Saudi Arabia has long been an elephant in the room in discussions of ethics in British foreign policy and concern for human rights abuses abroad.
Iran has accused Saudi Arabia of targeting its embassy with an air strike in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa.
Dozens of mostly Muslim countries from across the Middle East, Africa and Asia have joined a new military alliance to combat terrorism, Saudi Arabia has announced.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Nasser al-Wuhayshi has been killed in a US air strike in Yemen, the Islamist group has confirmed.
Saudi war planes have bombarded the rebel-held Yemeni capital of Sana’a just hours before a five-day humanitarian ceasefire was set to begin.