2014 in Saudi Arabia
# 2014 in Saudi Arabia

The following lists events in 2014 in Saudi Arabia.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Abdullah
* Crown Prince: Salman

## 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 Organization 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.

### October

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

### December

* December 7 - The Saudi Interior Ministry arrests 135 on terrorism offences, including dozens suspected of links to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
