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Prince Salman Addresses Top Saudi Military Officials
2012-06-27 Read More...
Saudi Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense, said it was a great honor for him to be entrusted with new responsibilities by King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy

New Saudi Interior Minister Takes Oath
2012-06-26 Read More...
Prince Ahmed Bin Abdul Aziz, new Saudi Minister of Interior, took the oath of office before King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, in Jeddah, Friday.

Saudi King Calls for Integrated Strategies to Fight Terrorism
2012-06-06 Read More...
King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, has called for formulating comprehensive and integrated strategies to fight

Saudi King Holds Talks with Lebanese President
2012-06-04 Read More...
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia held talks with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman in Jeddah

US To Resume Some Military Sales to Bahrain
2012-05-15 Read More...
The United States will resume some military sales to Bahrain, the State Department said on Friday. Bahrain is a key Gulf ally facing

Saudi Arabia, FOI Deny Building Any Weapons Plant
2012-04-17 Read More...
Saudi Arabia denied any deal with Sweden to build an arms

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan to Enhance Military Ties
2012-04-05 Read More...
Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, Minister of Defense, received Tuesday Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani who was on an official visit to the Kingdom of Saudi

Prince Turki Warns of Nuclear Arms Race in Mideast
2012-01-27 Read More...
Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Chairman of King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, is warning if the Middle East does not become a nuclear weapon-free zone, a nuclear arms race is inevitable and could possibly include Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

GCC Welcomes Saudi King's Unity Call
2011-12-22 Read More...
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Leaders endorsed the proposal of HRM King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to form a “single

Saudi & Bahraini Navies Hold Joint Exercises
2011-11-25 Read More...
Naval Forces of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain carried out a number of naval exercises within the framework of Joint Naval Exercises “Causeway 13” earlier this

3,500 Anti-Terror Personnel to be Deployed at Holy Saudi Sites
2011-11-04 Read More...
Saudi Arabia’s anti-terror Special Security Force will deploy 3,500 personnel and 450 armed vehicles, equipped with the latest technical and security technology, at the holy sites during this year’s Hajj (Pilgrimage), said Lt. General Muhammad Bin

GCC to Invest $104b in New Airports
2011-10-25 Read More...
More than $100 billion will be invested in aviation infrastructure in the GCC over the next few years to cope with passenger numbers that have grown annually by 10%, Kuwait Financial Centre (Markaz) said in its latest

Saudi Arabia & Pakistan in Joint Military Exercise
2011-10-10 Read More...
On behalf of Prince Khaled Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, Assistant Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General for Military Affairs, Prince Lieutenant General Khaled Bin Bandar Bin Abdul Aziz, Commander of the Saudi Royal Land

Prince Naif: Unrest in Arab World Distressing
2011-10-07 Read More...
The Kingdom is distressed over the current wave of unrest sweeping the Arab World, Prince Naif Bin Abdul Aziz, Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior,

Saleh: “See you soon in Sana'a!”
2011-08-18 Read More...
President Ali Abdullah Saleh vowed to return to Yemen soon from Saudi Arabia, where he has been recuperating from wounds he suffered in an attack on his palace

Saudi King Approves New Military Regulations
2011-07-25 Read More...
The Military Service Council of Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday a number of new decisions including the amendment of an article of the Cabinet Decision number 1200, issued in 1977, which will now pay SR500,000 to an officer, a private or a cadet

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