At a time when the U.S. is striving to enlist the support of Saudi Arabia and other Sunni-led moderate states to help counter Iranian influence in the Middle East, few foreign diplomats are as ...

FIFTY-six years ago American officials worried about unconventional uses of weapons of mass destruction. In a 1946 congressional hearing, J. Robert Oppenheimer acknowledged that a few people could ...

Then in April came the U.S. liberation of Iraq and the specter, terrifying for the House of Saud, of a Western-oriented, protodemocratic regime on Saudi Arabia’s long northern border. Such an Iraq ...

However, no family surpasses the sheer wealth and influence of the House of Saud, the ruling royal family of Saudi Arabia. With an estimated net worth exceeding $1.4 trillion, the House of Saud is not ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Saudi Arabia: A Modern History, by David Commins. Yale University Press, 384 pages. The first cars came to Riyadh in 1923, more than a ...

A definitive look at how the new challenges facing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia could change our world. This investigative series takes an in-depth look at one of the most important international ...

WASHINGTON – The State Department yesterday announced the inclusion of Saudi Arabia among a small group of nations singled out for their persecution of religious minorities and laws against free ...

WASHINGTON — The tensions festering in the Saudi royal family became clear in September, when Joseph Westphal, the U.S. ambassador to Riyadh, flew to Jeddah to meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, ...

NOV. 13, 1995, marked the end of a brief but important era in U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia. On that day, a terror bomb destroyed the Saudi Arabian National Guard ...

Analysts from the Gulf Arab states are generally upbeat about Saudi Arabia’s possible military dominance in the Gulf neighborhood and the Middle East region. A Saudi commentator has recently argued ...