Saudi Man Sentenced To Be Paralyzed In Eye For An Eye Justice

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to be medically paralyzed unless he can raise 1 million Saudi Riyal (almost $267,000) to pay ...

Saudi Arabia's Top Cleric Criticizes Twitter Users

Saudi Arabia's top religious cleric has criticized the social media website Twitter, calling it "a council for jokesters" a...

WICKED! Celebrity Saudi Preacher Who Raped And Tortured His Five-Year-Old Daughter To Death

Lama suffered multiple injuries including a crushed skull, broken ribs and back, bruising and burns. She had been raped repeatedly and d...

Saudi Arabia's Beheading Of A Nanny Followed Strict Procedures

Rizana Nafeek, a young nanny from Sri Lanka, was beheaded by sword this week in Saudi Arabia, punishment for allegedly killing a baby in 20...

Saudi King Names Women For Shura Council

Saudi King Abdullah appointed 30 women to the previously all-male consultative Shura Council in decrees published on Friday, marking a hi...

Nigerian Man's Hand Amputated In Saudi Over Theft

Saudi authorities on Wednesday chopped off the hand of a Nigerian muslim convicted of theft, in compliance with the Islamic sharia law st...

Google defends hosting of Islam film

GOOGLE'S executive chairman Eric Schmidt defended on Thursday YouTube's hosting of an anti-Islam film that sparked violent globa...

Nigeria's FG gives S’Arabia 24-hour ultimatum

Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo yesterday requested the Saudi authority to expedite action and resolve the issues surrounding the d...

Ailing First Lady To Accompany President Jonathan To UN General Assembly

With an eye on public relations stunt, President Goodluck Jonathan plans to reunite with his ailing wife, Patience next weekend, and the...

Women-only city planned for Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is planning to build a new city exclusively for women as it bids to combine strict Sharia law and career minded females, pu...

Assad seen on TV as troops battle in Aleppo

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appeared on television on Tuesday for the first time in more than two weeks, meeting a top envoy from cl...

Saudis will not withdraw from Olympics over hijab, says IOC

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has dismissed rumors Saudi Arabia will withdraw from the London Games over a hijab headscarf r...

Pakistani drug trafficker beheaded in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of drug trafficking, the second execution in as many days, the interior mini...

Iran agents planned to hit US and British targets in Kenya

Two Iranian agents arrested with explosives planned to attack US, British, Israeli or Saudi Arabian targets in Kenya, officials have cla...

Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, Saudi Crown Prince Who Led Crackdown on Al Qaeda, Dies

Crown Prince  Nayef bin Abdul Aziz , the hard-line interior minister who spearheaded Saudi Arabia’s crackdown of  Al Qaeda  in the ki...