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Late on 12 May, several vehicles manned by heavily armed assault teams arrived at three Riyadh compounds: The Dorrat Al Jadawel, a compound owned by the London-based MBI International and Partners subsidiary Jadawel International, the Al Hamra Oasis Village, and the Vinnell Corporation Compound, occupied by a Virginia-based defense contractor that was training the Saudi National Guard. [2]
Saud Hamoud 'Abid al-Qatini al-'Otaibi (1971 – April 3, 2005) was a senior member of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia.Al-Otaibi was responsible for bombings, including the attack on Al-Mohaya housing compound in Riyadh in 2003, Al-Otaibi was also involved in taking booby-trapped vehicles from Qasim to Riyadh, carrying out attacks on security officers and smuggling weapons into the Kingdom.
Eskan Village, officially named Eskan Village Compound, is a U.S. military compound located 20 kilometers south-east of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.The base is home to the United States Military Training Mission in Saudi Arabia (USMTM), Office of the Program Manager Saudi Arabian National Guard Modernization Program (OPM-SANG), the Office of the Program Manager - Facilities Security Force (OPM-FSF ...
20 October Police raid hideout in Riyadh and capture a large supply of weapons. 3 November Police surround militant hideout in Riyadh and kill two. 6 November Two militants surrounded by the police in Riyadh blow themselves up. 8 November A truck bomb explodes at an Arab housing compound in Riyadh, killing 17 and injuring 120.
Sedra under construction during November 2022. The contract for master plan for the community was awarded to Frankfurt-based Albert Speer + Partner GmbH in 2019. [11] In November 2020, Roshn, a subsidiary of Public Investment Fund, officially announced the commencement of the first phase of Sedra project [12] with 4,500 residential units and distributed contracts worth 1.6 billion Saudi riyals ...
Al-Olaya (Arabic: العليا, romanized: al-ʿulāyā), alternatively transliterated as al-Ulaya, is the central business district of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located mostly in the sub-municipality of its namesake, al-Ulaya, and partially in al-Malaz and al-Ma'dher.
Riyadh had a population of 7.0 million people in 2022, making it the most-populous city in Saudi Arabia, 3rd most populous in the Middle East, and the 38th most populous in Asia. [9] The first mention of the city by the name Riyadh was in 1590, by an Arab chronicler. [10]
The origin of the King Abdul Aziz Historical Centre is the former compound of the Murabba' Palace, which was built in 1936/37 by King Abdul Aziz about 1.5 km to the north of the old city and well outside the then still existing city walls. After 1953, the palace compound ceased to be used as the main royal residence and slowly fell into disuse.