Saudi authorities have taken an “unprecedented” step to tackle Islamic extremism by setting up a council of scholars to vet religious teachings around the world. According to the guardian a royal order issued this week [ More … ]
A bill that allows the families of victims of the 9/11 attacks to sue the country of Saudi Arabia for any role it may have played in the terrorist plot went into law Wednesday, declared [ More … ]
President Barack Obama said on Friday he was nixing a bill that was passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives, though Congress is expected to override the veto for the first time [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia has arrested 17 people linked to Islamic State, saying they were in advanced stages of planning four attacks across the kingdom, reported The Wall Street Journal. The 17 detainees include 13 Saudis, an [ More … ]
According to a new transcript of the interrogation of prisoner Ghassan Abdallah al-Sharbi at Guantanamo Bay, the prisoner was recruited to a pre-9/11 terror plot within the United States by what he believed to be [ More … ]
The House approved on Friday a bill to allow families of those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to sue Saudi Arabia for any role in the terrorist plot, setting up a rare bipartisan [ More … ]
According to Der Spiegel, both the terrorist from the Wurzburg train axe attack, and the Ansbach suicide bomber who blew up an explosive-filled backpack, had multiple chat contacts with persons in Saudi Arabia. As a [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir replied to the consul general of Iran during a lecture at Egmont Research Center of the Foreign Ministry of Belgium in Brussels, after the consul alleged the Kingdom supported [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have piled on outrage after Hillary Clinton condemned the weekend slaughter in Orlando and directly linked the oil-rich monarchies to the funding of terrorism. In separate letters to Fairfax Media, the [ More … ]
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