Saudi Arabia News

US President Barack Obama has lifted a moratorium on the transfer of Yemeni prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay as part of a renewed push to close the detention camp.

Before the Hajj pilgrimage brings millions of Muslims to Mecca in October 2013, the WHO is assessing MERS-CoV health risk in Saudi Arabia, where the deadly coronavirus disease has infected 33 people.

Bahraini women hold pictures of Bahraini senior Shiite cleric Sheikh Issa Qassem during a protest against the regime and to show solidarity with the cleric in the village of Abu Saiba, west of Manama, on May 17, 2013.

A 25-year-old Kenyan woman told News4's Jackie Bensen that she was kept as a domestic slave for three months by Saudi Arabian diplomats living in Northern Virginia.

Photo: Ghost town of Tawergha, Libya where 30,000 black Africans were "cleansed" by U.S. backed "rebels" after taking power with U.S. military aid and air strikes.

PyradiaA s engineers were heading to Saudi Arabia this week to complete the installation of 2 preheating furnaces representing PyradiaA s industrial ovens division as one of the equipment contractors for the Ma'aden's Ras Al Khair Aluminium Smelter Project.

Five Yemenis convicted of murder and robbery were executed in Saudi Arabia and their bodies displayed in public in the southwestern town of Jizan.

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THE parents of a Perth-born man jailed in Saudi Arabia on accusations of terrorist-related offences have met with Australian government officials in a bid to assist their son.

I Notice that a number of news items in a recent edition of the Star featured the term Islamist, or in the case of the Afghanistan item, straight Islam, to describe the extreme reactionary and/or retrograde groups and their attitudes.

WHO officials say scientists worldwide should be sharing information on the recent spread of coronavirus, not looking to profit from their work.

Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, announced its workforce in Saudi Arabia has grown by 33% bringing the total headcount to around 1,000. Nearly 30% of the new recruits are Saudi nationals.

A man, wearing a surgical mask as a precautionary measure against the novel coronavirus, pays for medicine at a hospital pharmacy in Khobar city in Dammam May 21, 2013.

Saudi Food & Hotel and Hospitality Expo 2013 is hailed as a major success as it concluded a four-day run at the Jeddah Center for Exhibitions and forums with over 18,000 visitors and millions of riyals worth of trade transactions for 400 exhibitors from 18 countries.

Saudi Arabian Oil Company is a Saudi Arabian government owned, integrated oil; natural gas; and chemicals company.

A Sudanese woman sorts sorghum grains after threshing on a field near Mukjar in Western Darfur, Sudan, 09 December 2007.

Members of the Saudi police force showcase their skills during their graduation ceremony at Public Security Training City in Mecca DUBAI: Iran denied on Wednesday any link to members of a spying ring detained by its Sunni Muslim regional rival Saudi Arabia, according to Iranian media.

Saudi Energy 2013 will be held at the Riyadh International Convention and Exhibition Centre and will run until May 29, 2013.

The general court in Riyadh passed the sentence after a Saudi national filed a complaint, the Saudi Gazette reported.

Air Arabia, the first and largest low-cost carrier in the Middle East and North Africa, inaugural flight touched down in Abha, Saudi Arabia, from its primary hub in Sharjah.