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  • Saudi Convictions
    Saudi convicts 27 for plotting attack on US forces

    A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced 27 people to prison for planning a series of attacks against US forces in Qatar and Kuwait, with more than half of the defendants charged on Wednesday with also trying to join forces with a group in Syria to smuggle fighters to Iraq, official media reports said. The same court also sentenced on Tuesday two Saudi citizens to death and a third to 12 years in prison for taking part in violent protests in the eastern town of Al Awamiya.

  • Qatar Case
    Final Ruling Set for US Couple Convicted in Qatar

    An American couple convicted in Qatar of child endangerment will receive a final verdict on their appeal on November 30, a Qatari judge announced on Monday. Matthew and Grace Huang of Los Angeles were originally jailed on murder charges following the January 2013 death of their adopted daughter Gloria. They were released from prison last November, but banned from leaving during the trial. In March, the court sentenced them to three years in prison for child endangerment.

  • Yemen
    Why Houthi victories in Yemen make Saudi Arabia nervous

    It’s the House of Saud’s worse nightmare come true. The stunning success of the Zaydi Houthi rebellion in Yemen places a Shiite group with connections to Iran on the soft underbelly of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, erasing years of Saudi efforts to stabilize Yemen and keep it in the Saudi orbit.

  • Extremist Crackdown
    Saudi convicts 22 on militant charges, sentences one to death

    A Saudi court sentenced one person to death and 21 others to various jail sentences after they were convicted of a range of militant crimes, including setting up training camps and identifying oil locations to hit, state news agency SPA said on Wednesday

  • Extremism
    Saudi students in Turkey ‘lured to fight in conflict zones’

    Brokers and smugglers in Turkey continue to target Saudi youth who arrive in the country and convince them to fight in areas of conflict, according to the local Saudi ambassador.

  • American News
    The ISIS Conflict Has Saturated the American Mind

    In a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 94 percent of Americans said they were following the news of the horrendous and tragic beheadings of American journalists at the hands of ISIS. That number is astounding, seeing how public knowledge of the news can often be lacking.

  • Global Connectivity Index
    Saudi Arabia ranks 19th globally in creating a competitive ICT market

    The findings detail 25 developing and emerging countries, which account for 78 percent of global GDP and 68 percent of the world’s population. It reviews 10 industries including finance, manufacturing, education, transportation and logistics, providing a quantitative assessment of connectivity and its value from both national and industrial perspectives.

  • Saudi Military
    Saudi releases pictures of pilots who took part in strikes against ISIS

    Saudi Arabia has released photographs of pilots it said conducted airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Syria as part of a U.S.-led campaign against the militant group. In of the pictures, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA), some airmen were smiling, in green flight suits with arms around each other in front of one of their fighter jets.

  • Iraq Oil Exports
    Iraq exports more oil from southern terminals far from conflict

    Three months after an advance by Islamic State into northern Iraq sent oil prices soaring to $115 a barrel, the fighting has not reduced Iraq's exports from the south, the main outlet for its crude to world markets. Exports from Iraq's southern terminals have averaged 2.58 million barrels per day (bpd), according to shipping data for the first 23 days of September tracked by Reuters. Two industry sources who monitor the exports had similar estimates.

  • Office Space
    Soft opening scheduled for King Abdullah Financial District

    The article said: “A big problem is its size. The Saudi economy may be doing well on the back of high oil prices but not so well that its businesses could easily digest all the extra property.” It added that the new “financial district has thrice as many high-end office spaces as the rest of Riyadh. In other words, even if every company in the city’s plusher offices moved to the new district it would still be two-thirds empty.”