(Reuters)- Bahraini police Monday fired tear gas and birdshot at protesters demonstrating against the execution of a top Shiite cleric in neighboring Saudi Arabia, witnesses said. The standoff in the village of al-Daih, west of the capital Manama, was the latest of several protests...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- 26 Syrian armed opposition groups, in statement issued Monday, said it endorse and support the Saudi Arabia's step in cutting diplomatic ties with Iran amid rising sectarian tensions sparked by the Saudis' decision to execute a leading Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. The...
Attacks on diplomatic missions can never be a legal means of protest, Russia said on Monday, after Iranian demonstrators stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran in protest at Riyadh’s execution of a senior Shiite cleric. Russia’s foreign ministry expressed “serious concern” about the...