saudi Arabia from its covert dirty wars or its hard-line anti-Shia hostility. The move has more to do with Saudi problems of maintaining internal stability, while also giving the Saudi rulers a scapegoat over its failure at regime change in Syria. Nearly ...

Syria now views Saudi Arabia as its number one enemy and accuses it of trying to destroy the country by arming jihadists and other rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad. The oil-rich Gulf monarchies have sided with the opposition from the start of Syria's conflict in March 2011, with Riyadh leading calls for the fall of Assad. Syrian ...

[caption id="attachment_51744" align="alignright" width="180"] A picture dated June 13, 2003 shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher (L) attending their father's funeral in Damascus on June 13, 2000.[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that as long as Saudi Arabia continues sending arms and money to Takfiri ...

[caption id="attachment_59283" align="alignright" width="180"] Foreign-backed militants operating in Syria (file photo)[/caption] Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies in the Persian Gulf region will strengthen military support for the foreign-backed Takfiri militants in Syria, says a US daily. TheWashington Postreported on Sunday that the move came after ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi called on Saudi Arabia to change its position on Syria and stop inviting foreigners to war on a Muslim country. "We hope that Saudi Arabia's stance which entails inviting foreigners to attack an Islamic country of the region will ...

Saudi Arabia reportedly plans to use the proceeds from its recent production hike of 400,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) to fund its supply of weapons to the militants waging war inside Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Lebanon. The development comes amid reports by informed sources that the Persian Gulf kingdom has put the head of its intelligence agency and former ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The UN has received intelligence showing that 60% of Saudi arms shipments to Syria have been delivered to al-Qaeda forces, sources said. According to a report by the Lebanese daily al-Akhbar, the UN's information shows that the al-Nusrah Front and the Islamic Emirate of Iraq and Sham affiliated to the terrorist al-Qaeda organization ...