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Saudi King Warns of ISIS Terror in U.S.
Advisory arrives from kingdom after it financed the terror caliphate.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, the most powerful Muslim in the world, is warning IS, formerly ISIS, will soon attack the United States.
“If we ignore them, I am sure they will reach Europe in a month and America in another month,” he told Asharq al-Awsat daily and Saudi-owned pan-Arab Al-Arabiya television on Saturday.
“Terrorism...
ISIL threatens to attack Saudi Arabia
Takfiri ISIL militants have reportedly threatened to attack Saudi Arabia during Eid-Adha (the Feast of Sacrifice) that marks the culmination of the annual Hajj pilgrimage, a report says.
According to Syria Alaan news website, ISIL militants will begin an armed operation in Saudi Arabia after being supplied with arms and money by al-Qaeda agents.
The report said possible fall of the Saudi government...
Israeli warplanes strike Syrian Golan Heights killing 4
Israeli warplanes have targeted three administrative and military centers in the Syrian Golan Heights region, killings at least four people and injuring several others.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group based in the UK, says the attack which took place in southern Syria’s Quneitra Province left at least four people dead, including two women.
The attack came after Israel...
MERS-CoV is deadly but mostly preventable - WHO
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) seen under an electron microscope.
A UN health official says most of the confirmed cases of Respiratory Syndrome Corona-Virus (MERS-CoV) could have been prevented as infection rates for the virus are slowing.
Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Keiji Fukuda said on Thursday that there have been 824 confirmed cases...
ISIS Declares Caliphate on Ramadan, releases map including half of Europe
A revised map issued over the weekend by ISIS claims territory in Spain and Eastern parts of Europe. On Friday we reported on the ISIS five year expansion plan. It shows the Middle East, including Israel, the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia and India.
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the terror army supported by Saudi Arabia, the CIA and trained by the...
Saudi Arabia MERS death toll raises to 282
An Indian worker wears a mask next to camels as he works at his Saudi employer’s farm outside Riyadh on May 12, 2014.
Saudi Arabia’s Health Ministry has raised the death toll from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) to 282.
In a Tuesday statement, the figure, which earlier stood at 190, rose to 282 following “a comprehensive revision” going back to 2012.
The...
Saudi Arabia reports 13 new MERS-CoV Virus deaths
Saudi Arabia’s Health Ministry has recorded 13 more deaths from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the kingdom.
The ministry said on Wednesday that a total of 186 have died from the virus since it first appeared in the country in 2012.
It added that some 565 people had contracted the virus in Saudi Arabia.
MERS is a cousin of SARS. The former virus first emerged in the...
5 more Saudis die from MERS virus, death toll hits 157
Five more people die from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia, health officials say.
The Saudi Health Ministry announced on Wednesday that the new victims were three women, all over 60, who died in the capital Riyadh and two men, aged 56 and 57, who passed away in the port city of Jeddah.
The latest fatalities bring the kingdom’s death toll to 157 since...
Saudi King's Daughters kept Hostage for 13 years
Sahar and Jawaher Al Saud
The Saudi princesses who have been locked up by their father – the king of Saudi Arabia – for about 13 years for speaking out against the country’s oppression of women, told RT they are on survival mode in their own palace.
“We are running out of food and out of water. We are on survival mode. We are eating some expired food. All that we can find,” Sahar...
MERS virus reaches US, first case, CDC alarmed
Microscopic images of the Middle East Respiratory Virus (MERS)
The US’s first case of the MERS virus has been detected in Indiana, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Friday.
The patient is a healthcare worker who returned to the US from Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, on April 24. Along the way, the person passed through London and Chicago before taking a bus to Indiana....
Ancient Lost City Uncovered by Wind in Saudi Arabia says Researcher
“A strong wind has uncovered ancient structures that no one has ever noticed. It seems to be something very ancient.,” says researcher Matteo Ianneo.
“If you look carefully, you can see the ancient ruins next to it, even an old profile. This is a sensational discovery” that no one had noticed. In photographs from 2004, one can observe that “there was nothing in this place, it was definitely...
Saudi Arabia threatens to block Qatar borders
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal
Saudi Arabia has threatened to block Qatar by land and sea amid a simmering row between the two Arab states over Doha’s links with the Muslim Brotherhood and the role of al-Jazeera television station.
According to a report published by US-based newspaper Huffington Post, the threats were made during a private meeting between the foreign ministers of the...
Putin In “Fury” After Saudis Brand Obama Regime Terrorist Organization
A stunning Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) report circulating in the Kremlin today says the President Putin’s outright rejection of a US proposal to resolve the dispute over Ukraine that had been put forward by Secretary of State John Kerry was due to the Russian leaders “fury” over a secret report given to Moscow this past weekend by Saudi Arabia which effectively branded the Obama regime...
Russia worried by Saudi’s plan for Syria militants
A militant fires towards government forces during clashes in Sheikh Najar area of the Syrian city of Aleppo.
Russia has raised concerns about Saudi Arabia’s plans to provide the militants in Syria with advanced arms.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said it is worried about reports that Riyadh is seeking to arm the foreign-backed militants in Syria with man-portable...
1400 Saudi militants fight in Syria
Some 1,400 Saudi Arabian citizens have joined foreign-backed militant groups which are fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a report says.
Saudi Arabia’s newspaper Al Watan said in a recent report that most Saudi militants, who have poured into Syria after the outbreak of the crisis in 2011, are teenagers.
The report added that around 20 percent of the Saudi militants...