Jizan, Saudi Arabia News

Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia has received two bids from four Saudi-owned firms to build, own and operate a new export-oriented refinery in Jizan, industry sources said.

The Saudi deputy defence minister, Prince Khaled bin Sultan, speaks to a Saudi soldier during a visit to troops in the southwestern province of Jizan near the border with Yemen yesterday.

Amid an ongoing insurgency in Saada Province in northern Yemen, rebel forces are accusing neighboring Saudi Arabia of killing 54 civilians in airstrikes.

Saudi soldiers on patrol in the southern province of Jizan, near the border with Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Nov.

Reported comments by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki comes as Saudi Arabia continues cross-border offensive against Yemeni rebels VOA News Photo: AFP Saudi Press Agency file photo shows Saudi soldiers during visit by King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz to Jizan Province, where Saudi forces have been battling the Yemeni militants along the frontier for ...

RIYADH: Saudi forces have arrested 821 Yemenis and Africans attempting to sneak across the southern border from Yemen over the past two weeks, Ash-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reported on Friday.

Jamila Sharahili and her five children fled their home after Saudi officials came to her village near the Yemeni border, urging her to escape from a war she knows little about.

JIZAN, Saudi Arabia: Saudi armed forces have recaptured the "strategic region" of Al-Dood mountain from Yemeni rebels on the Saudi-Yemen border, the deputy defense minister said on Sunday.

Saudi soldiers on patrol in the southern province of Jizan, near the border with Yemen, Saudi Arabia, 8 November 2009.

SANAA: At least eight Zaydi rebels and four pro-government tribesmen have been killed in fighting in north Yemen, a tribal source said on Wednesday, as Saudi forces continued to attack insurgents on the border between the two countries.

MUHAMMAD REDWAN and his family were being hammered from all sides. In early August, rebels from Yemen's Houthi clan took over his village in the rugged mountains of the Malahid district, near the border with Saudi Arabia.

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Saudi Prince Fahd bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, governor of Tabuk region, offers his condolences to the family of Saudi General Said bin Mohamed al-Amri who was killed at the border with Yemen, in the northern city of Tabuk yesterday Yemeni and Saudi forces pounded Shia rebel positions along the border between the two countries yesterday, witnesses and ...

Thousands of Saudis are huddling in tent cities after abandoning their homes when fighting between Yemeni troops and Shiite rebels spilled across the border.

Saudi soldiers patrol Jizan province near Yemeni border with Yemen after clearing mountain straddling Yemen border of Shiite rebels on Nov.

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat- As a result of the violation of the sovereignty of Saudi territory last week by Huthist elements, the Kingdom is in the process of setting up a security fence along its boarders with Yemen.

Jizan, Asharq Al-Awsat- Saudi security forces have regained control of a large mountainous region from the Huthi rebels who had infiltrated Saudi Arabia last week, routing them from the area.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has warned against foreign intervention in the conflict between the Yemeni government and rebels.

Rebels in northern Yemen have said they shot down a Yemeni fighter jet that was attacking their strongholds on Sunday.

Saudi soldiers in the southern province of Jizan, near the border with Yemen, Saudi Arabia, 07 Nov 2009 Saudi Arabia's Defense Ministry says its forces have regained control of a mountain on the border with Yemen.