Tag Archives: Saudi Arabia

The fatwa was issued by Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti and General President for Scientific Researches and Fatwa, Abdul Aziz Al Ash-Sheikh. This comes at a time after which several demonstrations have been organized in Arab and non-Arabs countries alike in solidarity with the Gaza Strip. These demonstrations have taken place …

A senior Iranian commander has slammed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabian for handing down a death sentence to prominent Saudi Shia cleric Ayatollah Nimr al-Nimr, saying his execution will cost Riyadh dearly. Iran’s Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Hassan Firouzabadi said on Thursday that it was worrisome that …

The Iraqi army forces have killed one of the top commanders of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Takfiris in Tikrit as they continue to push back the terrorists. Saudi national Abu Khabib al-Jazaeeri, was killed on Thursday during the clashes in Baiji, north of Tikrit. The …

Iraqi forces have found equipment made by Arab countries of the Persian Gulf in Takfiri militants’ hideouts, Iraqi state TV says. The country’s security forces found the equipment in hideouts belonging to the al-Qaeda splinter Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Salah al-Din province, reports said on …

There are only two things the Saudis know: spreading sectarianism and using the oil wealth to buy loyalty of people, especially politicians in different Muslim countries. Emile Lahoud, the former Lebanese President made a candid revelation in an interview with Iran’s Press TV on May 3 saying that he was …

MONEY can buy many things: luxury, influence, security—and even time. How frustrating, then, to be vastly rich but never quite to get what you want. Such is the dilemma faced by the world’s richest family, the Al Sauds of Saudi Arabia. Their kingdom has sold the rest of the world …

Saudi Ambassador to Tehran Abdulrahman bin Gharman al-Shihri underlined Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s important role in strengthening unity and solidarity in the Muslim world. The Saudi ambassador made the remarks in a meeting with Secretary General of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought Ayatollah Mohsen Araki in …

A training barracks used by Roman gladiators and the 2,000-year-old mausoleum of the Emperor Augustus could be restored with money from the Saudi royal family, in the latest effort by Italy to secure funding for its crumbling cultural heritage. In a deal brokered by Ignazio Marino, the mayor of Rome, …

“He should be ashamed to meet a leader that has four grown women locked up” – the message from two Saudi princesses to President Obama as he meets with their father, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. In an exclusive on-camera interview with Channel 4 News, we talk to Princesses Sahar and …

Bulldozers are set to knock down a building in the holy city of Mecca, where Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) is believed to have been born. The demolition of the House of Mawlid is part of a multi-billion-dollar project to build a modern complex near the Masjid al-Haram (Grand …