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...
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...
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...
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...
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...