In this week's Marketplace Middle East, we take a look at Saudi Arabia's economic outlook. SABB, one of the Kingdom's biggest banks, projects that oil revenues will come in at $165 billion this year. What are the other key facts about the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula?
Arriving in the evening of December 20 in this hot, desert kingdom, laden with a train of boxes bearing some 280 kg of camera equipment, and some vague notions of a "schedule" to be adhered to, your ideals are dispelled as soon as you set foot in the arrivals lounge at King Abdul-Aziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Saudi security officials said Saturday they foiled a planned terrorist suicide attack and arrested 139 suspected Islamist militants who were in "sleeper cells" believed to be affiliated with al Qaeda.
A report that Osama bin Laden is dead has set off a flurry of denials from U.S., French and Pakistani officials, who say the newspaper report citing French intelligence cannot be independently confirmed.
Egypt's transport minister has said a blaze aboard an Egyptian ferry set off a sequence of events that led it to sink Friday in the Red Sea, causing what officials fear may be around 1,000 deaths.
Rescuers who plucked more than 340 people from the chilly Red Sea were continuing to search the water Saturday for hundreds of other people feared dead after an Egyptian ferry sank with about 1,400 people on board.
In this week's Marketplace Middle East, we take a look at Saudi Arabia's economic outlook. SABB, one of the Kingdom's biggest banks, projects that oil revenues will come in at $165 billion this year. What are the other key facts about the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula?
Arriving in the evening of December 20 in this hot, desert kingdom, laden with a train of boxes bearing some 280 kg of camera equipment, and some vague notions of a "schedule" to be adhered to, your ideals are dispelled as soon as you set foot in the arrivals lounge at King Abdul-Aziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Saudi security officials said Saturday they foiled a planned terrorist suicide attack and arrested 139 suspected Islamist militants who were in "sleeper cells" believed to be affiliated with al Qaeda.
A report that Osama bin Laden is dead has set off a flurry of denials from U.S., French and Pakistani officials, who say the newspaper report citing French intelligence cannot be independently confirmed.
Egypt's transport minister has said a blaze aboard an Egyptian ferry set off a sequence of events that led it to sink Friday in the Red Sea, causing what officials fear may be around 1,000 deaths.
Rescuers who plucked more than 340 people from the chilly Red Sea were continuing to search the water Saturday for hundreds of other people feared dead after an Egyptian ferry sank with about 1,400 people on board.
The world's most-wanted man is the subject of a new biography, and if you are at all interested in his al Qaeda organization and why it exists, you need to read it.
The U.S. State Department closed its embassy and consulates in Saudi Arabia for two days after receiving "specific and credible" threats against its facilities in the kingdom, State Department officials told CNN.
An unspecified threat has prompted U.S. officials to move American residents in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to another location, a statement from the U.S. Consulate said.
Two former Pakistani prime ministers and rivals, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, met in Saudi Arabia and agreed to work to end dictatorship in Pakistan, Pakistan Muslim League sources told CNN.
Two explosions rocked the Saudi Arabian capital Wednesday night, killing two militants and wounding several people, according to the Ministry of Information.
Since Osama bin Laden praised the terrorists who stormed the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last week during his audio message, does that mean he ordered the attack?
CIA officials said they have a "high degree of confidence" that the voice on the new, 70-minute-long, muffled audiotape is that of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Messages on several Islamist Web sites Tuesday claimed that a Saudi al Qaeda-linked group was responsible for a terrorist attack at the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, that killed at least five employees.
U.S. and Saudi authorities say militants responsible for a deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah had clearly studied how vehicles entered the compound.
A Saudi group linked to al Qaeda claimed responsibility early Tuesday for the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in which at least five employees and four attackers were killed.
Fighting between Saudi security forces and militants has left a police officer dead and nine others wounded, and led to the arrests of five militants, according to an Interior Ministry official.
Saudi Arabian state television reported Thursday that three militants thought to be on the country's most-wanted list were killed in a fierce gunfight in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah.
Four "liberal reformists" have been arrested in Riyadh and Jeddah for making statements that do "not serve the unity of the country," the kingdom's Interior Ministry has said.
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