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Saudi Arabia tells its citizens to immediately leave Lebanon due to the deteriorating security situation in the south of the country.
2023-10-18

A man opens fire near the United States consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing a security guard, before being shot dead during a shootout.
2023-06-28

Due to heightened tensions, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe cancels his scheduled trips to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, and convenes a National Security Council meeting, likely to discuss Iran's attack on U.S. forces based in Iraq.
2020-01-8

A court in Saudi Arabia sentences five people to death for the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Three other defendants are given prison sentences totalling a combined 24 years, and another three are acquitted.
2019-12-23

Voters in Saudi Arabia go to the polls for municipal elections, with women voting and standing for election for the first time. Seventeen women are elected to office.
2015-12-12

Saudi king Abdullah appoints Prince Sultan bin Salman Al Saud as deputy Defense Minister.
2013-08-6

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah announces a series of benefits for citizens as he returns to the country.
2011-02-23

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Saudi King Abdullah, and Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani visit Lebanon amid reports that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will indict members of Hezbollah
2010-07-30

Egypt allows a rare opening of the Rafah border to permit the first-known Palestinian conjoined twins, their family and a medical team to travel to the National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for separation surgery 10 days after their birth. Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is to pay for the surgery.
2010-04-6

Amnesty International asks Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to intervene in the case of a Lebanese man sentenced to death for "sorcery".
2010-03-19