Saudi Arabia

This document was “leaked” on social media with an intentional mistranslation stating that Saudi military officers refused to deploy to Syria.

WASHINGTON — A company owned by a Saudi investor works on Air Force One and other VIP aircraft that fly Cabinet secretaries and other dignitaries around the world, USA TODAY has learned. GDC Technics has been servicing President Obama’s jet as a contractor for Boeing, according to the Air Force. This is the first time the Pentagon has acknowledged that […]

DUBAI and ANKARA — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Feb. 13 that Turkey and Saudi Arabia may join forces for ground operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL) in Syria. Although a senior Saudi military official said the Royal Saudi Air Force deployed fighter jets to the Incirlik Air Base in […]

(CNN) – Saudi Arabia launched a massive military exercise that will include troops from 20 nations, state media reported Monday. The drill, dubbed North Thunder, involves Arab and Muslim countries, according to the Saudi Press Agency. It’s taking place in King Khalid Military City in northeastern Saudi Arabia. The news agency did not provide much […]

Human Rights Watch released a report Sunday providing new indications that Saudi Arabia has fired American-made cluster munitions, banned by international treaty, in civilian areas of Yemen, and said their use may also violate United States law. The report included photographs from Yemen purporting to show unexploded but potentially lethal remnants of American cluster weapons, suggesting that they had failed legally required […]

Whether people want to believe it or not, Saudi Arabia basically serves as the unofficial caliphate at this time, if only for the simple fact that they control the Hajj.

From Reuters Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir on Monday held out the possibility of sending Saudi special forces into Syria as part of a U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State. “There is a discussion with regard to a ground force contingent, or a special forces contingent, to operate in Syria by this international U.S.-led coalition […]

Saudi Arabia has made no secret that they intend to do whatever they must to protect their people in the event that Iran obtains full nuclear capabilities. However, while they would not outright admit their own pursuit of nukes, it is apparent that they would have no choice but to go that route. The source […]

  MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said Thursday that the United States has asked more countries to send Special Operations troops to join the fight against the Islamic State, and not just typical partners like Britain and Australia. Carter did not name the countries, but said “there are states […]

This most recent flare-up in hostilities is shining a spotlight anew on the mostly clandestine conflict that has simmered between the two countries for years.

War between Iran and Saudi Arabia (or between the Sunni and Shia sects of Islam, more widely) benefits no one, and is thus unlikely, excepting the case of some egregious religious affront on the part of either side.

JCPOA provides the framework under which America will likely be able to keep Iran a non-nuclear power for at least the next 10-15 years