RIYADH — Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Naif, deputy prime minister and minister of interior, deserves to be named the "Vanquisher of Terrorism" and "Protector of Security".
His accomplishments to combat terrorism locally, regionally and globally have (...)
RIYADH — Recent confrontations with Daesh and Al-Qaeda terrorists have exposed their appalling moral and behavioral degradation and their breach of Shariah principles. The two terrorist groups have been using all means to carry out terror operations (...)
A man has justified his possession of material on the deviant Takfiri ideology and explosive operations by saying his work as a mosque imam necessitated him having the information in order to refute the ideology. The man is one of five men who (...)
Security forces have foiled 220 terrorist operations which were about to be carried out by Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups since 2003, a Ministry of Interior spokesman said Wednesday.
A large number of Al-Qaeda members therefore fled to nearby (...)
Losses caused by a fire in Bin Qassim Market here on Sunday were estimated at around SR2 million. The fire consumed the contents of 150 clothes and furniture outlets. Storeowners began the clean-up process on Monday and tried to salvage whatever was (...)
Police have arrested a gang of three youths for using the threat of firearms to rob expatriates.
Police in Al-Sulayil region received reports from municipal workers that three people in a car had blocked their way and threatened them with a (...)
As the Kingdom sees an increased motorization and urbanization, it will gradually start implementing the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) next year, Col. Abdulrahman Al-Miqbel, chief of Riyadh Traffic Department, said here on (...)
The Court of Cassation here has approved the 8-year and 2,000 lashes sentence given to a man for kidnapping and raping a juvenile, and filming him with a mobile phone.
The sentence also included a fine set according to the monetary value of the car (...)
The Court of Cassation in Riyadh has approved the sentence handed down by the General Court for the imprisonment of an Asian man for ten years and 1,500 lashes. The convicted man was found guilty of entering a house under construction and assaulting (...)
Police have rounded up 30,220 beggars since the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, authorities said.
In a survey of the beggars, the majority of them were found to be foreigners accounting for 26,211 beggars at 87 percent and 4,009 Saudis at (...)
A Customs official at King Abdul Aziz Airport in Jeddah stopped a Umrah passenger coming from an Asian country. The official body-searched the passenger and found his shoes to be hiding 619 grams of a brown substance that upon investigation turned (...)
Part of the roof of parking sheds at Imam Mohammad Bin Saud Islamic University collapsed here on Saturday causing extensive damage to three cars parked underneath. One of the cars belonged to Dr. Suleiman Bin Abdullah Abalkhail, Rector of the (...)
An Arab national's plan to rob a department store in the capital was foiled when officers from the Sowaidi police station arrested him hiding behind a large refrigerator in the store during prayer time. Two of the suspect's aides were also (...)
member gang led by an African national was arrested for burgling homes and shops in Riyadh, stealing cash, jewels, computers and cell phones.
Following the arrests, the gang members confessed to breaking into 29 homes located in various districts (...)
Authorities launched a security campaign in the capital's Al-Salli, Al-Faisaliyah, Al-Bathaa, Al-Malaz, Al-Olaya and Al-Oraijah districts and arrested two Bangladeshi individuals working at an Internet café for possessing fake documents including (...)
A young man killed his father on Tuesday following a disagreement in Al-Shifa district southern Riyadh. According to sources, the young man attacked his father with a sharp object and attempted to flee.
Investigations are under way to identify the (...)
Safa and Al-Marwa are to be separated in a surgery coming Saturday. No, they are not the hillocks in the Haram, but are conjoined twins from Morocco.
A team of physicians and surgeons specialized in separation surgeries, headed by Dr. Abdullah (...)
The influence of women in espousing deviant thought has remained weak, according to Dr. Mohammad Bin Yahia Al-Najimi, member of the Advisory Committee at the Ministry of Interior.
“They are few in number and it is obvious that their acts were (...)
The Ministry of Interior has planned new programs to rehabilitate prisoners across the Kingdom, the ministry said in a letter to the National Human Rights Society (NHRS).
The letter came in response to concerns voiced by human rights bodies in the (...)
A drive by shooting could have claimed the lives of three people in Riyadh downtown on Saturday.
Two men received the full force of the shotgun blast to their legs and thighs. Both were taken to hospital.
A verbal exchange of words and gestures (...)
A joint campaign launched by the Riyadh Police Department and the Anti-Commercial Fraud Department resulted in the confiscation of large quantities of medicine and baby milk.
The items, poorly stored at a warehouse, included 1,400 medicine packets (...)
Drug gangsters are adding new chemicals to Kiptagon tablets that destroy human brain cells, which could make it impossible to treat users of these tablets if they used them for long, the Anti-Narcotics Directorate said on Sunday.
The Directorate, (...)
Police have arrested three suspects, identified as Asians, in a kidnapping case in which a fellow Asian man was abducted and held hostage for a SR50,000 ransom in Riyadh.
Another fellow Asian reported the kidnap to the police saying that the three (...)
The second court session scheduled to hear the witnesses in the commission retrial over the death of Salman Al-Huraisi was cancelled as two of the three judges assigned to rule in the case were enjoying their vacation Tuesday. The court was (...)
The General Court in Riyadh is expected to hear today the testimony of 16 people in the case of a man who died during a raid by the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The witnesses include commission members and security (...)