Saudi Arabia’s state-owned defense company has forged a deal with Spanish shipbuilder Navantia for a joint venture to build five warships, state media said Thursday. The agreement was signed between the state-owned Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) and Spain’s shipbuilder, Navantia, on Thursday, paving the way for the two sides ...
Saudi Arabia has detained a prominent Islamic scholar and three of his sons, activists said Thursday, in a widening crackdown against clerics, intellectuals and rights campaigners. Rights campaigners and online activists said Sheikh Safar al-Hawali, a Sunni scholar and leading figure in Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Sahwa reformist movement, had been ...
