The kingdom’s 2025 toll of 356 has been reported as a record for Saudi Arabia, beating 2024’s record of 338, by multiple outlets citing an Agence France-Presse tally, which counts numbers from official data released by the Saudi government.

At the start of the war, the Iran-backed rebel Houthi movement took control of most of northern Yemen, including the capital Sanaa, from the government. The conflict escalated in 2015, when a coalition of Arab states including Saudi Arabia and the UAE launched a military campaign to restore the government's rule.

The confrontation threatened to open a new front in Yemen’s decadelong war, with forces allied against the Iran-backed Houthis possibly turning their sights on each other in the Arab world’s poorest nation,

The Line is one of the planned futuristic venues that the kingdom hopes will bring millions of new residents to Saudi Arabia and revolutionize living and technology. Plans revealed in a video in 2022 outlined how the site in Tabuk province would stretch 110 miles across desert valleys and mountains and toward the Red Sea.

Saudi-backed troops on Saturday made advances in Yemen's resource-rich Hadramawt province, military officials said, as confrontations between forces backed by Riyadh and Abu Dhabi deepened a rift between the two Gulf allies.

Analysts attribute increase to kingdom’s ‘war on drugs’ as authorities kill 356 people by death penalty

Al Ahli vs Al Nassr will kick off at 12:30 p.m. ET/ 9:30 a.m. PT in the United States. The match will kick off at 8:30 p.m. local time in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, at the Alinma Bank Stadium at King Abdullah Sport City.

The Saudi-backed governor of Yemen's Hadramout province said on Friday he would launch a peaceful operation to take back military positions from the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, but that the actions were not a declaration of war.