Tags - Saudi
Rasa - Syria says Saudi Arabia continues to impose crippling restrictions on Syrian nationals who seek to take part in this year’s Hajj pilgrimage, strongly criticizing the Arab kingdom for “politicizing” the annual holy Muslim event.
News ID: 431377 Publish Date : 2017/08/01
Rasa - Saudi forces have set fire to homes belonging to Shia residents in the besieged town of Awamiyah that has been the scene of a heavy-handed regime crackdown on the minority community.
News ID: 431372 Publish Date : 2017/08/01
Rasa - Qatar rejected renewed calls by four Arab countries to concede to a list of demands to end the Saudi -led blockade and restore diplomatic relations.
News ID: 431369 Publish Date : 2017/08/01
Whistle-Blower:
Rasa - Saudi whistle-blower Mujtahid, who is believed to be a member of or have a well-connected source in the royal family, underlined that Riyadh has resorted to Iraqi officials and figures, including Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, to ask for their mediation with Iran to help end the Yemen war.
News ID: 431368 Publish Date : 2017/08/01
Analyst:
Rasa - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who will reportedly replace his father, King Salman, in the near future has increased pressure on people in Qatif province to marginalize his opponents and reinvigorate his power, a prominent Saudi analyst said on Monday.
News ID: 431360 Publish Date : 2017/07/31
Rasa - A footage circulating on social media shows Saudi soldiers atop rooftops in Awamiyah firing a full array of weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades, at residential buildings in the besieged Shia-populated town.
News ID: 431350 Publish Date : 2017/07/31
Rasa - Ten people sentenced to jail for attacking the Saudi Arabian Embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran have had their appeals against their convictions rejected.
News ID: 431348 Publish Date : 2017/07/31
Rasa - Prominent Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has met with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and a few other Saudi officials during a rare trip to the kingdom.
News ID: 431346 Publish Date : 2017/07/31
Rasa - The Saudi government has described as a “declaration of war” what it says are calls by Qatar for the “internationalization” of the Muslim Hajj pilgrimage sites in Saudi Arabia, a demand that Doha says it has not made.
News ID: 431345 Publish Date : 2017/07/31
Rasa - The foreign ministers of the quartet of states, known as the siege countries led by Saudi Arabia, have said they have no concessions or compromises to make over their list of demands that requires Qatar to change its policies, including Doha’s alleged support of terrorism, as an unprecedented diplomatic rift further deepens in the Persian Gulf region.
News ID: 431341 Publish Date : 2017/07/30
Rasa - The Saudi -led bloc of countries - Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt - which have blockaded Qatar is ready for dialogue to ease the dispute if Doha agrees to certain demands.
News ID: 431339 Publish Date : 2017/07/30
Rasa - Canada warned it was reviewing reports that Saudi Arabia is using Canadian-made armored vehicles in a crackdown on Shias in the Middle Eastern country.
News ID: 431336 Publish Date : 2017/07/30
Rasa - As a diplomatic crisis drags on in the Persian Gulf region, a Doha-appointed human rights commission says Saudi Arabia has been “politicizing” the annual hajj pilgrimage through imposing restrictions on Qatari pilgrims travelling to the kingdom.
News ID: 431322 Publish Date : 2017/07/30
Rasa - Saudi security forces have killed at least two young men in a besieged town in the kingdom’s Shia-populated Eastern Province, as the Riyadh regime continues its heavy-tactics crackdown there, targeting dissidents.
News ID: 431318 Publish Date : 2017/07/29
Report:
Rasa - A Saudi tycoon has reportedly invested millions of dollars to acquire up to 50 percent of voting rights in the British media organization, the Independent, causing grave concern among human rights and press freedom activists in the UK.
News ID: 431314 Publish Date : 2017/07/29
Rasa - Yemeni naval forces, backed by fighters from Popular Committees, have reportedly targeted an Emirati military vessel in a missile attack off the coast of the country’s southwestern province of Ta'izz.
News ID: 431309 Publish Date : 2017/07/29
Rasa - Bahrainis have rallied throughout the Persian Gulf island in remembrance of those killed during the regime’s years-long crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations.
News ID: 431306 Publish Date : 2017/07/29
Sources:
Rasa - Local sources in the al-Awamiyah town in Saudi Arabia’s Shia-populated Eastern Province say the locals have been told to either leave their homes or face death at the hands of security forces.
News ID: 431305 Publish Date : 2017/07/29
Rasa - Yemeni army troops, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, have managed to seize several strategic Saudi military bases and outposts in the Arab kingdom’s southwestern Jizan region, inflicting casualties on Saudi forces.
News ID: 431301 Publish Date : 2017/07/29
Rasa - Secretary of Iran's Expediency Council (EC) Mohsen Rezayee lambasted the world for its inaction on Riyadh's savage crimes against the innocent Yemeni people and keeping mum in this regard
News ID: 431289 Publish Date : 2017/07/28