Topic: Saudi Arabia
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.Admiral Michael Mullen, the top US uniformed commander, said the conflict in ...
RIYADH/DUBAI (Reuters) - Clerics in Saudi Arabia, a staunch U.S. ally and the country of Osama bin Laden's birth, dismissed Washington's assertions it observed Islamic rites in disposing of the al Qaeda leader's body in the Arabian Sea.Bin Laden, shot dead by ...
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, hopes that with his death, an "evil has ended," the Gulf Arab state's deputy interior minister said Tuesday."We hope that with the death of Osama bin Laden, ...
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 agency said on Monday."An official source expressed the ...
A total of 5,080 "terror" suspects are being tried or have already been sentenced in Saudi Arabia, which battled a wave of Al-Qaeda attacks in 2003-2006, the kingdom's prosecutor said Saturday.A court specialised in "terror crimes" has issued its verdicts in the ...
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.The reports did not give a time frame ...
Saudi Arabia is the key source of funding for radical Islamist groups including Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hamas, according to US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks on Sunday.Other Gulf states are also important to militant fundraising, the documents say, which brand ...
In secret documents, US grumbles about Gulf nations' commitment to terror funding fightSaudi Arabia has made "important progress" in aggressively trying to curtail the flow of funds to terrorist groups, but the oil rich kingdom and its Gulf Arab neighbors still remain ...
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia seized up to 2,000 illegal migrants a day at its remote border with Yemen during fighting there in January, the Saudi anti-terrorism chief said, according to U.S. diplomatic cables issued by WikiLeaks.The Gulf Arab kingdom is worried ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. officials have grown frustrated over the resistance of allies in the Middle East to help shut the financial pipeline of terrorists, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing secret diplomatic dispatches.Internal State Department cables, obtained by ...
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