Sources: Arab News
A ballistic missile disintegrates over Saudi Arabia after being fired by the Houthis from Yemen against Israel. 2025-03-22
Two Saudi Aramco oil pumping stations are attacked in an apparent drone strike according to Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry. The stations are linked to a pipeline transporting oil from the eastern fields to the western coast port of Yanbu on the Red Sea. 2019-05-14
Saudi Arabia lifts a ban on imports of frozen guava from Egypt. 2018-04-3
Qatar's Interior Ministry releases a list of individuals and entities it says are linked to terrorism. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt, who had demanded the list amid tensions with Qatar, welcome its release but criticise the time taken to prepare it. 2018-03-22
Two Sunni mosques are bombed in central Iraq and a muezzin is killed amid fears of renewals of sectarian strife following Saudi Arabia's execution of Shi'ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia. 2016-01-4
South Korea announces an end to the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak that has killed 36 people since May 2015. The virus infected 186 people, with nearly 17,000 people confined to their homes and thousands of schools temporarily closing at the peak of the largest MERS outbreak outside Saudi Arabia, where it first appeared in 2012. 2015-12-23
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says 74-year old Karl Andree, who was facing 350 lashes in Saudi Arabia after being caught with homemade wine in his car, will be released within a week. 2015-10-29
Saudi Arabia shoots down a Scud missile fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen according to Saudi State media. 2015-06-6
The Indonesian government appeals after Saudi Arabia acquits a woman accused of torturing her Indonesian maid. 2011-04-4
Saudi Arabia imposes a ban on all protests, after demonstrations in the east of the country. 2011-03-5