Opinion

Opinion

Many experts are now speculating that Islamic State is experiencing its death knell. It is losing territory, its finances are being drained and the number of foreign fighters recruited has reportedly down to a trickle,...

On May 27, Barack Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, the site of the world's first atomic bombing. Though highly photogenic, the visit will otherwise be...

The downgrading of Saudi banks by Moody’s on the 14 May comes as no surprise given the twin stresses of low oil prices and the launch of Vision 2030 by the Deputy Crown Prince...

It is a tall order that the deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has placed so emphatically on the table: to wean his country’s economy off oil dependency. But on the 25 April, ending...

Not long ago, chances were that I would not live long enough to be able to write this column. When I was a boy growing up in Saudi Arabia during the 1960s, the average...

Not since the Vietnam War has a foreign-policy issue transformed Western domestic politics in the way the threat from Islamic State (ISIS) has. Neither the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, nor the subsequent wars...

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of San Francisco made the formal announcement in court Thursday morning: Volkswagen has reached an agreement in principle to resolve the clean diesel emissions cheating mess in the U.S....

Saudi Arabia's decision to scupper negotiations on a coordinated oil output freeze in Doha on Sunday seems to confirm a significant shift in the kingdom's oil policy. For decades, the kingdom has insisted it does...

With the price of oil on a slow bounceback ahead of the OPEC meeting in Doha and Saudi Arabia on a diplomatic charm offensive that has taken King Salman to Cairo and Ankara in...

As they prepare to leave office, presidents often seek to do something about nuclear weapons. President Bill Clinton tried to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, only to be blocked by a Republican Congress. President...