2014 in Saudi Arabia

The following lists events in 2014 in Saudi Arabia.

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Events

January
  • January 20 - Two car bombs hit a rebel-held post on the Syrian border with Turkey, killing at least 16 people amidst continuing fighting between Turkey-supported rebels and Saudi-supported rebels.

February
  • February 8 - A hotel fire in Medina, kills fifteen Egyptian pilgrims with 130 also injured.

March
  • March 7 - The Saudi Arabian government designates the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda among others as terrorist groups and warns that people joining them could face 30 years in prison.
  • March 27 - Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is confirmed as second-in-line to the Saudi Arabian throne.

April
  • April 21 - Five people are sentenced to death and 37 others given prison sentences for their roles in the 2003 bombings in Riyadh.
  • April 22 - The Health Minister of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabiah, is dismissed as the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus rages in the nation, killing 81 people to date.
  • April 27 - Saudi Arabia reports eight more deaths and 16 more cases in the latest outbreak of MERS.

May
  • May 3 - The first U.S. case of MERS is reported in Munster, Indiana, of someone who travelled to Saudi Arabia.
  • May 19 - Saudi Arabia closes its embassy in Tripoli over security concerns in Libya.

June
  • June 3 - Saudi Arabia announces 113 previously unreported cases of MERS, revises the death toll to 282, and fires its minister of health.

July
  • July 3 - Saudi Arabia deploys 30,000 soldiers to its border with Iraq after Iraqi government forces withdrew from the area.

August
  • August 6 - Saudi Arabia grants Lebanon US$1 billion to help the country in its conflict with self-declared jihadist fighters on the border with Syria.
  • August 6 - The World Health Organisation reports that 932 have died from the latest outbreak of the Ebola virus with a man reportedly dying of the disease in Jeddah after a business trip to Sierra Leone.

September
  • September 2 - Saudi Arabian authorities announce they have arrested 88 people on suspicions of being part of an al-Qaeda cell and plotting attacks inside and outside the kingdom.[1]

October
  • October 15 - Popular Saudi Shia Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr sentenced to death by Saudi court that tries terrorists and human rights activists.

December

References
  1. "Saudi Arabia 'foils al-Qaeda attack plot'". 2 September 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  2. "Saudi arrests 135 people on terrorism charges". 7 December 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
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