Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

A community portal about Saudi Arabia with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula. It borders Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and... [more]

A community portal about Saudi Arabia with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula. It borders Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south, with the Persian Gulf to its northeast and the Red Sea to its west. It is called "the land of the two holy mosques", a reference to Mecca and Medina, Islam's two holiest places. In English, it is most commonly referred to as Saudi Arabia, often as just Saudi by many English-speaking expatriates in the kingdom, or, less commonly as KSA. Arabia is sometimes also used to refer to the nation, but the term can also refer to the entire Peninsula and its varied nations, and sometimes the entire Arab World, and is thus ambiguous.

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I’m an American citizen who is planning on studying pharmacy. I’m very interested in the Arabic culture and would like to one day move to Saudi Arabia for about two or three years to learn Arabic and perhaps visit the Hajj. Meanwhile, I’d like to practice Pharmacy there if given the opportunity. With a PharmD from a University in the United States, will I be able to practice Pharmacy in Saudi Arabia? Thanks. Related Entries Where Is There A Good Jewelry In Riyadh Saudi Arabia? Whats Good From Saudi Arabia? What Is A Good Salary In Saudi Arabia ? Im Travelling To Mecca In ... Read Full Story
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AL-JAZEERA Saudi Arabian forces have carried out an incursion into Yemeni territory using tanks, artillery and aircraft, the Houthi rebel group has said. The statement from the Yemen-based group said that the attacks on Monday were taking place in the border districts of Malahiz and Shada provinces. "The Saudis began an attack along many fronts on the Yemeni border," said the statement. "In the incursion, the Saudi army has been using all kind of weapons; land, air, tanks, and artillery." Witnesses from the northern border town of Razah also said that the Saudis had begun an offensive on Monday. "The Saudi army launched a ... Read Full Story
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Shiite rebels said on Sunday they shot down a Yemeni combat aircraft on the Saudi border nearly three months into a widening war between the insurgents and government forces. Jet fighters from Saudi Arabia, which entered the fray on Tuesday after the rebels seized two of its villages and killed a border guard, stepped up bombing raids against rebel positions. The kingdom said three of its soldiers have been killed and another four have gone missing since the fighting erupted on the rugged border, also claiming the lives of an unknown number of Yemenis. The rebels said however that besides capturing several Saudi soldiers, ... Read Full Story
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Alleged armed infiltrators from Yemen killed one Saudi soldier and injured another 11 in an attack near the country's southern border, Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday. The attack took place early on Tuesday in the mountainous border region of Jabal al-Dukhan, across from an area where Yemeni forces have been fighting Zaidi Shiite rebels for weeks, according to a statement on the official SPA news agency. "Armed men infiltrated at Jabal al-Dukhan... and opened fire on the Border Patrol with an assortment of weapons, killing one and injuring 11 others," SPA reported citing an unidentified government spokesman. A Saudi interior ministry official contacted by ... Read Full Story
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi authorities have discovered a large arms cache near Riyadh linked to 44 militants whose arrest was announced in August, state television said on Sunday. It did not say when the cache was discovered, but the report is a fresh sign of the security risk that haunts OPEC's biggest oil producer, where a top security official survived a suicide attack in August. Television footage showed security forces unearthing 281 assault rifles and 41,OOO rounds of ammunition hidden in a concrete block buried near the capital. The cache is linked to the 44 "deviant" militants suspected of planning attacks, the television said. ... Read Full Story
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