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Joeri DeBeer was a 13-year-old Dutch boy living with his mother in Saudi Arabia when he met Phillip Parsons, 51, an American engineer and a pedophile. Parsons somehow convinced DeBeer’s mother that if she allowed Joeri to come to the...

AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) Abdulmanam Almushawah, the head of a Saudi government program called Assakeena, checks radical web sites in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida 's message to Muslims in...

Under pressure due to the preponderance of Saudi nationals in the al-Qaida attacks on the US in 2001, the Saudi security forces launched a major crackdown on Islamic militant groups. The frequency of militant attacks and reported raids and shootouts...

Similar scenes were being repeated with the potato and grape crops elsewhere in this 36,000-hectare corner of north-western Saudi Arabia being cultivated by the Tabuk Agricultural Development Company. Two months earlier, wheat and alfalfa, a livestock fodder, were being harvested....

At least 5 Saudi soldiers and 15 al-Houthi rebels were killed  in fierce confrontations between the rebels and Saudi forces in al-Khuba and Jabal al-Dukhan in Jaizan area south of the Kingdom, local sources said Thursday. The leader of the...

An announcement last week that verdicts will be published on the justice ministry’s website suggests that the new courts will be more than window-dressing, and that an absence of sorely needed consistency has been recognised. The Saudi capital markets authority...

A Court in Saudi Arabia has passed a sentence to behead a 22-year old man accused of child rape and crucify him. The last of his victims was a 3-year old who was left to die in the desert. The...

Maan al Sanea, chairman of Saad Group, alleges that his increasingly rancorous battle with fellow conglomerate Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi and Brothers (Ahab) has “no business” being heard in New York and should be fought in Saudi Arabia instead. The case...

The decision by the world’s biggest oil exporter could encourage other producers to abandon the benchmark and threatens the dominance of the world’s most heavily traded oil futures contract...The move reveals the growing discontent of Riyadh and its US refinery...