Reuters - Saudi Arabia imposed a temporary lockdown on Sunday on the eastern oil-producing province of Qatif, home to all 11 people in the kingdom who have tested positive for the coronavirus, and suspended all schools and universities nationwide. The interior ministry announced the lockdown in Qatif, which has a large Shiite Muslim population, ...

Iran Front Page - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday, January 9, and picked headlines from 13 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Several papers today covered the Turkey-US raw over Syria and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogans snubbing US National Security ...

Independent - Public prosecutors decision sets a dangerous precedent for women activists in the kingdom, human rights watchdog says Human rights activists are campaigning to save the life of the first woman in Saudi Arabia to be sentenced to death over her political activism. Israa al-Ghomgham, 29, was arrested along with her husband Moussa al-...

Press TV - A car bomb has exploded in the predominantly Shia city of Qatif in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, with initial reports of casualties. The blast took place on Thursday, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television reported, without giving any details on casualties. Sources affiliated to Saudi Shia Muslimssaid two people were killed in the ...

Press TV - Saudi regime forces have reportedly shot and killed a young man in the kingdoms oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province as deadly fighting escalates there. Local sources, requesting anonymity, said 22-year-old WahabFakri al-Mayuf died on Wednesday afternoon after Saudi troops opened fire at a group of protesters in the town of ...

Shia Muslims constitute the most important minority, and of course the most discriminated group of people, living within the national borders of Saudi Arabia. All groups affiliated with Saudi Shias, which according to the most conservative estimates make up 5-15 percent of the kingdoms population, mostly live in the Eastern Province and the cities ...

Saudi Arabia has arrested a senior cleric from the countrys minority Shia community as the kingdom continues to impose more restrictions on religious activities of people in its oil-rich east. Reports on Tuesday suggested that Saudi authorities had arrested Sheikh Mohammad Hassan al-Habib, a prominent cleric in the Safavi region in Qatif. Locals ...

Saudi authorities say they have arrested seven Saudi nationals and 12Pakistanis in connection with the recent bomb attacks in thecity of Medina andthe eastern region of Qatif. Saudi Arabias Interior Ministry, in a statement released late on Thursday, identified the Medina bomber, who carried out his attacknear Masjid al-Nabawi,the second holiest ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif condemned a string of terrorist bombings in the Saudi Arabian cities of Qatif, Medina and Jeddah, calling for stronger unity among Muslim nations as the only way to counter terrorism in the Middle East region. There are no more red lines left for terrorists to cross. Sunnis, Shiites ...

Two bomb blasts have hit near a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabias eastern city of Qatif while a third bomb has gone off close to a security headquarters at Prophet's Mosque in the western city of Medina. Witnesses said Monday that they saw body parts at the site of the explosion near Qatif's Faraj al-Omran mosque, which is frequented by people in the ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Masked men threw firebombs at an intelligence service compound in the city of Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia, activists said Monday, in an apparent reprisal for the execution of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric earlier this month. A Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman said "there was a failed terrorist attempt to burn the building with ...