Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman General Mansour Turki said that security forces shot and wounded Bassem Ali al-Qudaihi during an exchange of fire when they tried to arrest him.
Yemen has faced multiple challenges, including regular attacks by al Qaeda and its affiliate, Ansar al-Sharia, as well as protests by southern separatists demanding secession from the country.
Islamic State fighters have exploited the chaos of Syria’s three-year-old civil war, which pits Assad and his allies against mainly Sunni Muslim rebels and Islamist militants.
One U.S. official told Reuters that such refineries could produce about $2 million a day in oil revenue.
A sources said said the Saudis had sent four F-16 fighter jets, the UAE contributed four warplanes, Bahrain two and Qatar a Mirage jet.
Obama said the strength of the coalition that took part in Tuesday’s air campaign shows the fight against such militants is not America’s alone.
The statement was the first comment from a GCC state since the United States launched air and missile strikes in Syria for the first time on Tuesday.
Rouhani said that he had no plans to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama while in New York this week.
A White House official, speaking on background, said Obama will address the latest strategy to counter Islamic State in Syria.
The United States has been building a coalition to combat Islamic State, which has seized large areas in Iraq and Syria.
Bahrain has been shaken by persistent unrest since 2011.
The man called on his countrymen to attack not only the ruling family and Westerners in Saudi Arabia, but also the Kingdom’s senior Muslim clergy.
Angela Merkel said Al Thani had assured her Qatar’s security was also at stake in the fight against the Islamic State and that she had “no reason not to believe what the emir said”.
Qatari ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is currently visiting Berlin.
Saudi Arabia has arrested thousands of suspected militants since al Qaeda supporters waged a wave of attacks on residential compounds for foreign workers and on Saudi government facilities.
Qatar’s ruler approved a law to regulate charity organisations involved in politics, as well as those that sent money abroad or received foreign financing.
The posting on the Minbar Jihadi Media website condemned “intervention in the affairs of other peoples” and said it would trigger an equal response, SITE said.
US officials declined to identify which Arab countries made the offers in joining the emerging coalition against the jihadists.
Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni said that he will consider breaking off relations with Qatar if it continued to interfere in Libya’s internal affairs.
Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born cleric based in Doha, said Washington was acting in its own interests.
Qatar and Turkey were the only regional countries to back the Brotherhood after Egypt’s army toppled Mohamed Mursi last year following mass protests against his rule.
A 600-strong force will be deployed to the UAE and be based at a U.S. headquarters, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said.
Sisi said any international coalition to combat terrorism “should be comprehensive and not exclusively target a specific organisation or eradicate a certain terrorist hotspot”.
Haines, a 44-year-old father of two from Perth, Scotland, was kidnapped last year while working for the French agency ACTED.
The special rapporteur said that though Oman’s law guarantees the right to peaceful assembly within its limits, it is quite restrictive.
The Arab states agreed in a communique to do more to stop the flow of funds and fighters to Islamic State and help rebuild communities “brutalised” by the group.
In a strong measure of support, Saudi Arabia has agreed to host training camps for moderate Syrian rebels.
U.S. officials declined to specify where on Saudi territory the rebels would be trained.
The meeting will address the issue of terrorism and the rise of extremist organisations in the region.
A lawsuit, first filed 10 years ago, accuses the Jordan-based bank of knowingly maintaining accounts for operatives of the militant Islamist group.