Saudi elite forces are in the process of razing the historic quarter of a largely Shia town in the country's eastern province after months of clashes with gunmen in the area. Saudi elite forces are in ...

Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed 47 people convicted of "terrorism", including a prominent Shia cleric behind anti-government protests, the interior ministry said. The cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, was a ...

Shia Muslim Iraqis, including supporters of the Shiite group Asaib Ahl al-Haq (The League of the Righteous), hold banners bearing portraits of prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr during a ...

Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr spoke out on behalf of Saudi Shia demonstrating against government discrimination in 2011 and 2012. Protesters promise more... Saudi Cleric's Death Sentence Focuses Shia Anger On ...

Northern Nigeria has become the latest battleground in the proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, after violent clashes between supporters of rival groups from the two main branches of Islam.

"We were too scared to leave our homes, and most of the shops were shut down or burned," a resident of Awamiya, in Saudi Arabia's Eastern province, told me this month. "Anything that moved became a ...

For the first time, the self-proclaimed Islamic State is claiming responsibility for an attack in Saudi Arabia. At least 21 Shiite Muslims were killed today in a bombing on a mosque. It heightens ...