Saudi Crown Prince shifts strategy, leaning on Turkey and Qatar while Israel-US-UAE alliance strengthens.

As Washington recalibrates and regional powers realign, Riyadh pushes a vision that could redefine Middle Eastern geopolitics The pageantry on the South Lawn this week—military bands, rows of American ...

Despite many US inducements, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has turned away from normalization with Israel and broader US ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... When Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) arrives in Washington this week, he comes not as a reformer seeking American ...

If you were in Washington this week, you couldn’t have missed the extravagant welcome President Donald Trump gave Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS). From black horses and a military flyover ...

The clash of the two Gulf states has major implications for the Middle East. But it also affects East Africa and important ...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh on October 23, 2018. Credit - Fayez Nureldine—AFP/Getty Images In 2014 I ...

Beyond oil and defense, Saudi Arabia’s $2.5 trillion mineral wealth and global mining ambitions will be key discussion points in the meeting between Trump and MBS. Riyadh is turning PIF’s Manara ...

[T]he U.S. should seek to maintain a civil relationship with the Kingdom…. However, the relationship should be transactional, based on shared interests, not U.S. submissiveness. He wants MbS, as the ...

Riyadh was infuriated. It bombed the shipment, publicly accused the UAE of supporting the Yemeni faction’s offensive and called for Abu Dhabi to pull its remaining troops from the war-torn state. The ...