Tag: Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states denied the United States and Israel access to their airspace during Iran’s attack on Israel on Saturday. While Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates shared intelligence to help counter the attack,...

The Saudis and Emiratis shared intelligence with the United States and Israel to help counter Iran’s April 14 attack, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing U.S. and Israeli officials. Arab governments were initially cautious about sharing...

During U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, he discussed with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman the American-Saudi component of a larger plan that would see Riyadh recognize Israel. A...

By Oct. 6, 2023, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were on the verge of making peace and ending the Israel-Arab conflict. The deal on the table...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is back in the Middle East for yet another round of meetings. The point of it is, as with his previous trips since Hamas launched a war against Israel on...

Israeli Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi spoke at a conference in Saudi Arabia's capital on Wednesday, marking the first speech by an Israeli minister in the country. "As demonstrated by the Abraham Accords, when nations...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded sharply to an anti-Israel tweet by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday, saying, "While Khamenei’s terrorist regime exports ruin and destruction, Israel is advancing progress and...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel and Saudi Arabia later this month amid a diplomatic push to bring the Sunni kingdom into the Abraham Accords. The trip, which the State Department has...

Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi arrived in Riyadh on Monday night at the head of a 14-strong delegation, becoming the second minister from the Jewish state to make a visit to the Sunni Muslim...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Mike Pompeo believes that normalization between Jerusalem and Riyadh would be “more easily attainable with a Republican president.” Still, Pompeo, who has led both the CIA and the U.S. State Department, feels optimistic that the...