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Within 77 years Saudi Arabia has raised it population’s literacy rate from ten percent to 82 percent. This is just one of many facts about Saudi Arabia and its evolution as a people and country.
For decades, it's been a stand-in for Saudi Arabia, Tibet, Egypt, the American West – and now, Iraq.
The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan bears ominous similarities to the disastrous Soviet war there 20 years ago, when a modern army was humbled by small guerrilla bands and the invaders struggled to prop up an unpopular government in Kabul.
Oil prices were slightly higher Monday after news that Somali pirates in waters off East Africa seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States.
Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa, an official said Monday.
MECCA, Saudi Arabia - One of the main rites at Islam's annual hajj centers on the bravery and determination of a woman. According to Muslim tradition, Hagar, the consort...
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — One of the main rites at Islam's annual hajj centers on the bravery and determination of a woman.
The EU's anti-piracy force says Somali pirates have seized a super tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa, an official said Monday, an attack that could pose a huge environmental or security threat to the region. The Greece-flagged Maran Centaurus was hijacked Sunday about 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) off the coast of Somalia, said Cmdr ...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in the...
MECCA, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- More than 2 million Muslims crossed new pedestrian bridges to perform one of the last ceremonies of the Hajj, an annual pilgrimage to Mecca, officials said.
Earlier this month, President Obama proposed ( NYT ) the controversial notion of reaching out to moderate elements of the Afghan Taliban. The idea, favored by some experts and encouraged by Saudi Arabia's facilitation , has been pursued for months by the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE UPI Editor at Large WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The infamous retired Pakistani spy chief general Hamid Gul is back on the air and in the headlines as propaganda chief for the Taliban insurgents. He now claims the Taliban is 88,000-strong and ready to take over when U.S. and NATO forces leave Afghanistan. With fewer than 100 al-Qaida terrorists still in Afghanistan ...
LONDON — A supertanker bound from Saudi Arabia to New Orleans with 28 crew members on board was hijacked off the coast of Somalia, the European Union Naval Force said Monday.
SAUDI ARABIA Swine flu kills five pilgrims at hajj MINA | Five people died from swine flu during the hajj, Saudi Arabia said Sunday, a relatively small number considering that the event is the largest annual gathering in the world and is seen as an ideal incubator for the virus. But some experts warned that the true extent of the virus will not be known until pilgrims return to their home ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pollution typically declines during a recession. Not this time.
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