Sources: Press TV
A blast hits a vehicle for the Sodicars Racing team as it leaves a hotel in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, two days prior to the Dakar Rally, critically injuring French driver Philippe Boutron, who is in a medically-induced coma. 2022-01-4
Saudi Arabia withdraws its troops from the Yemeni island of Socotra amid separatist unrest. 2020-05-7
UN special rapporteurs Agnès Callamard and David Kaye demand an investigation into claims made by "The Guardian" yesterday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman ordered the 2018 hacking of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's phone. The hack was allegedly done months before the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, who was employed at Bezos's newspaper "The Washington Post" and was a fierce critic of the Saudi government. The Saudi Foreign Ministry dismisses the allegations as "absurd". 2020-01-22
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announces that the United States will revoke visas of Saudi Arabia officials behind the killing of Khashoggi. 2018-10-23
The first U.S. case of MERS is reported in Munster, Indiana, in a person who travelled to Saudi Arabia. 2014-05-3
At least 13 people, including ten Indians, are killed in a bus accident in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. 2012-09-17
Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange: The leading commander of the military wing of Hamas, Ahmed Jabari, confirms in an interview with the Saudi Arabian newspaper "Al-Hayat" that the prisoners released in exchange for captured Israeli Gilad Shalit were collectively responsible for the deaths of 569 Israeli civilians. 2011-10-20
Tunisia asks Saudi Arabia to extradite former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali who was ousted in January. 2011-02-21
Saudi Arabia announces it is to commence a ban on the "messenger function" on BlackBerry handsets from Friday due to security concerns over the Research In Motion (RIM) technological device. 2010-08-3
A Nigerian court dismisses a call for an interim leader to be appointed while President Umaru Yar'Adua is in hospital in Saudi Arabia. 2010-01-29