US embassy in Saudi warns of 'terror kidnap plot'

2011-09-28T17:30:30Z

The US embassy in Riyadh warned American citizens on Wednesday of a plot by a "terrorist group" to kidnap Westerners in the Saudi capital.

In a statement on its website, the embassy advised "US citizens in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that we have received information that a terrorist group in Saudi Arabia may be p...

Clashes kill 12 in "liberated" southern Yemen city

2011-09-14T11:30:29Z

ADEN (Reuters) - Fighting between the Yemeni army and militants in and around the southern provincial capital of Zinjibar killed at least 12 people on Wednesday, just days after the government declared it had "liberated" the city from Islamist fighters.

An army official said seven militants and one soldier were killed in a suburb o...

Yemen PM returns to Sanaa: state TV

2011-08-23T18:30:28Z

Yemen's Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Mujawer returned to Sanaa on Tuesday from hospital in Riyadh, more than two months after he was hurt in a bomb attack on the president's compound, state television said.

Mujawer is the first top Yemeni official to return from medical treatment in <...

Yemen PM returns from Riyadh after attack on Saleh

2011-08-23T11:30:13Z

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's prime minister became the first senior politician injured in a June assassination attempt on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to return home from Saudi Arabia, a government official said on Tuesday.<...

Yemen PM to return from Riyadh after attack on Saleh

2011-08-23T05:00:14Z

ADEN/RIYADH (Reuters) - Yemen's prime minister plans to become the first senior politician injured in a June assassination attempt on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to return home from Saudi...

Yemen President Saleh to leave hospital soon: source

2011-08-06T13:00:14Z

RIYADH (Reuters) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will soon leave the Saudi hospital where he has been recuperating from wounds suffered in an attack on his palace, but will remain in Riyadh for the time being, a Yemeni government source said on Saturday.

Saleh wo...

Yemen's Saleh out of intensive care: state media

2011-06-09T06:30:18Z

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is out of intensive care in neighbouring Saudi Arabia where he is being treated for bomb blast wounds, state media said, prompting celebratory gunfire by his supporters that left dozens wounded.

Fireworks rang out over the Yemeni capital during Wednesday night as Saleh loyalists took to the streets of

US warns Qaeda thriving in Yemen turmoil

2011-06-08T15:30:26Z

The US warned Al-Qaeda is thriving from Yemen's turmoil as protesters rallied Wednesday against the return of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is undergoing treatment for bomb wounds in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi hopes bin Laden death will aid anti-terror fight

2011-05-02T05:30:06Z

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia, the country of Osama bin Laden's birth, hopes his killing will help the international fight against terrorism and stamp out the "misguided thought" behind it, the Saudi state news...

Saudi says 5,080 convicted of terrorism crimes

2011-04-02T08:30:14Z

RIYADH (Reuters) - A total of 5,080 people have been convicted of terrorism crimes in Saudi Arabia, where al Qaeda launched a campaign in 2003 to overthrow the Western-allied monarchy, state media reported on Saturday.

T...

Westerners in Saudi face attack threat: U.S. embassy

2010-08-07T05:30:06Z

RIYADH (Reuters) - The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia said Westerners face possible attack from unidentified extremists in the central province of al-Qassim, in the first warning of its kind this year.

"We have received credible information that an unidentified extremist (s) in RIYADH (Reuters) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh visits Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to try to persuade Riyadh to lead Gulf Arab donors by example in assisting his impoverished country as it battles an al Qaeda

Saudi grand mufti denounces terror

2010-04-16T07:02:35Z

&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Saudi Arabia's top religious authority on Friday denounced terror attacks as un-Islamic and condemned the killing of civilians, saying such attacks have nothing to do with the Muslim religion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Terrorism is criminal and spills the blood of innocents," said Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, the kingdom's senior most cleri...

Yemen clashes, ceasefire offer rejected

2010-04-16T07:14:56Z

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen rejected a ceasefire offer from Shi'ite rebels on Sunday and said there had been clashes with government forces, as neighboring Saudi Arabia accused the insurgents of mounting sniper attacks inside its territory.

The conflict with the northern rebels, who complain of social, religious and economic...

Yemen rebels say completed Saudi withdrawal

2010-04-16T07:20:24Z

DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemeni Shi'ite rebels said on Tuesday they had withdrawn from Saudi soil as part of a truce offer extended to the oil giant after months of border fighting.

The pullout could not be independently confirmed.

Rebel leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, whose fighters have been battling bot...

Saudis say Sept blast killed 3 wanted militants

2010-04-16T07:33:15Z

RIYADH (Reuters) - Three wanted Saudi militants on a government list of al Qaeda sympathizers were killed in September in a blast outside Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry said on Monday.

An interior ministry spokesman hinted that the blast occurred in

Yemeni forces clash with Shi'ite rebels, kill 11

2010-04-16T07:58:50Z

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni forces clashed with Shi'ite rebels, killing 11 in a country where Washington and Riyadh fear al Qaeda may be gaining a stronger foothold, and Yemen's president reiterated a call to rebels to end the violen...

Killed militants planned 'imminent' attack: Saudi

2010-04-16T09:46:57Z

Two men killed in a gunfight in southern Saudi Arabia were known Al-Qaeda militants who carried a store of explosives and four suicide vests for use in an "imminent" attack, the government said Sunday.

Saudi authorities have arrested six Yemenis in the wake of the shootout in Jizan province on Tuesday, and are searching for more people believed involved in the planned attack, acc...

Saudi Arabia arrests 44 Qaeda suspects

2010-04-16T10:44:48Z

Saudi Arabia arrested 44 people with alleged close links to the "original" Al-Qaeda leadership and seized large amounts of arms and explosives meant for attacks in the kingdom, the interior ministry said on Wednesday.

The 43 Saudis and one foreigner were "a core" of Qaeda operatives that was recruiting and indoctrinating others to carry out attacks, interior ministry spokesman

US loosens security rules for diplomats in Saudi

2010-04-16T11:36:29Z

The United States has eased tight security controls on its diplomats in Saudi Arabia, acknowledging an improvement in security four years after Riyadh squelched an Al-Qaeda campaign of attacks.

But restrictions remained tighter than in most other countries as President Barack Obama left Saudi Arabia for Cairo where he is to deliver a landmark address laying out his vision for a new US partnership with the Muslim world.

On Thursday afternoon Obama will deliver a personal appeal for reconciliation to the world'...

WikiLeaks

2010-11-28T20:32:03Z

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2007 file photo, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, second from right, as Crown Prince Sultan, right, looks on at Riyadh airport, shortly after Ahmad...

Saudi King Medical

2010-11-23T04:01:19Z

This photo released by the Saudi Press Agency, shows Saudi King Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz, left, bidding farewell to Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, center, as Prince Salman bin Abdel Aziz, the Saudi ...

Mideast US Saudi Arms

2010-10-21T03:15:07Z

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009 file photo, an F-15 warplane of the Saudi Air Force flies over the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh during a graduation ceremony at King Faisal Air Force University. The Obama administration is expected to not...

Mideast BlackBerry Crackdown

2010-10-22T11:35:20Z

In this image taken Thursday Aug. 5, 2010 a Saudi customer is served in a mobile shop at a market in the capital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi and Emirati authorities' battle with BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion shows how rapid cha...

Mideast BlackBerry Analysis