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A US federal judge rules the Department of Defence cannot transfer an unidentified ISIS suspect with US-Saudi dual citizenship to an unnamed foreign country.
2018-04-19

Flash floods leave 16 people dead and 3 others missing in Saudi Arabia, with authorities urging citizens to avoid low-lying wadis. At least two others were killed in neighboring Oman in some of the heaviest rainfall in more than 25 years.
2013-05-1

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announces reforms giving women the right to vote and run in municipal elections.
2011-09-25

Indonesia bans its domestic servants from working in Saudi Arabia following the execution of a maid who was beheaded with a sword.
2011-06-22

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

The Obama administration notifies the United States Congress of plans for a $60billion-dollar weapons deal with Saudi Arabia in a move to threaten Iran.
2010-10-20

Saudi Arabia's ban of online functions on BlackBerry mobile phones is implemented.
2010-08-6

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