Saudi arabia News
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What the latest $11 billion armed deal between the United States and the Persian Gulf sheikhdom of Qatar implies about United States policy in the Persian Gulf region.
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A suicide bombing inside a southern Saudi Arabian government building has left at least two confirmed dead, both of whom are believed to Al Qaeda linked militants.
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Understanding history is crucial for understanding the present. Especially whereby our understanding of the Iran situation is concerned. To understand how this situation came about it is crucial to understand the history which shaped it.
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Baghdad -
The International Business Times has described ISIS as the "world's best-resourced terror organization." Some funds come from donors but they also smuggle antiquities, and sell oil, and collect taxes in areas they control.
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The Iraqi cabinet has accused the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of funding the crimes that Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have committed in Iraq in the last few days.
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The United Arab Emirates is giving Egypt billions worth of aid which it says it should use to invest in its infrastructure in order to bring the economy out of the dire straits it has been in for years now.
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are prepared to give Cairo $20 billion in aid after their ally in Cairo, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is inaugurated as the new president of Egypt.
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Saudi Arabia has arrested nine university professors who are alleged to have connections with the Muslim Brotherhood, which is banned in that kingdom.
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Saudi Arabia is in the middle of an MERS outbreak that has infected over 519 people to date and claimed 157 lives. So what in the world is going on with the pictures and videos being posted on the web showing people kissing and hugging their camels?
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Jeddah -
Saudi rights activist and blogger Raif Badawi has been sentenced in a Saudi court to a decade in prison and 1,000 lashes for "insulting Islam".
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is working to educate and not alarm the public amid the first confirmed case of MERS in the United States.
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Riyad -
At a UN meeting last week, Saudi Arabia lectured Norway on the nation’s human rights record for failing to prevent criticism of Islam. In Saudi Arabia, a blogger was sentenced to 15 years in prison and four princesses starve for women’s rights.
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Riyad -
The daughter of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has called for an insurrection against the ruling regime. Princess Sahar and three of her sisters are currently confined in the king’s palace.
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The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS, has taken two more lives in Saudi Arabia. The country's health ministry also report 13 more known cases. MERS is related to the SARS, which appeared in about 37 countries a decade ago.
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Qatar has claimed that the dispute it and three of its fellow Gulf Cooperation Council member states were locked in is now over.
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Man has always assumed the water we drink, bathe in and use for our recreation is one of our unending natural resources. Where water has been available, cultures have flourished. But our global "footprint" is now affecting our critical watersheds.
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The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council has agreed upon the terms of a security pact which they hope will bring about an end with the dispute around the policies of GCC-member state Qatar.
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Foreign Ministers of Arab states on the west side of the Persian Gulf are meeting in order to discuss the tensions between three Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states with their fellow member Qatar.
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Syrian rebels seemed to have received at least 20 American TOW anti-tank missiles. The rebels who seem to have gotten their hands on such weaponry are said to be "moderates."
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A week has passed since the GGC Arab states of the Persian Gulf recalled their ambassadors from Qatar. That crisis may continue and even get worse.
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Iraq Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has directly accused Saudi Arabia and Qatar of attacking Iraq through proxies in Syria.
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Saudi Arabia has declared the Muslim Brotherhood to be a terrorist mere days after withdrawing its ambassador from Qatar for that gulf states support for the Brotherhood.
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The ambassadors of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have withdrawn their respective ambassadors against Qatar alleging that country of interfering in their internal affairs.
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Riyadh -
A female student in Saudi Arabia died of a heart attack after staff at her university allegedly refused to allow male paramedics to enter a women's-only campus to save her.
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London -
Saudi Arabia is now the world's fourth largest defense spender moving past the United Kingdom and France from seventh place. The statistics are from the latest report of the Institute for Strategic Studies in London (IIHS)
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New York -
The international war being waged inside of Syria has created a humanitarian crisis of staggering proportions. Estimates of numbers killed in the war since March 2011 range from 94,000 to 130,000.
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Jeddah -
A disturbing sight in Saudi Arabia recently brought the phrase "it's raining men" to a whole new level. Residents watched in horror as a mangled corpse descended from the sky.
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Omar al-Saeed, a Saudi political activist who called for a constitutional monarchy in the country and criticized its human rights record was sentenced to four years in prison and 300 lashes.
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Chuck Hagel reiterated U.S commitment to the security of the Arab Gulf allies of the United States recently. He should also emphasis strongly and unambiguously that this does not mean the U.S will tolerate those countries human rights abuses.
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On a visit to Bahrain US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has assured his country's Gulf Arab allies that the US will retain a strong military presence in the Persian Gulf following its interim agreement with Iran.
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A Blackberry's layout at close-range.
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Raha Moharrak of Saudi Arabia has made history by reaching Everest summit
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Desalination plant in RAK (Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates)
Photo taken: March 10, 2007.
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Circles of green irrigated vegetation, Saudi Arabia - April 1997
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The city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia
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Man Kissing Camel near Sphinx in Cairo.
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Kingdom 5KR is a 281 foot, 85.65 metre superyacht owned by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Chairman of Kingdom Holding Company
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Princess Sahar
One of the images being circulated under the #FreeThe4 banner to garner support for the Princesses.
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Ahmed Zayer
Saudi Arabia's Minister for Education Khalid al-Faisal
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Saudi Foreign Minister, His Royal Highness Prince Saud al Faisal bin Abdul Aziz at the London Conference on Somalia
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IKEA
A side-by-side comparison of the Saudi IKEA catalog showing women airbrushed from the catalog (right)
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
A scene from 'Wadjda'
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Adiput
Saudi Arabia: Modern city of Medina
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Bahrain Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Foreign Minister of Bahrain meets Saudi Arabia's aging monarch HM Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud (L)
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Princess Sahar
Two of the princesses with their pets earlier this month.
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Princess Sahar
A screen capture of an image retweeted by Princess Sahar.
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YouTube
New rehabitation and spa center opened in Riyadh for Al-Qaeda extremists.
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