An explosion on a gas pipeline has killed 28 workers in eastern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi national oil company Aramco said today.

Captured al-Qaida militants have told Saudi media that last year’s foiled suicide attack on the world's largest oil processing facility was part of a plot to strike oil installations in an attempt to draw US troops into Saudi Arabia so militants could fight them there.

A British navy official today claimed that coalition naval forces in the Gulf are on watch for possible terror threats to oil facilities in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

Iraqi border guards have captured a Saudi who admitted he was involved in last month’s suicide attack on the Abqaiq oil facility in eastern Saudi Arabia, an Iraqi military spokesman said yesterday.

An explosion occurred today at a major oil refinery in Baqiq, eastern Saudi Arabia, a Saudi oil official said.

An hotel was being searched today for clues to the killers of 22 people who died in a shooting rampage and hostage stand-off in eastern Saudi Arabia.

A deadly shooting spree by suspected al-Qaida gunmen in eastern Saudi Arabia killed 22 people, including an American, a Briton and an Italian, the Interior Ministry said today.

An American working for the Saudi Navy was shot and injured in eastern Saudi Arabia, a defence official said today.