A would-be al-Qaeda suicide bomber was in fact a Saudi Arabian intelligence operative who turned over the bomb to his agency and the CIA.... Read more»
On International Women’s Day, 10 larger-than-life women are celebrated.... Read more»
The alleged Iranian plot to use Mexican cartel gunmen to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington is one of the strangest, most serious terrorism cases to surface in years, a mix of seemingly credible evidence and unlikely scenarios that departs dramatically from Iran’s past record of global terrorist activity.... Read more»
Accusations that Iranian citizens allegedly planned a terrorist plot in the U.S. and engaged people they believed were Mexican cartel operatives to help carry out the attack brought swift reactions from Texas lawmakers.... Read more»
FBI Director Robert Mueller said the plot was so surreal it “reads like the pages of a Hollywood script.” Iranian agents, he said, went to hire hit men from Mexico’s ruthless Zeta cartel to assassinate the Saudi ambassador on U.S. soil. Or did they really?... Read more»
Two men, including an Iran-based member of Iran’s Qods Force, have been charged in a plot to murder the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, U.S. officials announced Tuesday.... Read more»
Saudi Arabia’s king pardoned a woman sentenced to 10 lashes for breaking a ban on female drivers in the kingdom, Amira al-Taweel, the wife of the monarch’s nephew, wrote on Twitter Thursday.... Read more»2
Najalaa Harrir, one of the Saudi activists behind the “My Right, My Dignity” campaign trying to end discrimination against women, will be brought to trial for violating Saudi Arabia’s ban on female drivers,... Read more»
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were a prelude to internal struggles that have preoccupied Saudi Arabia ever since. The events forced the government to ultimately come to grips with the role that its rigid, anti-Western Wahhabi brand of Islam had played in creating al-Qaeda’s ideology of anarchic violence.... Read more»
A week-old campaign by Saudi women to overturn this country’s ban on female drivers is limping along, hampered by female apathy, conservative opposition, lukewarm government support and the priorities of summer vacation travel plans.... Read more»
Women in Saudi Arabia have started openly driving cars in defiance of a ban on female drivers in the kingdom and say the campaign for the right to drive will continue until the ban is lifted.... Read more»1
Women have been demanding the right to drive in recent weeks through a campaign on Facebook called “I will drive my car myself,” and via Twitter urging women to grab the car keys and drive themselves on an errand Friday. (with video)... Read more»
An attack on Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s compound Friday severely injured the defiant leader, leaving him with burns on 40 percent of his body and a collapsed lung. Anti-government protesters cheered Saleh’s departure to Saudi Arabia and many hoped he would not come back. (with video)... Read more»
President Ali Abdullah Saleh has left Yemen to seek medical treatment in Saudi Arabia after being injured in an attack on his palace, with news of his departure sparking celebrations among demonstrators in the cities of Sanaa and Taiz.... Read more»
Clashes between forces loyal to the Yemeni regime and opposition fighters from a key tribe continued in Sanaa on Thursday, as the country reportedly moved closer to outright civil war. (with video)... Read more»
A Saudi woman was arrested—again—for driving her car, an act banned in the ultraconservative kingdom. Activists claim the authorities cracked down on Manal al-Sherif out of fear that her online campaign to encourage women to drive might gather steam.... Read more»
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