Saudi Arabia
STRING OF SUICIDE BOMBINGS SHAKED SAUDI ARABIA
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** A suspected suicide bomber has died, on the early morning of the 4th of July 2016, the USA Independence Day, after detonating a device near the US consulate in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, the… Continue reading
THE SUNNI-SHIA CONFLICT – SAUDI ARABIA HALTS $ 3 bn TO LEBANON
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Saudi Arabia said Friday 02/19/2016 it has stopped a $3 billion program for military supplies to Lebanon in protest against Hizballah, the Shiite militant group fighting in support of Syria’s regime. A move which is a derivative of… Continue reading
THE SUNNI-SHIA WAR – NEXT STAGE
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The recent successes of the Shia coalition in Syria, backed by Russian air force and special operations elements and the recent battle of Ramadi in Iraq, in late 12/2015, where American air power and Army advisers helper the Iraqi… Continue reading
2 SUICIDE BOMBERS ATTACKED A MOSQUE IN EASTERN SAUDIA
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Four people were killed and 18 wounded, on Friday 01/29/2016, when a suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Saudi Arabia’s eastern governorate of al-Ahsa, a Saudi interior ministry spokesman said. The Eastern provinces of Saudi Arabia has a large… Continue reading
– GITMO INMATE, AL-SHAMRANI, SENT BACK TO SAUDIA
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A Guantanamo Bay inmate, Muhammed Abd Al Rahman Awn Al-Shamrani, 40. has been repatriated to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon announced Monday 01/11/2016, bringing the remote military prison’s remaining population down to 103.
Muhammed Awn Al-Shamrani had spent… Continue reading
– A NEW ESCALATION IN THE SUNNI-SHIA WAR – UPDATE
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– Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Mashhad was attacked by Iranian protesters, on Saturday 01/02/2016 noon, and the embassy in Tehran by Iranian “protesters” early Sunday 01/03/2016 early morning, following the execution of a Saudi Shiite… Continue reading
– THE NEW SAUDI VIRTUAL COALITION AGAINST ‘EXTREMISM’
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Saudi Arabia has said, on Monday 12/14/2015, 34 mainly Muslim nations have joined a new military alliance to fight terrorism. A joint operations centre is to be established in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, state media reported.
Countries from… Continue reading
– NEW MUSIC IN THE MIDDLE EAST
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Sunni Saudi Arabia is in a very delicate situation. They run a war against Saada Rebels in Yemen, known as Houthis (Operation ‘Decisive Storm’); they support the Sunni rebels in Syria : Jabhat al-Nusra and even, in some degree,… Continue reading
– SHAKER AAMER BACK IN U.K
– 5 KILLED IN SAUDI SUNNI-SHIA TENSION
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Five people have been killed, on Friday 10/16/2015, and nine wounded in an attack on a Shia gathering hall in in Saihat, Eastern Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry says.
The killings, in Saihat, come two days after the start… Continue reading