Saudi Arabia’s status as home to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina means grand mufti’s pronouncements closely watched.

Saudi Arabia has appointed a conservative cleric in his nineties as its top religious leader, sticking with tradition despite ...

Saudi Arabia has appointed Sheikh Saleh bin Fawzan Al-Fawzan as the new Grand Mufti. According to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA ...

Saudi Arabia has executed Abdullah al-Derazi, a man rights groups say was arrested as a minor for joining rare ...

Saudi Arabian authorities announced the execution of Abdullah al-Derazi, who was sentenced to death for joining ...

Saudi Arabia has executed a man who was a minor at the time of the crimes he had allegedly committed, in violation of ...

Saudi Arabia is a party to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which strictly prohibits the use of capital ...

The United States and several of its regional allies, including Sunni-led Saudi Arabia and Qatar, had backed some of the Syrian rebels. Assad was able to defeat the insurgency across most of Syria ...

In September, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a "Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement", pledging that any aggression against either nation would be treated as an attack on both.

Saudi Arabia has appointed Sheikh Saleh bin Fawzan al-Fawzan as the new grand mufti, the kingdom's top religious scholar ...