Days after two deadly bombing attacks targeting Shia mosques in Saudi Arabia, locals in the Qatif region of the Eastern Province have established volunteer civil self-defence committees – and locals have told Middle East Eye that the initiative is being cautiously accepted by the official police force. At least 28[…]
Two young men were tragically killed in Saudi Arabia on Friday after they stopped a suicide bomber from entering a packed Shia mosque in the Eastern Province. Mohammed Hassan Ali Bin Isa and Abdel Jaleel al-Arbash, cousins in their early twenties, were manning a civilian checkpoint at the al-Anoud mosque[…]
Islamic State has said it carried out the deadly bombing at a Shia mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday, the second attack in the country claimed by the group in a week. The interior ministry said four people were killed when a car exploded outside al-Anoud mosque in Dammam[…]
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman pledged on Sunday that anyone linked to the killing of 21 minority Shiites will face justice for the “heinous crime.” Salman made the vow in a telegram to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who is also the interior minister. “Anyone taking part, planning, supporting, cooperating or sympathising[…]
A suicide bomber has set off an explosion during weekly prayers at a Shia mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia leaving at least 19 dead, the interior ministry spokesman said in a statement. “It has been established that an individual detonated a bomb he was wearing under his clothes during Friday[…]
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said the upcoming Camp David summit between Gulf leaders and US President Barack Obama will focus on Iran’s “aggressive” moves in the Middle East, SPA reported on Tuesday. “We see Iranian support for terrorist organizations and facilitating the work of terrorist organizations, so the[…]
Saudi Arabia announced on Monday that a strike force had arrived on the border with Yemen. It happened as Yemen’s Houthi militia and the Saudi-led coalition forces traded heavy artillery and rocket fire in border areas on Monday, residents said, on the eve of a five-day humanitarian truce. The Houthis[…]
Yemen’s Houthi fighters and Saudi Arabian forces have traded heavy artillery and rocket fire in border areas, residents say, a day before a proposed ceasefire. The Houthis said they fired Katyusha rockets and mortars on the Saudi cities of Jizan and Najran on Monday, after the Saudis hit Saada and[…]
Saudi Arabia said on Sunday that the purpose of launching Operation Decisive Storm was to prevent foreign forces from using Yemen as a base for regional conspiracies and transforming it into a stage for terrorism. “By launching Decisive Storm, Saudi Arabia’s only intention was to support the Yemeni people,” said[…]
Yemen’s mission to the United Nations has called for a ground intervention to push back a Houthi rebel offensive in the south of a country where conditions are deteriorating after weeks of fighting. “We urge the international community to quickly intervene by land forces to save Yemen, especially Aden and[…]
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