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Saudi Shiite mourners attend on November 7, 2014, the funeral of eight victims killed earlier this week by masked gunmen in the town of Al-Dalwa in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. Seven of the dead were killed when gunmen opened fire at a crowd, as Shiites commemorated Ashura, one of their holiest occasions. AFP PHOTO/STR

Opinion: ISIS and Al-Ahsa

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Nov 26, 2014 | Opinion

The long-awaited statement from the Saudi Interior Ministry on the attack on the village of Dalwah in the country’s Al-Ahsa province has finally been issued, shedding more light on this horrific crime. Before we go into this, let me just say that this dangerous...

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Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour Al-Turki gestures during a news conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on March 24, 2013. (Reuters)

ISIS ordered Ahsa attack: Saudi Interior Ministry

by Nasser Al-Haqbani | Nov 25, 2014 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry has announced that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) ordered the attack on a Shi’ite shrine in the small town of Dalwah in the country’s Al-Ahsa governorate earlier this month, which resulted in...

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Saudi Shiite mourners attend on November 7, 2014, the funeral of eight victims killed earlier this week by masked gunmen in the town of Al-Dalwa in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. Seven of the dead were killed when gunmen opened fire at a crowd, as Shiites commemorated Ashura, one of their holiest occasions. AFP PHOTO/STR

Opinion: The Crime that Changed the Face of Saudi Arabia

by Salman Al-dossary | Nov 10, 2014 | Opinion

Last week, the winds of change blew with a vengeance in Saudi Arabia, when armed terrorists opened fire on visitors to a Shi’ite Husseiniyah (meeting house) in the Al-Ahsa province, killing eight people, among them three children. True, this is not the first time...

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Saudi citizens walk by a sign saying, “Terrorism will not divide us.” (Asharq Al-Awsat/Issa Al-Dossaini)

Al-Ahsa attackers received funding from abroad: security source

by Nasser Al-Haqbani | Nov 9, 2014 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—The alleged perpetrators of last week’s attack on a Shi’ite meeting house in Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ahsa province received funds from abroad just days before they carried out the operation, an informed source within the Kingdom’s security apparatus...

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Image of Saudi security officers preparing for raid in Khalidiya taken from social media. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Saudi security arrest 15 in counterterror raids across Kingdom

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 5, 2014 | Middle East

Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi security forces responded quickly to the terrorist attack in the Al-Ahsa governorate in the Eastern Province on Tuesday, carrying out simultaneous raids across the Kingdom to arrest 15 terror suspects believed to have been...