Press TV - Britains ambassador to Riyadh has defended the Saudi regimes heavy-handed crackdown on the minority Shia Muslims in Eastern Province, drawing criticisms from human rights activists. Last year, Awamiyah, mainly populated by Shia Muslims, witnessed angry protests against the Riyadh regime over its controversial campaign to raze the ...

American Herald Tribune | Thomas C. Mountain: Since May, 2017 an ongoing insurgency has been raging in the Shiaheartland town of Awamiyah in eastern Saudi Arabia and its only thanksto theBBCbeing allowed to enter the area and film the destructionthat the world can see how the House of Sauds war against the Shiapopulation of Yemen has now expanded to ...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia's razing of the Shia city of Awamiyah has raised many questions marks, but oneobvious answer should be sought in the kingdom's failures in Yemen as well as in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere. The Wahhabi rulers in Riyadh have always looked at the oil-rich Eastern Province with suspicion because of its Shia-majority population,...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia has completed the demolition of al-Musawara neighborhood in the Shia town of Awamiyah, says a local official. According to Eastern Provinces secretariat on Tuesday, the demolition of the neighborhood has been fully completed in preparation for the commencement of removal work. Local reports claim that some 60 bulldozers ...

Press TV- Saudi Arabia has reportedly laid waste to at least 320 houses in an eastern Shia-majority town, which it has placed under siege for about three months. Local activists reported the figure on Monday, saying the structures in Awamiyah had mostly been populated by Shia Muslims. They said Saudi forces also flattened four mosques and ...

Press TV - The UN has reacted to media reports about a deadly and destructive Saudi military crackdown against an eastern Shia town, urging the regime in Riyadh to respect human rights. Speaking at a press conference in New York, Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, said the world body could not independently ...

Tasnim An American political analyst described the extremist Wahhabi ideology dominant in Saudi Arabia as a driving force behind the killings of Shias in the kingdom's besieged town of Awamiyah in the Qatif region. The Wahhabi ideology is very convenient for the Saudis because while the Saudi regime is primarily motivated by geopolitical concerns,...

Alwaght - New reports from the eastern Saudi town of Awamiyah have revealed shocking conditions faced by civilians in a brutal operation by Saudi regime forces against Shia Muslims in the region. According to interviews conducted by Britains Independent newspaper, Awamiyah a 400-year-old town in the eastern Qatif province home to around 30,000 ...

Press TV - Saudi military bulldozers have almost razed Awamiyah to the ground amid the deadly crackdown on the besieged Shia town, forcing hundreds of its residents to flee their homes. The Middle East Eye news portal cited activists as saying that authorities have resorted to compulsory evictions in and around the historic al-Mosara district ...

American Herald Tribune | Catherine Shakdam: With most eyes set on what mainstream media has architected as pressing issues : Iraqsalleged mistreatmentof Daesh militants, Qatar-would-bedeclaration of waragainst the kingdom over the hajj management, or US President Donald Trumps latest twitter rant, those news which reflect most the nature of our age ...

Alwaght- Saudi Arabia is a wealthy country thanks to huge oil exports. The West-backed Al Saud royal family leads the Arab kingdom and spends much to make sure that its rule will continue. Since King Salman's ascension to throne in 2015, the regime has showered the citizens with $33 billion in royal giveaway. The Saudi leaders are also boastful ...

Alwaght- Saudi forces have killed and injured several civilians in the besieged town of al-Awamiyah in the west-backed kingdoms Shiite-populated Eastern Province of Qatif. Local activists reported on Saturday that Saudi snipers shot dead two brothers, identified as Ali Mahdi al-Sobeiti and Hussain Abdullah al-Sobeiti, on the road to an Awamiyah ...

Press TV - Local sources in the al-Awamiyah town in Saudi Arabias Shia-populated Eastern Province say the locals have beentold to either leave their homes or face death at the hands of security forces. Since the early hours of Saturday, the Saudi forces have started taking the town under heavy shellfire, virtually barricading the public in their ...

Alwaght- The Shiite communities of Saudi Arabia are economically impoverished despite the fact that the Persian Gulf Arab kingdom is the worlds top oil exporter. When it comes to the cultural and social taking, the government treats the Shias like second-class citizens. For example, the courts do not consider valid their testimony, or a Shia cannot ...

Alwaght - The former Bahraini member of the parliament Jalal Firuz compares Saudi regime's crackdown on protests in Al-Awamiyah with the Israeli regime's oppression of the Palestinians. Al-Awamiyah, a small town in Saudi Arabias Eastern Province of al-Qatif, has recently witnessed violent clashes as Saudi regime force have responded with iron ...

Press TV- Saudi forces have carried outanother raid on al-Awamiyah Village in Saudi Arabias Shia-populated Eastern Province. A video, which surfaced online Thursday, shows the trail of destruction caused by the new Saudi raid. Armored vehicles are also seen firing at residential buildings and setting them ablaze. On Wednesday, Nimr Media ...