Saudi elite forces are in the process of razing the historic quarter of a largely Shia town in the country's eastern province after months of clashes with gunmen in the area. Saudi elite forces are in ...

Teen going 100 mph charged with killing pregnant girlfriend in deadly 12-vehicle crash A teenager, Jose Gutierrez, 19, is facing murder charges after allegedly causing a 12-vehicle crash while driving ...

Northern Nigeria has become the latest battleground in the proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, after violent clashes between supporters of rival groups from the two main branches of Islam.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Shiite Muslims are shouting anti-government slogans and demanding more freedoms in rare protests amid the minority’s worst confrontations in years with authorities in this ...

The US government commission on religious freedom on Friday urged action against ally Saudi Arabia after its mass execution of 37 people, most of them Shiite Muslims. The US Commission on ...

"We were too scared to leave our homes, and most of the shops were shut down or burned," a resident of Awamiya, in Saudi Arabia's Eastern province, told me this month. "Anything that moved became a ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A suicide bomber disguised as a woman blew himself up in the parking lot of a Shiite mosque during Friday prayers, killing four people in the second such attack in as many ...

Saudi Arabia's execution of leading Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday sparked a violent protest at the Saudi Embassy in Iran's capital, Tehran. Saudi Arabia then quickly severed ties with its ...

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi authorities detained a number of protesters Friday in the restive eastern Shiite region after they set tires ablaze during an overnight rally, the kingdom's official ...

Shia vs Sunni in Syria: Syria, a country which constitutes 74% Sunni population was being ruled by Bashar al-Assad, ...

The US government commission on religious freedom on Friday urged action against ally Saudi Arabia after its mass execution of 37 people, most of them Shiite Muslims. Saudi Arabia has come under fresh ...