Saudi Arabia
Allegations in the Iranian and Israeli press that Saudi Arabia is cooperating with Israel on possible attack against Iran will raise tensions between the Saudi government and Shiites....
News that Saudi Arabia has agreed to allow Israel to use its airspace to attack Iran will threaten the internal stability of the Kingdom, even though Saudi Arabia has denied the reports....
The resignation of prominent Saudi reform writer Jamal Khashoggi confirms recent indications that the Saudi authorities are slowing down the reforms they have started....
Saudi Arabia has indicated that it plans to move to allowing indirect foreign investment in its stock market, Tadawul....
The ceasefire between the Houthi rebels and the government seems to be holding. This could mark the end of the Sixth Saada War, allowing the government to concentrate on the Southern separatists....
Al Gosaibi family has filed a court case against Al Sanea in New York in their long running family business dispute....
Increasing tensions between the West and Iran increases the risk of Iranian attacks against Western interests in the GCC....
A leading Kuwaiti daily reported government sources as saying that there is an increased Al Qaeda threat in the Gulf, in view of the ongoing Yemen war....
Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council vote to make it more difficult to pass the death penalty indicates that the government is moving ahead with reforming plans, despite reservations by traditionalists....
Saudi Arabia is now well into a full engagement fighting the Houthi rebels. The longer the conflict continue, the greater the risk of it turning into a local Saudi problem....
The Saudi involvement in the Sa’ada war along the Yemeni-Saudi border is turning the conflict into a regional one, with implications for Shiite-Sunni relations in other GCC states, such as Bahrain....
The sixth Sa’ada war that started off as an internal civil war in Yemen has become a regional conflict....
Tensions between Sunnis and Shiites in Yemen and Saudi Arabia have erupted, as well as the deteriorating situation in Yemen, contributing to an increase of hostility between the two regimes....
Fighting in Saadi, Yemen has spread into Saudi Arabia. This threatens to widen the conflict into a longer-term regional one, and result in increasing the risk of ethnic instability in the GCC region....
Clashes were reported between Saudi security forces and Yemeni Shiite rebels as Saudi’s tried to construct a border fence. This threatens to spill into increasing tensions with Saudi Shiites....
Saudi King Abdullah has ousted a traditionalist cleric who criticized the newly opened King Abdullah University of Science and Technology....
GCC states announced plans for a new US $2 billion agricultural fund in coming months to secure food supplies by buying stakes in existing agricultural firms....
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The announcement that the GCC-wide rail like will start operating in 2017 is a welcome move for all GCC states....
The attempted assassination of Prince Mohammed bin Nayef by Al Qaeda confirms that Al Qaeda and the traditionalist camp within the regime have more differences than there is common between them....
