Embassy staff are used to postings around the world but in Riyadh, they live alongside government ministers in the ...

It’s time to go local… Saudi restaurants in Riyadh come in spades, and we’ve cherry picked truly the best ones for you to dig into, hand first. Saudi cuisine always has a special place in hearts of ...

In the deep south of Saudi Arabia, a remote village preserves a rare method of making haneeth. The process relies on underground heat, long cooking times, and techniques passed down through ...

Saudi Arabia has publicly accused the United Arab Emirates – a fellow Gulf Arab state and former partner in the Yemen war – of undermining its national security, an unusually blunt charge that exposes ...

Saudi Arabia executed 356 people in 2025, new data reveals, one of its highest figures on record. Death sentences were carried out on at least four women, two people for crimes they committed as ...

Saudi Arabia has responded decisively and forcefully to the recent capture of two southern Yemeni provinces by the Southern Transitional Council (STC), a political organization backed by the United ...

Welcome to Al-Monitor Riyadh. As the year draws to a close, cultural institutions in the kingdom are celebrating Saudi Arabia’s rich artistic heritage. In AlUla, the seventh edition of Winter at ...

Two hours south of Jeddah, on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast, the Al Shuaiba solar farm blankets 50 square kilometres of desert. The first phase of the project, started in 2024, produces 600 megawatts ...

Saudi Arabia appears to be slowly and quietly rolling back its near-blanket bans on alcohol consumption, signaling perhaps another instance of the Kingdom’s strict religious edicts yielding to its ...

Saudi Arabia is loosening its staunch restrictions on alcohol sales for non-Muslim foreign residents, but only if they earn enough money to qualify. Many practicing Muslims, particularly those in ...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s recent White House visit has crystallized a fundamental shift in U.S.-Saudi relations: Washington no longer has the leverage to demand Saudi normalization with ...

In March 2023, two men stood shaking hands in front of a blinding array of flashing cameras while the international community—and especially observers from across the Middle East—watched in disbelief ...