Asia Times Online: By Pepe Escobar Was Prince Bandar “Bush”, 63, son of Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz (perennial Saudi Defense Minister,1963-2001), semi-perennial ambassador to Washington (1983-2005), and secretive jihad financier, killed by […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Monday 6 August 2012 The expansion project for the mataf (the circumambulation area around the Kaaba) will triple its capacity, according to a senior official of the […]
Washington Post: By David Ignatius, Monday, August 6, 7:43 AM By appointing Prince Bandar bin Sultan as its new intelligence chief, Saudi Arabia has installed what looks like a war cabinet at a time of rising […]
Violence erupts at anti-Islam protest in Sweden The Associated Press Published: Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 – 6:25 am Last Modified: Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 – 8:56 am STOCKHOLM — Swedish activists clashed with police amid a hail of bottles and fireworks in downtown Stockholm on Saturday as they tried to break […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 5 August 2012 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah yesterday sent an invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to attend the emergency Islamic summit […]
TAIF: MOHAMMAD MURAD ARABNEWS Sunday 5 August 2012 Due to the nice weather, even though it rains sometimes, people of Taif and nearby cities are flocking to open areas to […]
RAFJA/MADINAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 5 August 2012 A Saudi philanthropist has donated SR 17 million to save a Saudi man from execution. The unidentified donor contributed to a campaign to pay off the diya (blood money) to help save Sameh Al-Rowaily, who was sentenced to death for killing a Yemeni […]
RIYADH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 4 August 2012 Saudi students at Murray State University in Kentucky have received a license to establish an Islamic center where they can organize cultural and […]
JEDDAH: FOUZIA KHAN ARABNEWS Saturday 4 August 2012 Ramadan is the month of blessings and Muslims in this month try to receive as much blessings from Allah as they can. […]
25 Filipinos embrace Islam after lecture Ahmed Shaaban / 3 August 2012 DUBAI – As was the case in the last ten sessions of the Ramadan Forum, the Philippines night has proved to be the most eventful this year also with tens of people converting to Islam. Prominent Filipino […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Friday 3 August 2012 Government approval has been given for the expropriation of 2,000 properties in Makkah for the expansion project of the Grand Mosque’s northern courtyards. […]
Saman Mohammadi Infowars.com August 1, 2012 Following unofficial reports by Voltaire Network that Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia was assassinated on July 26, analysts pointed to the government of Syria […]
RIYADH: BADR AL-QAHTANI ARABNEWS Thursday 2 August 2012 Around 40 aid trucks have been prepared to drive from three cities in Saudi Arabia to Mufraq camp located in the north of Jordan, carrying around 20 tons of household items and food supplies under Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King […]
TAIF: MOHAMMAD MURAD ARABNEWS Thursday 2 August 2012 Umrah performers and visitors to the holy sites need some health tips to perform the Islamic rituals safely and stay healthy. Considering the enormous number of worshippers who come to the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah, it is no surprise that […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Thursday 2 August 2012 Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal yesterday launched “Khair Makkah” project of the Disabled Children’s Association (DCA) in the presence of DCA Chairman Prince […]
Note by the editor: Not a pretty picture, readers are encouraged to comment If Romney accomplished nothing else during his Israeli visit, he did manage to offend every single Palestinian Arab terrorist group, all of whom, the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PFLP and the DFLP, issued press releases […]
Credit: Asia Times By Pepe Escobar Was Prince Bandar “Bush”, 63, son of Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz (perennial Saudi Defense Minister,1963-2001), semi-perennial ambassador to Washington (1983-2005), and secretive jihad financier, killed by a Syrian intelligence death squad? Thunderous silence prevails on Syrian, Iranian and Arab media (most of it controlled […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star A noteworthy but troubling recent development across the Middle East and North Africa has been the quiet resurgence of Al-Qaeda affiliates and Salafist militants confronting established regimes. This has occurred alongside the emergence of nonviolent Salafist movements taking the opposite route of engaging […]
ARAB NEWS Wednesday 1 August 2012 BEIRUT: The humanitarian crisis in Syria has grown to such dimensions that at least $500 million in aid is required to meet the needs of the Syrian people, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said in an appeal to donors. “We are calling for […]