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Saudi Arabia condemned on Saturday the “terrorist” car bombing that killed a senior security official in Lebanon, and warned of chaos if the culprits were not caught. The kingdom, which is widely considered as the patron of the Sunni…

The Kuwaiti cabinet on Saturday amended a controversial electoral law and set December 1 as the date for snap polls, acting on orders from the emir. “The cabinet approved the amendment of article 2 of the electoral law to change the voting…

The Moroccan government has denied that an 8,000-year-old rock engraving depicting the Sun as a divinity has been destroyed in the south of the country in an attack residents had blamed on ultra-orthodox Salafi Muslims. Communications…

A Saudi father pardoned his son’s killer if he successfully memorized the Holy Quran, a local newspaper reported on Saturday. Rabi’a al-Dousary, father of the slain young man named Abdullah, promised to pardon the convicted felon,…

Ameri was sentenced to death for killing Dousary during a quarrel that erupted in their neighborhood. The Higher Committee of Correction in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom has persuaded the father to forgive and pardon Ameri. The…

BEIRUT: The families of nine Lebanese kidnapped by Syrian rebels blocked the doors to the Turkish Airlines office in Downtown Beirut Wednesday but agreed to postpone escalating their protest movement at the behest of Interior Minister…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the names of 43 people killed as a result of the regime's bombardment yesterday on the town of Helfaya, Reef Hama. The dead comprised of 40 men and 3 women. Activists report that there…