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Al-Arabiya
December 20, 2017
Al Arabiya sources confirmed that terrorist Salman Ali Salman al-Faraj was killed in Awamiya, eastern province of Saudi Arabia, after confrontations with the police forces. Al-Faraj is one of the most wanted men in the list of 23 terrorists that was announced in 2012. He committed many crimes in Qatif,ÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
December 11, 2017
Canadian media outlets later reported that Canadian-made armoured vehicles "may have been used" by Saudi forces in Awamiya after social media posts showed the alleged vehicles. John Babcock, a spokesperson for Global Affairs Canada, which is responsible for the country's foreign affairs, explainedÃÂ ...
Middle East Eye
November 17, 2017
In July, Saudi authorities sealed off the Shia town Awamiya. The state escalated its repression of Awamiya residents who were angered by ...
Al-Arabiya
November 6, 2017
Al-Bahari neighborhood is adjacent to the town of Awamiya, which has witnessed previous terrorist attacks of a number of Saudi security ...
International Business Times UK
October 24, 2017
Since May, the Saudi authorities had been enforcing evictions and violently razing buildings in Awamiya ostensibly for health and safety ...
The New Indian Express
October 14, 2017
Awamiya, a town of around 25,000 people, has seen bouts of unrest since 2011 when protesters emboldened by the Arab Spring uprisings ...
Open Democracy
September 27, 2017
In Awamiya, a Shia-majority town in Saudi Arabia's oil-rich Eastern Province, a three-year-old boy has been shot and killed amid demolition ...
Mintpress News (blog)
August 30, 2017
Situated in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, the small village of Awamiya has fallen prey to one of the most well-equipped military giants in the ...
The New Arab
August 17, 2017
Some 488 homes have been demolished in the historic area of al-Mosawara, in the town of Awamiya in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, Saudi authorities confirmed on Wednesday.
BBC News
August 15, 2017
The BBC's Sally Nabil has been given rare access to Awamiya in Saudi Arabia, a town in the east of the Sunni Muslim-ruled kingdom that has ...
Middle East Eye
August 14, 2017
This is the Saudi town of Awamiya, a Shia-majority city in the Eastern Province of the kingdom. Since 10 May, Awamiya has been engulfed in ...
Al-Arabiya
August 9, 2017
Security forces cleared out more than 90 percent of the terrorists in Awamiya city in a sustained operation in the area where terrorists and ...
Aljazeera.com
August 9, 2017
A security campaign against Shia Muslim fighters in eastern Saudi Arabia has reduced dozens of buildings in the town of Awamiya to ruins and ...
BBC News
August 2, 2017
The authorities have been trying since May to demolish the old quarter of Awamiya, saying Shia militants use its narrow streets as a hideout.
gulfnews.com
December 31, 1999
Awamiya: Posters of sumptuous villas and palm-fringed boulevards hang in the battle-scarred old quarter of Awamiya. The latest wave of ...
gulfnews.com
August 11, 2017
A Saudi Special Forces soldier patrols in Awamiya following a security campaign against gunmen in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia onÃÂ ...
RT
August 11, 2017
The claimed 'renovation' of a Shiite town in Saudi Arabia is an attempt by the Sunni government to drive the locals out, the Awamiya residentsÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
August 11, 2017
He said: “That who sympathizes with the terrorists of Awamiya is the same who has sympathy for the terrorists in Bahrain, is the same whoÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
August 10, 2017
Security forces cleared out more than 90 percent of the terrorists in Awamiya city in a sustained operation in the area where terrorists andÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
August 10, 2017
A security campaign against Shia Muslim gunmen in eastern Saudi Arabia has reduced dozens of buildings in the town of Awamiya to ruinsÃÂ ...
STRATFOR
August 2, 2017
Hundreds of people fled the town of Awamiya in Eastern Saudi Arabia following weeks of clashes between the security forces and armedÃÂ ...
BBC News
August 2, 2017
The authorities have been trying since May to demolish the old quarter of Awamiya, saying Shia militants use its narrow streets as a hideout.
AMN Al-Masdar News (registration)
July 29, 2017
BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:30 P.M.) – The Saudi regime forces continued their siege of the Al-Awamiya District in the Qatif Governorate, Saturday,ÃÂ ...
AMN Al-Masdar News (registration)
December 31, 1999
BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:40 A.M.) – The Saudi regime forces continued their inhuman siege of the Qatif Province's Awamiya District, Saturday,ÃÂ ...
India.com
February 20, 2017
Awamiya, on the Gulf Coast near Dammam, has been a centre of unrest among the minority Shiite community since protests began there in 2011 and developed into a call for equality.
Zee News
February 20, 2017
Awamiya, on the Gulf Coast near Dammam, has been a centre of unrest among the minority Shiite community since protests began there in 2011 and developed into a call for equality.
Middle East Online
December 9, 2016
AWAMIYA - The bearded face of executed Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr is on every lamp post along the road leading towards his hometown of Awamiya, in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province. In the Sunni-majority kingdom where banners of King Salman and otherÃÂ ...
Middle East Online
December 9, 2016
AWAMIYA - The bearded face of executed Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr is on every lamp post along the road leading towards his hometown of Awamiya, in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province. In the Sunni-majority kingdom where banners of King Salman and otherÃÂ ...
Press TV
November 3, 2016
Sheikh Nimr's oil-rich hometown of Awamiya has been the scene of numerous anti-government peaceful rallies by protesters objecting to widespread inequality and discrimination in the kingdom.
Middle East Eye
November 3, 2016
A court in Riyadh has sentenced a Saudi national to 15 years in prison for supporting executed Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr, local media reported on Thursday.
Bernama
August 17, 2016
Qatif is one of Saudi Arabia's troubled areas where minority Shiite youths clashed with police in the past. In 2014, Saudi Arabia announced the arrest of 135 suspected terrorists, 17 of whom for rioting, vandalism and attacking security forces in Al ...
Egypt Independent
July 12, 2016
Violence erupted between police forces and citizens in Luxor's Awamiya neighborhood on November 25 as locals accused the police of torturing Shabib to death while in custody.
Al-Arabiya
June 23, 2016
Four killed in clash east of Saudi Arabia. Two Saudis wanted for their involvement in unrest in the eastern town of Awamiya and two policemen were killed on ... U.S. embassy urges citizens to avoid Saudi Arabia Shiite town. The U.S. embassy in Riyadh ...
Middle East Online
June 23, 2016
Police came under fire on Wednesday night while searching the suspects' home in the Eastern Province town of Awamiya, a ministry statement said.
articolo21
June 13, 2016
Esperti e organizzazioni per i diritti umani sottolineano che il governo di Riyadh sfrutta l'accusa di terrorismo e rivolta, come nel caso di sei giovani attivisti di Awamiya, per "risolvere discussioni politiche" e problematiche con la minoranza ...
Shields Gazette
June 8, 2016
Photo taken by a citizen journalist as mourners gather for Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr in al-Awamiya, Saudi Arabia. Al-Nimr and 46 others were executed in Saudi Arabia in January in the largest mass execution carried out by the kingdom in three and a half decades.
ANTARA
June 2, 2016
Al Riyadh yang dikutip AFP mengatakan bahwa ke-14 orang itu termasuk di antara 24 orang yang "dituduh menewaskan personel keamanan dan merampok pejalan kaki di Awamiya," sebuah kota Syiah di Provinsi Timur. Salah satu terdakwa dibebaskanÃÂ ...
The Express Tribune
June 1, 2016
Al-Riyadh said the 14 were among 24 "accused of killing security personnel and robbing passers-by in Awamiya", a Shia town in the Eastern Province.
Kosmo!
June 1, 2016
Semua suspek itu merupakan sebahagian daripada kumpulan kecil pengganas yang didakwa menyerang dan membunuh beberapa anggota polis di kampung Al-Awamiya dalam wilayah Qatif. Al-Awamiya merupakan antara segelintir daerah di Arab SaudiÃÂ ...
Internazionale
June 1, 2016
Un tribunale saudita ha condannato a morte 14 persone originarie dell'est del paese, abitata dalla minoranza sciita. I condannati a morte fanno parte di un gruppo di 24 persone che sono state processate per "l'omicidio di agenti di sicurezza a Awamiya".
The Siasat Daily
June 1, 2016
The judge ordered the release of a defendant, and confirmed jail terms of three to 15 years for nine others who were part of a terror cell that had killed 24 security officers and robbed passers-by in Al-Awamiya. The court had considered more than 400 ...
Asharq Alawsat
June 1, 2016
He also fired at several citizens, including any strange person entering the Awamiya village, and attacked the house of another citizen.
Naharnet
June 1, 2016
Al-Riyadh said the 14 were among 24 "accused of killing security personnel and robbing passers-by in Awamiya," a Shiite town in the Eastern Province.
DunyaNews Pakistan
June 1, 2016
14 get death for Saudi Shiite town unrest: report. Last Updated On 02 June,2016 08:07 am. A Saudi court sentenced to death 14 people convicted of taking part in deadly unrest in Awamiya. RIYADH (AFP) - A Saudi court on Wednesday sentenced to death 14ÃÂ ...
stirileprotv.ro
May 9, 2016
Intre timp, aproximativ 1.000 de protestatari siiti s-au strans in fata unei moschei din Awamiya, pentru a cere eliberarea a 50 de activisti condamnati la moarte, pe care oficialii intentioneaza sa-i execute intr-o singura zi. Printre acestia s-ar afla ...
Naharnet
April 29, 2016
Earlier this year unrest including gunfire, burning tires and explosions shook the eastern town of Awamiya after the execution of prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr on January 2. He was a driving force behind protests that began in 2011 among Shiites ...
gulfnews.com
April 29, 2016
Earlier this year, unrest including gunfire, burning tyres and explosions shook the eastern town of Awamiya after the execution of prominent Shiite cleric Nimr Al Nimr on January 2. He was a driving force behind protests that began in 2011 among ...
World Politics Review
April 19, 2016
In February 2011, as citizens began to mobilize throughout the Middle East and North Africa, protests in the restive Shiite village of Awamiyya and nearby Qatif called specifically for the Saudi government to release nine men imprisoned for their ...
Press TV
April 18, 2016
Mostly Shia residents of Eastern Province towns such as Qatif, Awamiya, and Hufuf have repeatedly held protests over discrimination by the government since 2011.
Human Rights Watch
April 16, 2016
Mostly Shia residents of Eastern Province towns such as Qatif, Awamiya, and Hufuf have repeatedly held protests over discrimination by the government since 2011.
