
A Saudi soldier was killed in a cross-border firefight with Yemeni troops, the interior ministry said Sunday. A border post was attacked overnight by Popular Committees forces during which one soldier wounded in the exchange died before reaching hospital. He was the latest of at least 111 Saudi soldiers to ...

Saudi Arabia on Thursday projected a 2017 budget deficit of $53 billion, a drop of almost half from a record shortfall reported last year after the world’s top oil exporter was hit by falling crude prices. According to a cabinet statement, next year’s budget projects spending of 890 billion riyals ...