Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry has confirmed the arrests of scores of suspects in an anti-terror sweep related to a terror plot involving attacks on senior officials and government oil, military and security installations, according to a statement posted on the state-run Saudi Press Agency Web site.
The car burst through the checkpoint and rounded the corner. Two SUVs carrying Saudi Special Forces were in hot pursuit as the vehicle pulled into a Riyadh neighborhood.
Forty suspected militants have been arrested in Saudi Arabia over the last several days, a Saudi security source said Wednesday.
Saudi security forces shot and killed five suspected militants Monday in a two-hour gun battle in an eastern suburb of the capital, Riyadh, the Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry told CNN.
Oil prices soared Friday, topping $62 a barrel, after attackers tried to blow up a Saudi oil refinery.
Stocks could have some trouble in early trading Friday after a report of an explosion at an Saudi Arabian oil facility and other global uncertainty lifted oil prices.
Since Saudi Arabia will increase its oil production to eight million barrels a day this month to make up for the lost flow from Iraq and Kuwait, the question is whether it can deliver if the bullet...
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