All Stories: Riyadh

RIYADH/DUBAI: Saudi Arabia on Sunday condemned a deadly attack in Denmark which bore similarities to Islamist shootings in Paris, while also deploring the killing of three Muslims in North Carolina.

WASHINGTON: Long-standing ties between the United States, the world's oldest democracy, and Saudi Arabia, an ultra-conservative absolute monarchy, have strained at times, but the unlikely allies remain bound by mutual interests in regional stability and oil.

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded one of its citizens for murder in its 12th execution this year, warning it would mete out the same fate to perpetrators of similar crimes.

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia said on Monday it beheaded a Myanmar female child-killer, bringing to seven the number of death sentences carried out this year in the Muslim kingdom.

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded a Pakistani for heroin smuggling, bringing to 10 the number of people from his country executed in the kingdom for drug trafficking since mid-October.

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and France are to finalise Tuesday a deal to provide Lebanon's army with $3 billion worth of French weapons, with Riyadh footing the bill, a Saudi daily and a French source said.

RIYADH: Authorities in Saudi Arabia say they have seized half a tonne of ivory being smuggled from Africa to east Asia.

RIYADH: The gunman who shot and killed an American and wounded another in Riyadh was a disgruntled former employee of defense contractor Vinnell Arabia and a US-Saudi citizen, a US diplomat said.

RIYADH: An unidentified gunman shot dead an American and wounded another in the Saudi capital on Tuesday when he opened fire on their vehicle, police said.