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IMF says Bahrain and Oman are also at risk of exhausting their financial assets by 2020

On September 30 Russia launched air strikes in Syria allowing Assad's battle-weary forces to go on the offensive

New labour laws introduced this week outlined that employers must specify a dress code for their female employees

Seven-decade-old alliance between Washington and Riyadh has been strained in recent years over Arab Spring uprisings

Women say the royal threatened to kill one of the women if she refused to 'party' with him

Court documents name the prince as Majed bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, one of the late monarch's 35 known children

Abdulkareem al-Khoder, one of 11 founding members of ACPRA, was sentenced to 10 years in prison

Saudi foreign minister accuses Iran of sending "Shia militias" to support Assad; calls Tehran "occupier of Arab...

Saudi Arabia is the first foreign country whose forces are being trained at NCTC

A military source in Aden says 300 Sudanese soldiers and officers arrived by sea

Mourners vowed to continue commemorations of Ashura even after a gunman killed five people at one of their gatherings

A gunman began firing at a Shia gathering in eastern Saudi Arabia, injuring nine others

Police arrive and a gun battle breaks out, which the resident said injured several people and left the attacker dead

Obama is the head of this world and he can interfere and rescue my son, Ali al Nimr's mother said

The area is home to the King Khaled air base, the largest air force base in southern Saudi Arabia

He beat her up with an air-conditioning hose, claiming that he wanted to 'educate' his daughter

Saudi Arabia has yet to provide an updated death toll after saying that 769 Muslim pilgrims had died in the tragedy

The cancer-surviving grandfather of seven has lived in Saudi Arabia for 25 years, working in the oil industry

As many as 1.25 million pilgrims are expected to arrive each month starting next year

King says Kingdom has deployed all capabilities and efforts to provide guests of God with comfort, security and safety

IMF and private analysts calculate oil-rich kingdom may run record budget deficit of $120 billion or more this year

Saudi Prince says Hajj is a matter of sovereignty and privilege

Hajj Minister says as many as 1.25 million pilgrims are expected to arrive each month starting next year

CM Punjab says Pakistan, Saudi Arabia have historical brotherly relations

India lodges protest with authorities in Riyadh over 'brutal' attack

Video went viral in Saudi Arabia with many viewers showing support for the wife

Ministry of Religious Affairs says 60 Pakistani pilgrims are still believed to be missing

Nimr was convicted of sedition, rioting, protesting and robbery in the Eastern Province district of Qatif

Commentator was arrested in Saudi Arabia in June for criticising the Kingdom's government

With many more pilgrims still listed as missing, Iranian officials say the real toll is between 2,000 and 4,000

Rouhani cut short a trip to attend repatriation ceremony but return of the first bodies was delayed

US Judge says Saudi Arabia has sovereign immunity from damage claims by families of people killed in 9/11 attacks

Alamzeb Khan recalls how the stampede at Mina looked like the 'day of judgment'

Prince writes letters calling for removal of King Salman in light of Makkah tragedies, Yemen war

Iran says it lost at least 169 pilgrims when two large groups of pilgrims converged on at a crossroads in Mina

A total of 169 Iranians are now known to have died in Thursday's stampede in Mina

Officials were identifying Indonesian victims by checking clothes and Hajj ID bracelets against their records

Saudi Arabia foreign minister said Iranians should know better than to play politics with a tragedy

'You are not responsible for what happened', top Saudi cleric tells Crown Prince who is also the interior minister

The kingdom's regional rival Iran expressed outrage at the deaths of 131 of its nationals

The Los Angeles Police Department's special consul division said the prince does not have diplomatic immunity

Iranian leaders have been deeply critical of the Saudi authorities over flawed crowd control measures

Head of Iran's Hajj organisation said for "unknown reasons" a path had been closed off near the scene

Foreign Office says so far there is no confirmation regarding number of Pakistanis killed in incident

Ali Mohammed al Nimr was sentenced to death despite being a minor at the time of the events

To organise the flow of pilgrims, security forces formed human chains along the roads of the vast Arafat plain

Al Nimr was arrested in 2012 at the age of 17 in the largely Shia province of Qatif

Politician says Germany does not need a cash donation to build 200 mosques but solidarity with refugees

Officials say a truck carrying fake copies was stopped near Al Jamoom village, a gateway to Makkah

The ministry says 100,000 police have been deployed to secure Hajj