Topic: Riyadh

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) ...

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 resurgence. Instability in Yemen, the Arab ...

<div><p>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.</p><p>"Terrorism is criminal and spills the blood of innocents," said Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul ...

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, ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemeni Shi'ite rebels said on Tuesday they had withdrawn from Saudi soil as part of a truce offer extended to the oil giant after months of border fighting.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

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 Yemen ...

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 violence. "Eleven terrorists were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Washington warned in ...