The Gulf nation is increasingly pursuing a "Saudi First" foreign policy, strengthening relations outside of its typical ...

Steven A. Cook is a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at ...

President-elect Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff visited Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and met Crown Prince Mohammed Bin ...

The decision to reward the corrupt regime with the honor of hosting the cherished tournament is one more instance of the ...

When Hafez al-Assad, an Alawite minority member, seized control of the Ba'ath Party in Syria in 1970, he faced a significant ...

The Saudi and Iranian militaries now appear to have a direct dialogue. Saudi Arabia’s armed forces visited Iran last month, which experts say was a deliberate change in strategy or at least a ...

Iran Air on Tuesday resumed flights between Mashhad in the northeast of the country and Dammam in Saudi Arabia after a nine ...

Those may include his maximum pressure approach to Iran, which saw Washington walk away from a nuclear deal with Tehran and impose severe sanctions. Saudi Arabia is still keen to capitalize on ...

Iran’s Minister of Agriculture, Gholamreza Nouri Ghezeljeh, announced plans to form a joint working group with Saudi Arabia ...

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry praised “positive steps” to prevent bloodshed in Syria amid a rapid rebel advance, and called ...

Riyadh will adopt the IAEA’s full safeguards this year, curbing its nuclear program amid concerns of potential arms race with ...

Qatar, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran have decried Israel’s seizure of land in Syria near the occupied Golan Heights as the ...