As the Kingdom continues to spotlight its finest innovations at LEAP, artificial intelligence has been central to what the brightest minds are driving for internal operational transformations at leading companies including Red Sea Global and WeBook, which are fueling the nation’s economic boom in green technology, tourism, and international relations. Speaking to Arab...

Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Fahd Al-Dosari met Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia Rania Al-Mashat at the UN body’s headquarters in Beirut on Monday. During the meeting, they discussed ways to enhance cooperation between the Kingdom and the commission, as well as several topics of mutual interest, the Saudi...

    Confronting challenges and threats requires political coordination, defense integration, and collective military readiness, Saudi Arabia’s defense minister said on Monday. Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the Strategic Political and Defense Committee of the Makkah Joint Defense Agreement in Istanbul, Prince Khalid bin Salman highlighted the depth of the strategic relations between the...

As he prepares to assume charge of India’s diplomatic mission in Saudi Arabia, ambassador-designate Vipul sees the strategic relationship between the two countries scaling newer heights in the coming years, driven by converging interests, a strong institutional framework and opportunities created by the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 reform program. Having received his credentials from Indian President...

  When Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkiye signed the Makkah Joint Defense Agreement on Aug. 7, they went significantly further than pledging closer military cooperation. The agreement contains a collective-defense commitment: An external armed attack against any one of the three states will be regarded as an attack against them all. That provision immediately elevated...