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SAUDI ARABIA SAYS ARRESTS 17 ISLAMIC STATE ATTACK PLOTTERS
Fourteen of those arrested are Saudi nationals, including one woman, ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki told state television news channel Ekhbariya, which broadcast photographs of the accused... READ MORE›
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FIRST WOMEN ELECTED TO OFFICE IN SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi officials first proposed allowing women to vote in 2005, according to Human Rights Watch... READ MORE›
19 WOMEN ELECTED IN SAUDI ARABIA'S HISTORIC MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
Saudi Arabia's second largest and most cosmopolitan city, Jiddah, elected two women, as did one of the most conservative regions, Qassim... READ MORE›
'NINE DIE' IN SAUDI GUN BATTLES
In the first incident on Monday, masked gunmen killed at least five people in the town of Dalwah, a Shia Muslim area in eastern Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›
SAUDI ARABIA SAYS IT STOPPED ISIS ATTACKS 400 HELD
Meanwhile, reports emerged Saturday that the Islamic State group used projectile-delivered poison gas against Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria on several occasions last month... READ MORE›
FIRE DESTROYS ISLAMIC CENTRE BUILDING IN HOUSTON IN SUSPECTED ARSON ATTACK AND HATE CRIME
Islamic centre in Texas set on fire in suspected arson attack and hate crime... READ MORE›
EARLY RESULTS SHOW 5 SAUDI WOMEN ELECTED FOR 1ST TIME
Saudi Arabia's second largest and most cosmopolitan city, Jiddah, elected two women, as did one of the most conservative regions, Qassim... READ MORE›
ISIL CLAIMS SAUDI MOSQUE SUICIDE BOMBING
At least four people killed and 18 wounded after attack on a Shia mosque in al-Ahsa, says Interior Ministry... READ MORE›
SAUDI ARABIA SAYS IT BROKE UP PLANNED ISIS ATTACKS
In the Syria attacks, Isis militants launched 17 artillery projectiles against YPG forces stationed to the south of the village of Tell Brak in Hassakeh province... READ MORE›
SAUDI WOMEN WIN HANDFUL OF SEATS IN ELECTIONS TO LOCAL COUNCILS
Saudi women win handful of seats in elections to local councils... READ MORE›
AMERICANS AMONG MILITANT SUSPECTS DETAINED IN SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi Arabia in 2014 declared Islamic State a terrorist organization and has detained hundreds of its supporters... READ MORE›
TWO CHARGED AFTER CANADIAN POLICE FOIL VALENTINE'S DAY MASS MURDER PLOT
Please read our Canadian police have foiled a Valentine's Day plot by three suspects to massacre people at a shopping centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia... READ MORE›
AMERICANS NOT BELIEVED AMONG MILITANTS DETAINED BY SAUDIS
Saudi Arabia in 2014 declared Islamic State a terrorist organisation and has detained hundreds of its supporters... READ MORE›
SAUDI ARABIA 'THWARTS ISLAMIC STATE ATTACKS,' HOLDS 400
Meanwhile, reports emerged Saturday that the Islamic State group used projectile-delivered poison gas against Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria on several occasions last month... READ MORE›
AMERICANS REPORTEDLY DETAINED IN SAUDI ARABIA ON TERRORISM CHARGES
Attacks by supporters of Islamic State in Saudi Arabia include two bombings and two mass shootings at Shi'ite mosques... READ MORE›
20 FEMALE CANDIDATES ELECTED IN FIRST SAUDI POLL ALLOWING WOMEN TO VOTE, RUN FOR OFFICE
Saudi Arabia's second-largest and most cosmopolitan city, Jiddah, also elected two women, as did one of the most conservative regions, Qassim... READ MORE›
SAUDI ARABIA MOSQUE BOMBING THAT KILLED 15 CLAIMED BY 'NEW' ISLAMIC STATE GROUP
Saudi arabia mosque bombing that killed 15 claimed by new islamic state group... READ MORE›
ISIS BRANCH CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR SAUDI ARABIA SUICIDE ATTACK
In November, ISIS was accused of being behind the shooting and killing of eight worshippers in the eastern Saudi Arabian village of al-Ahsa... READ MORE›
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100 WOMEN: THE SAUDI WOMEN CHALLENGING MALE GUARDIANSHIP
Women are using new methods to press Saudi Arabia's government to end the male guardianship system... READ MORE›
SAUDI POLICE KILL EXTREMIST SUSPECTED OF PLANNING MOSQUE SUICIDE BOMBING
The same day, separate suicide bomb attacks targeted a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia and the US Consulate in Jeddah... READ MORE›
MEANWHILE IN THE PERSIAN GULF... A VERY IMPATIENT PRINCE 'MIGHT KILL HIS KING', CLAIMS AN IRANIAN GENERAL
Washington The war of words between regional nemeses Iran and Saudi Arabia has taken a curious, if not outrageous, turn... READ MORE›
TURKEY TO MAKE FURTHER DISMISSALS IN MINISTRIES, COASTGUARD, ARMY
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SAUDI ARABIA BLAMED FOR SPAWNING JIHADISTS IS AGAIN THEIR TARGET
Ideologically, the battle between the Islamic State and Saudi Arabia is essentially over whose model for Islamic statehood is correct... READ MORE›
AMID SERIES OF HIGH-PROFILE ISLAMIC STATE ATTACKS, THE ONLY RED LINES LEFT ARE DRAWN IN BLOOD
The nature of the attacks and their apparently coordinated timing suggested the Islamic State group could be to blame, although no one claimed responsibility... READ MORE›
SAUDI ATTACKS: SUICIDE BOMBERS TARGET THREE CITIES
The secretary general of the 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, which is headquartered in Saudi Arabia, said the attacks were an attempt to destabilise the kingdom... READ MORE›
SERIES OF BOMBINGS SWEEP SAUDI ARABIA
Blasts across Saudi Arabia on Monday brought death and fear to the Sunni nation... READ MORE›
MANY MUSLIMS TO BEGIN FASTING FOR MONTH OF RAMADAN ON MONDAY
Saudi Arabia's state TV announced the new moon of Ramadan was spotted Sunday evening... READ MORE›
MUSLIMS BEGIN FASTING FOR MONTH OF RAMADAN ON MONDAY
Saudi Arabia's state TV announced the new moon of Ramadan was spotted Sunday evening... READ MORE›
IRAN PILGRIMS TO MISS HAJJ AMID ROW WITH SAUDI ARABIA
Iran and Saudi Arabia fail to solve a row over the Hajj pilgrimage and Iranian citizens will not travel to Mecca this year, Tehran says... READ MORE›
CHINA, SAUDI ARABIA ELEVATE BILATERAL TIES
China will enhance cooperation with Saudi Arabia multilaterally to maintain regional peace and stability and promote common development... READ MORE›